Entries about Switzerland
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A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.
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Heading to the heights of the Furka Pass to hike into the glacial screes.
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Sitting on the steps outside one of the shops in Bern’s Marktgasse a couple of weeks ago, watching the world go by.
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May is a funny month for me. The countryside is green and lush, with lots of flowers in the meadows and a pleasant mix of cooling rain and warming sunshine, but I often feel a little frustration because the higher mountains are often still covered with slushy snow. This year, I’ve been spending a lot […]
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As the previous post for April went down well, I thought I’d work backwards and start adding a few new little galleries of photos to show what I’ve been up to each month. Here’s March 2022 in pictures.
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I was keen to do more winter hiking this year, and although winter seems to have flown by, I did manage to get out into the snow more often than in previous years. Most recently, we got the big cable-car up from Grindelwald to Eigergletscher with the intention of then getting the short train connection […]
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It’s easy for me to forget that I don’t need to “go somewhere” to enjoy a walk. I sit here and wonder where to go: which cable-car, which lakeside walk, which spectacular valley. This comes of having the great fortune to live within half-an-hour of some pretty wonderful places. But this commonly leads me to […]
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Walking in the snowy landscape of Axalp, high above Lake Brienz in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.
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I should’ve tried out my hiking microspikes before. They’re great for hiking when it’s icy.
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Catching the first train from Zermatt onto the mountain and photographing the most well-known peak in Switzerland.
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With so much to do and so many beautiful places to visit, the choice can sometimes be overwhelming.
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How to help a viewer to better understand the scale of a scene.
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A lunchtime walk by the vineyards in the sunshine, ten years after moving away from nearby.
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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.)
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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 […]
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My only cable-car trip into the high Alps this past winter season was in February. Webcam confirmation of a fabulous cloud inversion encouraged me to get into the mountains after a long abstinence. I expected the visit to be be a nerve-wracking experience thanks to so many people wearing their coronavirus face-masks around their chins, […]
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A pedestrian-only footpath through the woods and cliffs on the southern shore of Lake Brienz.
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I’m looking forward to the new cable-cars next year. I hope that they’ll have dirt-repellent, scratch-resistant windows. (Sequence filmed in February 2021.)
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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Finally got a tow bar fitted to the car, which means we can mount a bike rack, which means we can take our bikes further afield at last!
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The steamship “Spiez” – known colloquially and diminutively as “Das Spiezerli” thanks to its small size – en route from Thun to Interlaken for the first time after nearly five years of restoration work.
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The hike from Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg, high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland, is beautiful. But parts of the route are an absolute killer.
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Finally photographing a long-awaited evening view across Lausanne, thanks to getting the right angle with my drone.
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When the temperature of snow is above -10°C, it melts slightly when you crush it by walking on it. At temperatures below -10°C, the ice crystals are crushed, which makes a squeaking sound.
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The first part of my personal retrospective of a year which – to my eternal relief – wasn’t as bad on a personal level as it could easily have been.
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When the full (-ish) moon rises above Interlaken at this time of year, it always reminds me of a photo my Dad took in south Wales many years ago, where the reflection wasn’t on a lake but on the smooth surface of the sea off the coast of Freshwater East.
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Hiking along the milky Oberaarsee to the ice cave at the terminus of the Oberaar glacier.
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I bought a bike because it’s fun, it will improve my fitness rapidly – thereby helping me to get ready for hiking season – and because it means that I don’t have to rely on public transport or on my car for my daily trip to work and back. It also allows me to enjoy the local scenery more; getting me further more quickly than on foot.
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After many years, I’m back in the saddle with my own e-bike. And I’m loving it.
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I’m an introvert at the best of times, which comes in handy when needing to keep away from other people.
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For my first blog post in review of 2019, I decided to pick out a few of my favourite wintry photographs from last year in Switzerland, which show the kind of classical landscape photography I love.
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Using a website visitor’s browser settings to seamlessly display content in a language they can understand.
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British photographer and videographer Thomas Heaton visits three of my favourite locations in Switzerland.
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A quick tip on how to get better image results from your Mavic drone in low-light conditions.
