Blog posts about festival at Permanent Tourist

The latest in a alphabetic series on aspects of my life: this time, the letter F is inspired by this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival.

My first non-personal book is available for preview and purchase in my Blurb online bookstore.

The photos in this series are now available to order as a book, via www.blurb.com/books/3473838. Read more on my website at permanenttourist.ch/blog/2012/02/parade-of-fire/. All of the images in this series are copyright protected. Please read the terms of use on my website. Alle Bilder in dieser Serie sind copyrightgeschützt. Lesen Sie bitte die Anwendungsbedingungen auf meiner […]

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I was at the Street Parade dance festival on the streets of Zurich again this past weekend. This first set of photos shows some of the participants of the floats, as they wait patiently to take their position in the parade which leads through the centre of the city.

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The Fire Festival in Signau, a small area in the Emmental valley, is a Swiss folk and artistic festival; a smaller equivalent of Burning Man in the U.S. My friend and independent filmmaker Yannick de Zordo – who plays bass guitar for Choo Choo and who produced the great video for their song “We Go” […]

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The Hall of Mirrors at the Cannstatt Volksfestival in Stuttgart. (Before lunch.)

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The Images Festival of Visual Arts is the only open air photographic festival in Switzerland, which takes place in the picturesque town of Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, every two years.

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A panoramic band shot with a difference and a story… permanenttourist.ch/articles/2009/08/the-cosmic-sausages/

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The annual techno- and rave parade through the streets of Zürich, Switzerland.

A quick upload from this evening’s street performance festival in Bern to keep you going until Sunday. I have a few more pretty good shots which I shot with a 17-55mm/f2.8 Nikkor lens on my D80. I’ve rented the lens for tomorrow’s Street Parade in Zürich and based on tonight’s results, I hope to get […]

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A gallery from the 2005 techno- and rave parade through the streets of Zürich, Switzerland.

The Seenachtsfest took place last weekend in Spiez, so Jo and I headed up with our friend Beat to the vineyards near our home, where there is a commanding view across the castle, lake and surrounding mountains.

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As is pretty common for me, I have once again decided to shift things around here at Permanent Tourist.