Posts from the category Nature
The leaves have gone
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Fresh snow on the mountains almost down to the lake, and all of the leaves have gone from the local vineyards.
Burying a road for the sake of a neighbourhood
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Encasing a dual carriageway to provide a less polluted local environment in Zurich.
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.
Below the water line (again)
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Exceptionally low water levels at Lake Thun, as part of a four-year routine.
Not a waste of fruit
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Neighbours who worry about fruit, and nature which gets there first.
Funnels for non-existent rainwater
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I love that the pumpkin leaves are shaped like little funnels, to catch and redirect the rainwater. Now all we need is some rainwater.
Last of the swallows
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Last of the swallows for this year, I suspect. I haven’t seen them around much this year at home, but there were dozens out yesterday, feeding their young before their long journey. (We have a perfectly-positioned telephone wire near our balcony, so it’s a great spot to watch and to photograph them.)
Bluebells in Switzerland
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Until I moved to Switzerland, my interest in photography was mainly confined to recording what I was up to; from time with friends and family, to documentary photography on the streets of London and capturing scenes when I was on holiday. I had begun getting interested in landscape photography after a few visits to the
The winds from the south
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
The unstoppable loss
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Because the Aletsch glacier is inevitably melting so much, the adjacent mountain ridges are beginning to destabilize.
Below the water line
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Low water levels in Lake Thun in winter reveal large expanses of foreshore.
Gwatt nature reserve, Thun
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I just came across a short film I made in January and posted to YouTube at the time. Filmed with my X100 and edited quickly in iMovie, it shows the publicly accessible lake-shore nature reserve at Gwatt, some fifteen minutes’ drive from home.
Above the clouds
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The “Nebelmeer” (lit. sea of cloud) is a fabulous meteorological phonemenon at this time of year, caused by a band of dense cloud sealing cold air beneath it in alpine valleys.
