Posts about Switzerland
Switzerland, a quadrilingual country in the middle of Europe, has been my home since 2001.
A long exposure photograph of Faulensee from the nearby marina, on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland.
A long exposure photograph of the Giessbach waterfall near Brienz in full torrent.
I return to the studio this weekend, to use full studio lighting for the first time in many years and share experience and ideas with a number of colleagues from the Swiss Strobist group.
The Schwellenmätteli is a restaurant built on the banks of the Aare river, beneath the Kirchenfeld bridge and the old city of Bern.
A gallery of images from my journey to the U.K. and back in 2006, collecting Jo to bring her to live with me in Switzerland.
Second image from a shoot in Bern, inspired by 1980 classic horror film “The Shining”.
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.
Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.
Shallow depth of field brings a special feeling to a photograph, altering scale and reality so it looks just a little unusual. By setting a wider aperture in your camera, the depth of field will become smaller and the areas nearer to and further away from the camera will be more and more out of…
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.
The first photo from a portrait session in the PROGR building in Bern, to which I will be returning from time to time as a new indoor location for my portrait and “theatrical” photography.
A snapshot from the crowd of Imogen Heap, a British singer-songwriter, performing live at Bee Flat in Bern on 10th March.
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.
