Permanent Tourist

WordPress development and photography by Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about project

  • I am continually on the lookout for interesting and characterful places to use in my photography and I am compiling a list of possible locations, to which I can return in the future and use in my photography.

  • Both we at Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia and our client were delighted to find out earlier this week that the website gene-abc.ch, which we re-developed and re-launched during 2009, has received a place in the annual awards given by Anthrazit magazine here in Switzerland for the “Best 200 Swiss Websites of the Year”.

  • 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.

  • Au Voleur*

    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.

  • In the Old City

    Another of my One Frame Movies, of friends Habi and Nina in the Nydegg area of the old city of Bern.

  • Iron Mauro

    The next in the series of One Frame Movie shots which I’m cramming into this and next week is of a colleague from work: Mauro (also known on Twitter as @ironmauro).

  • The newest version of the newspaper, to which I still subscribe online despite no longer working or living in the catchment area, produced by a small handful of people and covering purely local news instead of falling to the temptation of reporting news from more distant regions, is at least a match for – if…

  • Details of the new website for Swiss national historic location Rütli, combined with a brief explanation of the meadow’s history.

  • As part of the Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia team, I have been working closely with the organizers of the first SOMESSO Corporate Social Media Conference which is taking place in Rüschlikon on Friday this week.

  • The Switzerland-based photographic community book project “Swiss Peeks – Switzerland Through Your Eyes” was retired at the beginning of October 2008. The three issues published between 2007 and 2008 will remain available for purchase in the Blurb online bookstore, but will no longer be actively promoted by an editorial team. The Flickr group and website…

  • A Bern Adventure

    My recent purchase of my own “travel card” – namely, the Swiss national travel pass – will allow me to travel across the whole of Bern, photographing all of the tram stops in the BernMobil network.

  • We were in Thun this past weekend, with a couple of friends from Zürich who’d come down for a day of “strobism” (the art of non-studio-based photography using portable flash units for illumination). As well as locations in Spiez and Gwatt, we sneaked into the dilapidated Selve area in Thun, where old factories, once converted…