Posts about friends and family
The first set of photos from a portrait session in the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic in Montreux
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.
Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.
It was with a heavy heart that I had to let everyone know on Friday evening that after marrying her sweetheart Neil in a beautiful ceremony earlier in the afternoon, my younger sister Sarah, who had been suffering with cancer since last year, succumbed after contracting pneumonia last week and passed away shortly before 6…
After trying out the lighting technique I mentioned yesterday, of a large diffused light source right above the subject, I wanted to apply the technique to an outdoor location. When we set up the shots under cover in Interlaken (but outside), the first problem was that there were no suitably white walls to hand. If…
I learned an important lesson in portrait photography last weekend: that of how ready the subject is to see themselves in an honest and detailed image, when they may be seeing themselves this way for the first time.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in the studio and taken high contrast black and white portraits, so Jo helped me this evening to practice.
I dragged my family across a small island off the south coast of Pembrokeshire in South Wales in the rain to see a lighthouse. What a wretch I am.
A few snapshots from last night’s Choo Choo gig at the Wasserwerk club in Bern.
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.
Photos from an all-afternoon series of portrait sessions in Zurich during September 2009, finally online as a complete set.
Another in my series of One Frame Movie photographs, of Bernese video podcaster Manuel “Sprain” Reinhard.
An unplanned shot, taken of volunteer Niels for the One Frame Movie set of photographs I was working on a few weeks back.
The next in my series of theatrical photographs, featuring fellow photographer Tilman Jentzsch.
A photograph from a session in Zurich, and the lessons in lighting and technique which make it one of the more successful session shots of the past few months.
Another of my One Frame Movies, of friends Habi and Nina in the Nydegg area of the old city of Bern.
