Blog posts about rain at Permanent Tourist

Often, it’s nature and not the camera which creates a photographic effect.

After some rushing around, I find myself on my own in Zurich for a couple of days. After dealing with the day job, I have the evening to myself, with no pressure and no responsibilities. Leaving work behind, I head for the old town and the anonymity of a familiar, traditional and noisy restaurant. The […]

Photos from a wet night-time walk from Tate Modern to Southwark, via London Bridge and Tower Bridge, in 2014.

A reminiscent photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which I only took because of a fortuitous London downpour.

Hiking in the rain along an unexpectedly steep route from the viewpoint above Interlaken.

The name “Giessbach” translates literally as “pouring stream”, and pour it does, magnificently and powerfully, when there is a lot of rain.

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A shorter hike up one of the Lakeland fells, at Ambleside.

When scouting destinations and views prior to my recent trip to London, I came across an potentially interesting-looking rooftop amongst some shots which photographer Ben Roberts, who I follow on Instagram, had shared on social media platforms. A quick question to find out where it is (and a nice friendly answer!) led me to the comparatively new […]

A panoramic view of Lac Léman from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic in Montreux.

A photo I took a year ago today reminds me to put down the lighting gear and head out with just a camera and a pair of comfortable shoes, to capture the light which needs no help.

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.

Jo and I take a walk through a misty Sunday afternoon to Faulensee.

Photos of various wetness around the city of Bern, as I head for the train station and home on a Friday night.

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Torrential rain has hit Switzerland in the worst storms since the heavy flooding experienced two years ago. Sirens sounded the alarm in several parts of the country on Wednesday evening and more than 100 people were evacuated from their homes as rivers and lakes came close to bursting their banks. […] In canton Bern, the […]

Posts about rain

Softness of the rain

The non-holiday holiday

Pounding London’s streets

Floodlit as in olden days

Harder to Roteflue

Giessbach Falls in spate

Loughrigg Fell

One New Change

Lac Léman at Montreux

Changing tack

Windswept

Glad I went, now

Rain, Rain

Briensermärt 2007

Switzerland hit for six by storms and floods