Posts about Jo
Random things in March
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This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.
Train to Messina
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Clearing out a hard drive, I came across a file with some notes made whilst travelling in Sicily in 2009.
Fifteen years on
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Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of my first arrival in Scotland to meet the love of my life.
Ten years at Flickr
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A brief history of ten years using the online photo-sharing service Flickr.
Gwatt nature reserve, Thun
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I just came across a short film I made in January and posted to YouTube at the time. Filmed with my X100 and edited quickly in iMovie, it shows the publicly accessible lake-shore nature reserve at Gwatt, some fifteen minutes’ drive from home.
Big old hill
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One of the most challenging hikes I’ve done: up the steep and winding path through the forest from Beatenberg to the summit of the Niederhorn.
Hike to Steingletscher
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A long-held ambition fulfilled: to hike to my favourite glacier near the Susten Pass in Switzerland.
Review of 2013
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With surprising alacrity, it’s time to flick back through my digital album as we approach the end of 2013, and the end of another year behind the camera. Here are a few highlights; a larger set is on Flickr. My favourite memory of 2013, embodied in the lead photo of this blog post (above) is…
Six (and nine) years on
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If it weren’t for the fact that I have a lovely, daily reminder, it would be difficult to believe that it’s been nine years since I first met Jo in person. We’d started exchanging e-mails ten months earlier and I visited her and her parents in Scotland in October 2004, since when we’ve been together.…
The Thirteenth Country
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As we were so near the border when we visited Bavaria in October, we drove over into the Czech Republic to add the thirteenth country to the list of those I’ve visited. There’s not much in this region and in order to avoid paying a motorway toll – as we were only there for an…
Out of the blue
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Jo posed for me in the stairwell to an underground car park during last Sunday’s Swiss Strobist practical day, whilst I fiddled with the camera white balance to create an unusual effect.
Conquering Catbells
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It had long been a goal of Jo’s and mine to extend our walking and “bag” one of the Lakeland fells. However, we hadn’t anticipated doing so in quite such a challenging way.
Studio fun
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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.
Get Shorty
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A gallery of images from my journey to the U.K. and back in 2006, collecting Jo to bring her to live with me in Switzerland.
Waiting for Spring
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Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.
The eye of the beholder
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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.
Back in the studio
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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.
Schilthorn in the clouds
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Small gallery of photos from a 2005 summer trip to the Piz Gloria revolving mountain-top restaurant above Mürren, made famous by the 1969 James Bond Film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
