Hiking along a panoramic path above the lake at Oeschinensee and then over-doing it on a much steeper, rockier path on the way to the Blümlisalphütte.
Oeschinensee, Switzerland
One of the more spectacular mountain lakes in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland is at Oeschinensee, in a hanging valley easily reached by cable car from the town of Kandersteg. If you’re feeling lazy, then the walk to the lakeside restaurant is a fairly easy one. If you’re more adventurous, then there are a network of paths leading… (Read More)
Big Wide World is coming home
I started a website project in May, featuring the panoramic photographs I’m taking for an ongoing personal project I call Big Wide World. I designed the website from scratch and added new technology – like a map view and a better photographic list view – which I’d wanted to develop for a while. Unfortunately, time has proven that running… (Read More)
Gasterntal, Kandersteg
After so many years of driving up random little tracks and small roads in the Bernese Oberland, it’s rare to come across somewhere I’ve not been before. So when we decided to take a spontaneous trip out on Sunday, and found a little yellow line on the map leading south into the mountains from Kandersteg,… (Read More)
Look ma, no hands…
A video shot using my D7000 on a dry toboggan run, hand-held , whilst I was clinging on to the brake with the other hand.
Photo show in Hampshire, 30th June
I’ll be doing a presentation of Swiss landscape photography at Yateley Camera Club in Hampshire, England, on 30th June. Feel free to drop by if you’re in the area!
Summer afternoon at Oeschinensee
Jo and I visit the alpine lake of Oeschinensee, in a mountain valley above Kandersteg, and take a dip to cool ourselves off.
Walking on the Lake, Oeschinensee, Switzerland
The weather has been glorious today and, though we didn’t get going until a little later in the day, we spent the latter part of the afternoon riding the chair lift from Kandersteg to Oeschinensee, then walking through snowy forests to the side of the lake. It was a long walk along the sledge run,… (Read More)