Posts about Switzerland
Switzerland, a quadrilingual country in the middle of Europe, has been my home since 2001.
“Let me go climb these virgin snows,Leave the dark stain of man behind.Let me adventure and heaven knows,Grateful shall be my quiet mind.” Jonathan Conville Jonathan Conville was originally from Odiham in Hampshire, near where I grew up.
The older I get, the more I come to recognize the way in which my photographs aid my memory. This is borne out by the way in which I can scroll back through my Lightroom catalogue of digital photos – currently topping 61,000 entries on two external hard drives, with more to be added from…
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.
Almost perfect reflections in the still, expansive waters of Lake Neuchâtel, on the borders of cantons Vaud, Bern and Neuchâtel.
Almost perfect reflections in the still water of La Sauge, as it drains into the expansive waters of Lake Neuchâtel, on the borders of cantons Vaud, Bern and Neuchâtel.
The time between sunset and complete darkness is known in photographic circles as “the blue hour”.
A small selection of panoramic images from Mürren in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
The alpine passes in early or late season offer a reminder to the untamed nature of the mountains.
A shot from a late autumn drive through the Jura mountains on the way home from Basel; one of many, many photos in a backlogged queue of shots I’d like to share.
Fans of Switzerland and train travel in the Alps shouldn’t miss a recent episode of Great Continental Railway Journeys by the BBC.
Local lake shipping company BLS now runs a daily ship service in the winter months.
The new, re-designed website is now online and is automatically optimized for visitors with iPads and smartphones. One of the aspects of the design is an improvement to how images in vertical format are displayed.
Barbara Hess organized the fourth in an annual series of studio days for this afternoon in Bern, Switzerland, to which anyone could come along and get a free portrait photo taken for their online profile pages. I took my X100 along for the afternoon and took photos “behind the scenes”, whilst Barbara and George Eberle did all the hard work.…
The dry toboggan run at Pradaschier, in the southern Swiss alps, is touted as being the longest in Europe.
I adore the way that the road curves around the boulder, how a single tree grows from the top of this boulder, how the road is cambered to lean cars into the centre of the bend, how there’s a small parking place next to a well in the middle of the hairpin, and how there…
The “other” village of Brienz, which we came across by chance when on holiday in Graubünden recently.
A small set of black and white landscape photographs, shot on an overcast day in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.
The date is out for AvatarDay 2012 in Bern, when you can get a free portrait taken by Barbara Hess.
When I read online that the road leading up into the mountains from Chur to Arosa was particularly windy, I scoffed, having ascended the mountain passes on many occasions.
Jo and I visited Graubünden (again) for our anniversary this year, and settled on the Hotel Seehof in Arosa.
Jo’s parents have been with us for the past couple of weeks and one of their requests was to visit First, the mountain area above the eastern side of the Grindelwald valley. To see the views, you might think? No. To feed their ornithological needs and visit the alpine choughs? No. To hang from a zip…
