Posts from the category Video

  • The Matterhorn is now yours alone

    The Matterhorn is now yours alone

    Behind the scenes of filming sequences for an advert filmed by Swiss cinematographer Noah Malin, beginning with a challenging hike to the Hörnli Hut and then some dramatic drone sequences around and above the summit of the Matterhorn. The film makers were alone on the hike and at the hut, and were able to fly

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  • Rivaz in winter

    Rivaz in winter

    Short drone video sequences from the UNESCO World Heritage site near Vevey in Switzerland.

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  • Far From Saints

    Far From Saints

    Discovering an alternative band co-formed by Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones.

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  • Winter walking

    Winter walking

    Walking isn’t about expansive vistas and big mountains, but the intricacies and moments of the place in which you find yourself.

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  • 2019 in the air

    2019 in the air

    Years of photography and drone flying have filled my archives with memories. This short film combines some of my best 2019 clips from Switzerland, Wales, and England.

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  • Oronsay Island

    Oronsay Island

    A picturesque dog walk to the tidal island of Oronsay, off the coast of the Isle of Skye.

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  • 83,000 photos of London

    83,000 photos of London

    A photography team has put together a mesmerizing flow motion timelapse of London, deploying novel techniques to tell the story of the U.K. capital.

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  • Do what you love for the happiness it brings

    Enjoying the things which make you happy in the time you have available.

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  • Beauty in the Melancholy

    Beauty in the Melancholy

    I used to avoid Radiohead back in the 1990s, because my youthful inexperience made me think their songs were miserable. I’m so glad that I’ve grown up to hear the beauty in the melancholy.

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  • The Rail Replacement Helicopter

    The Rail Replacement Helicopter

    We’ve all heard of the dreaded “Rail Replacement Bus”. But what if we had Rail Replacement Helicopters instead?

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  • Pissing the night away

    Pissing the night away

    Remembering Luke the alcoholic.

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  • Part of the Grand Bisse d'Ayent irrigation system

    Random things in July 2023

    Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.

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  • Random things in June 2023

    Random things in June 2023

    Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.

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  • The Ice Path in summer

    The Ice Path in summer

    With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.

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  • Driving to the coast

    Driving to the coast

    This music video by Bayview Sounds for their song “Home Alone” is very evocative of my trips to the northern and eastern Scottish coasts, with sea haar and low sun whilst driving along narrow roads. (The video was actually filmed in the far northern Scottish county of Caithness, which feels like the end of the

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  • Miniature Swiss tank school

    Miniature Swiss tank school

    Using 1970s technology to drive a tank through a miniature landscape.

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  • Wall of sound

    Wall of sound

    I remember seeing Oasis early in their career when they played a Sunday afternoon slot on the subsidiary NME stage at Glastonbury Festival in 1994. The indelible memory is the sheer wall of sound coming from the stage, even then, before they released Definitely Maybe. Two years later, they played two legendary sets at Knebworth.

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  • Axalp in the snow

    Axalp in the snow

    Walking in the snowy landscape of Axalp, high above Lake Brienz in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.

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