Posts about Jo

  • And so it begins

    First snows of the season, and a lake in the woods already frozen over.

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  • Random things in March

    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.

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  • Catania railway station in 2009

    Train to Messina

    Clearing out a hard drive, I came across a file with some notes made whilst travelling in Sicily in 2009.

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  • Things which draw my eye

    Nail-polish applied to the roots of a tree. Sure. Why not?

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  • Fifteen years on

    Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of my first arrival in Scotland to meet the love of my life.

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  • On Hound Tor

    Your author as a mysterious fictional character.

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  • Camera Obscura

    The “camera obscura” was the precursor to the modern camera.

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  • Ten years at Flickr

    A brief history of ten years using the online photo-sharing service Flickr.

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  • Gwatt nature reserve, Thun

    Gwatt nature reserve, Thun

    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.

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  • Big old hill

    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.

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  • Hike to Steingletscher

    A long-held ambition fulfilled: to hike to my favourite glacier near the Susten Pass in Switzerland.

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  • Review of 2013

    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

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  • Six (and nine) years on

    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.

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  • The Thirteenth Country

    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

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  • Out of the blue

    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.

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  • Conquering Catbells

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • Get Shorty

    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.

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