Posts from the category Landscape photography
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.
A new view of a well-known scene
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It’s wonderful to find a new, photographically perfect viewpoint in a place I know so well. (Of course, on a day when I only had my smartphone with me.) Expect to see more shots from this spot in Grindelwald!
The view around the corner at Susten Pass
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Finding a magnificent view of a scene I know well, by going up a little road and turning a corner.
Photographing the Milky Way
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I’m certainly no stranger to long-exposure photography. But during the few years that we’ve lived in a flat with a balcony and an unobstructed view of the night sky, I’ve come to realise that I’d never photographed the Milky Way properly. The first time that I can even remember seeing the Milky Way at all was…
Eternal search for the perfect angle
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Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.
