Cinque Terre – La Spezia
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 17th August 2019
Blog posts about street photography
The non-holiday holiday
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…
Published on 2nd April 2019
Cinque Terre – Vernazza
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 28th May 2018
Cinque Terre – Monterosso al Mare
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 27th May 2018
Yves’ observations
If you like observational photography – also known inaccurately as “street photography” – then Yves’ blog is worth following. It certainly makes me want to get out and spend time watching and waiting myself. Here are a few of…
Published on 29th July 2016
Freedom to take photos in public places under attack
The freedom to take photos in public places is under attack. Until now, in most countries in Europe you were safe to take and publish photographs that are taken from public ground: a law called “Freedom of Panorama”. When you’re on holiday,…
Published on 26th June 2015
In praise of rangefinder cameras
I first tried a rangefinder camera – one with a little glass window in the corner of the camera – back in 2007. I found an Olympus 35 RC at a camera fair for about Fr. 20 and tried…
Published on 8th March 2014
New Street Parade gallery added
On this grey weekend, I’ve continued with extensions to the website by adding a new gallery page for photos from Zurich’s Street Parade.
Published on 9th March 2013
Incomplete without consumerism
I spent a couple of days in London in June, primarily to spend time taking documentary photographs on the streets I used to pound when I lived in England. One of the things which strikes me is how so many…
Published on 29th September 2012
It’s not about the tool you use
Pro photographer Zack Arias is thrown down the challenge of taking street portraits using nothing but a point-and-shoot camera and an optically-triggered second flash gun. Zack’s ebullient approach and the results we see towards the end of the film…
Published on 22nd July 2012
Point and shoot (or as near as it gets)
Back at the end of 2010, I began a much-researched hunt for a new camera; the successor to the D80 which had served me well until then. As part of my research, I'd looked at small interchangeable lens cameras like…
Published on 8th February 2012
Zermatt’s Famous Goats
For six weeks in the summer every year, young children under the watchful eye of a more experienced adult lead the local half brown, half white goats through the streets of Zermatt twice a day.
Published on 5th August 2011
Interview in Czech photo blog Odcloneno
I was contacted a while back by the editor of Czech photo blog Odcloněno, Michal Fanta: Michal asked to interview me and use some of my photos on the blog. The interview was published this morning; here's the English transcript.
Published on 21st February 2011
Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX
My family were very generous at Christmas and for my birthday, by helping me to get some cash together to buy new camera equipment. Jo gave me the lens which has been top of my list for some time now,…
Published on 24th January 2011
A new tool for an old job
I decided over Christmas that 2011 would be the year that I would finally do something about getting the results I'm looking for in my street photography and candid, social event photography: in short, I would buy a new camera…
Published on 7th January 2011
Images Festival in Vevey
The Images Festival of Visual Arts is the only open air photographic festival in Switzerland, which takes place in the picturesque town of Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, every two years.
Published on 19th September 2010
Rain, Rain
Photos of various wetness around the city of Bern, as I head for the train station and home on a Friday night.
Published on 4th September 2009
Photography in the Swiss railway network
Written confirmation from the media relations team of the SBB/CFF/FFS that photography for private use in their railway stations is allowed and does not require a permit.
Published on 2nd September 2009
Police revise public guidance over street photography laws
London's Metropolitan Police has changed its public guidance on photography to reflect concerns raised by the National Union of Journalists.
Published on 31st July 2009
Street Scene, Tenby, Wales
A great moment as a family’s dog can barely contain himself on the way to the beach.
Published on 12th June 2009
It’s only a picture
As a photographer who travels a little and who likes to take photographs on the street of scenes and people interacting, I am fascinated by the huge amount of fuss which is being caused by the introduction of “Street View”…
Published on 24th March 2009
National Portrait Gallery, London, England
There’s always something about visiting the NPG. I am always driven ferociously to take photos instead of appreciating everyone else’s.
Published on 11th January 2009
The Scruffy Professor
Going against the “no photography” rules in the National Portrait Gallery, I simply had to ask this man to pose for a portrait. As we walked down the stairs together, he told me that he had stopped off in London…
Published on 13th February 2007
Stepping Stones
Published on 30th October 2006
