Posts about Bern

“Bern” (or “Berne” in French and historically in English) is the federal capital city of Switzerland, as well as the name of the canton which contains the city.

  • Schwellenmätteli, Bern

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

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  • Köniz, Bern, Switzerland

    Photographed from the viewing tower on the hill at Gurten.

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  • Gimme! Gimme!

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  • Come Play With Us, Danny

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

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  • Trapped

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  • Waiting for Spring

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

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  • 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.

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  • Imogen Heap in Bern

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

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  • Looking for location suggestions

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar

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

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

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  • Bern band Choo Choo celebrate 15 years of their record company this weekend with a gig at the Wasserwerk Club, and they select one of my photos to appear in national Swiss commuter paper 20 Minuten.

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  • An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.

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  • SprainTV – The Movie

    Another in my series of One Frame Movie photographs, of Bernese video podcaster Manuel “Sprain” Reinhard.

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  • The Bear Incident

    Last weekend, reports quickly appeared on Twitter and Facebook, and thence to the local and international press, that a member of the public had apparently jumped over the fence into the new bear enclosure alongside the river Aare in Bern.

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  • On the rails again

    After a fairly long break, I returned to my major photographic project recently, which takes me across the whole of the city of Bern on a quest to photograph all 219 of the tram and bus stops of the Bernmobil network.

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