Blog posts about sunset at Permanent Tourist

Using a drone isn’t all about “aerial photography”, but, for me, about the ability to get better angles for photos which are otherwise out of reach.

Sunsets in the mountains are different from those over flatter landscapes.

We recently spent a lovely couple of weeks on holiday, touring the south of England and spending a full week in Cornwall. On arrival at the self-catering cottage we’d booked, we chose to make things easy for ourselves and head to the Port William Inn for a pub dinner in one of the few buildings at the seaward […]

The Niesen casts a clearly triangular shadow when the sun is low in the sky.

Evening light on the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau

We are ever grateful for the opportunity to live in such a beautiful country. For the luck which means that we are of sufficient means to decide, based on a weather forecast, to drive for fifteen minutes and ascend in a rattling funicular cabin to a place which feels like the top of the world. All to […]

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Locals and photographers alike gather on the hill near Lausanne’s cathedral to watch – and photograph – the summer sunsets. The northern shore of Lac Léman is one of the best places in the country from which to photograph the sunset.

Ask anyone who knows me well, and they’ll probably be familiar with me excusing myself during dinner to step out and photograph the sunset.

A view of the lake shore at the tiny mountain village of Melchsee Frutt in canton Obwalden, Switzerland.

A photo from 1998 of the ruined West Pier in Brighton, on the south coast of England.

Photographed from the viewing tower on the hill at Gurten.

I’ve been meaning to spend a little time to sit down and really get to grips with the High Dynamic Range editing process. For the unititiated, the HDR is a photo which contains detail within a much wider range of tones than is possible through an individual shot, from deep shadows to bright highlights.

A view at sunset of the low-lying area of Bern called “Marzili”.

An outtake from a photo shoot with a friend this weekend; Jo and Katrin on the shores of Lake Thun at Neuhaus, near Interlaken.

A tremendously colourful winter sunset in Brienz, where I used to work, looking from the small tourist village along the lake to Interlaken.

Continuing in the series of individual photos along the Thames which I took in 1999 for a City and Guilds photo course.

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Thoughts of our upcoming late Spring holiday to the Aeolian Islands, off the coast of Sicily, have inspired me to have a flick through last year’s holiday shots.

I was lucky enough to be able to arrange a trip to an iconic London landmark through a contact I made at a media conference in 2008.

As office workers and shop girls sway home from the city on the dusty local train, the sun reaches out orange tendrils of light. Plucking ineffectually at the clouds, trying desperately to gain purchase, it sinks inexorably in the rolling landscape before the clouds catch fire and shadow overwhelms its realm. The death is ferocious: […]

I am inspired once more to pull my finger out and start putting photographic books together. One of them will be a series of shots of the Niesen, which I see as this view every day from our sitting room window.

This was one of the most challenging shots of our trip to Italy. Making my way through the crowded upper deck on a fast, bouncing boat travelling over rough seas, to make it down the rearward-facing steps and onto the small platform at the rear of the boat, above the engines. Wedging myself into the […]

Posts about sunset

Using a drone subtly

Abrupt sunsets

Trebarwith Strand

In the shadow of the giants

The luck and beauty of life

Lausanne, Switzerland

Evening Cruise

Summer in the mountains

West Pier, Brighton

Köniz, Bern, Switzerland

Experiments in HDR

Marzili, Bern, Switzerland

Outtake

Winter Sunset

Millennium Dome, London

Leaving Capri

“The Gherkin”, London, England

A Sun, Drowning

Sunset, Spiez, Switzerland

Leaving Capri, Italy