Posts about Bern (Berne)

“Bern” (or “Berne” in French) is the federal capital city of Switzerland, as well as the canton containing the city.

  • After two and a half years with the Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia team in Bern, I’ve decided to return to my roots as a programmer and technical developer and I’m moving across town to work for web agency !frappant from 1st April 2011.

  • Simply Yannick

    A portrait of a friend and work colleague, shot for a work project earlier this week.

  • A recent blog post by a fellow Brit resident in Switzerland prompted me to head out into Bern. My goal for the lunchtime trip was a university building to the north of the railway tracks; a blue-painted building in the style common throughout the city, which dates to the end of the nineteenth century and…

  • I watched the trailer for the fifth version of driving simulation software Gran Turismo with great interest, when I saw that there are segments of the film containing computer-generated sections of the historic city of Bern.

  • I’ve been going through my website recently to tidy up some of the older archived articles and came across this collage of the desk where I worked in Brienz until 2008. Since then, I’ve been working in Bern and I decided that about time I took a new collage of photos here too.

  • Photos from my day in the studio with the Swiss Strobist group.

  • A stern portrait of a fun guy and friend at last weekend’s studio meetup near Bern.

  • Studio fun

    I return to the studio this weekend, to use full studio lighting for the first time in many years and share experience and ideas with a number of colleagues from the Swiss Strobist group.

  • The Schwellenmätteli is a restaurant built on the banks of the Aare river, beneath the Kirchenfeld bridge and the old city of Bern.

  • Photographed from the viewing tower on the hill at Gurten.

  • Gimme! Gimme!

  • Second image from a shoot in Bern, inspired by 1980 classic horror film “The Shining”.

  • Trapped

  • Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.

  • Skylight

    The first photo from a portrait session in the PROGR building in Bern, to which I will be returning from time to time as a new indoor location for my portrait and “theatrical” photography.

  • A snapshot from the crowd of Imogen Heap, a British singer-songwriter, performing live at Bee Flat in Bern on 10th March.

  • I am continually on the lookout for interesting and characterful places to use in my photography and I am compiling a list of possible locations, to which I can return in the future and use in my photography.

  • Sulgenbach Park, Bern

    One of my favourite finds during my lunchtime walks around the city of Bern, this park is a haven of quiet and surrounded by a mix of views and architecture from the earlier part of the 20th century and onwards.

  • It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.

  • A few snapshots from last night’s Choo Choo gig at the Wasserwerk club in Bern.