Posts from the category Landscape photography
Reflecting on a reflection
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When I was in my mid 20s and living in England, I used to be a member of the local camera club. Wanting to learn and improve my photography, my lens often turned to subjects which were likely to do well in camera club competitions. The first one I ever got full marks for was
The right place at the right time
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So much of landscape photography is being in the right place at the right time. Although images and scenes like this are promoted as being a sign of the photographer’s skill, that’s only the case if the image needs to be heavily manipulated. This was pretty much one-to-one what this field looked like, just as
Finding another perfect spot
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Doggedly looking for the millimetre-precise best viewpoint of the Lauterbrunnen Valley from Wengen.
When the iPhone is better than the camera
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When an iPhone photo beats a combination of camera and lens and tripod.
Spring snow
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We had some late snow just recently and although it was lovely to look at, the temperatures were brought down. I’m done with winter and cold, now. I want the mountains to clear so I can get out walking again.
The Grimsel Snake
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A dramatic cloud formation in the mountain region between cantons Bern and Wallis
Too early for tulips
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We travelled to western Switzerland last weekend, primarily to visit the small British supermarket in Gland and the tulip festival in Morges. Although the festival has been advertised and the tents and visitor facilities were already set up, the tulips were lamentably still a way from flowering, so I made do with photographing the daffodils
The Belt of Venus
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Before dawn in autumn and winter on a clear day, where there is moisture or minutely-fine dust in the air, early risers get to see the Belt of Venus. The pink colouration at around 10°-20° above the horizon is caused by the scattered, reflected light of the sun hitting minute dust particles in the west,
The unstoppable loss
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Because the Aletsch glacier is inevitably melting so much, the adjacent mountain ridges are beginning to destabilize.
The pleasure is in the process
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What I get out of taking the time and effort to take landscape images with a proper camera, and printing them to make proper photographs you can hold in your hand.
