Eternal search for the perfect angle
Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.
Published on 14th April 2016
Blog posts about vaud
Romont from the Route de Bossens
Better lighting conditions can make a good landscape photograph great. Being in the right place at the right time is a skill which you can learn.
Published on 13th April 2016
The fishing villages on Lake Neuchâtel
Visiting lake shore villages in the French-speaking Romandie region of Switzerland feels like a little foreign holiday.
Published on 3rd April 2016
Aigle, Switzerland
The castle at Aigle, near the western end of the Valais, was originally two fortifications. It’s a picture-book scene, but harks back to serious use in the fifteenth century, when it was already over two hundred years old. Today, it…
Published on 11th July 2015
Cudrefin, Switzerland
Rain clouds gathering over the Jura mountains, before coursing down to Lake Neuchâtel, near the unofficial border between French- and German-speaking Switzerland.
Published on 26th June 2015
Puidoux, Switzerland
The views from the immense vineyards along the northern shore of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) are pretty spectacular, no matter what time of day. At dusk, in early summer, the lights of the town of Vevey and Montreux twinkle in…
Published on 28th May 2015
Provence, Switzerland
The Jura mountains, on the northern Swiss border with France, are well-known for rocky, forested gorges. But the range of mountains also slopes down into the Swiss Seeland (lake district) through meadows and villages, most of which afford spectacular southern-facing views to…
Published on 7th May 2015
Lausanne, Switzerland
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.
Published on 29th April 2015
At the heart of the Léman
Léman is the original (some would say “correct”) name for what most of the rest of the world knows as Lake Geneva. It’s one of the most varying beautiful and vibrant regions of Switzerland, with a seemingly endless range of…
Published on 16th March 2014
Everybody likes a pretty castle
Visiting the ridiculously picturesque castle and vineyards at Aigle, in the Rhone valley.
Published on 16th September 2013
Lake Neuchâtel
Almost perfect reflections in the still, expansive waters of Lake Neuchâtel, on the borders of cantons Vaud, Bern and Neuchâtel.
Published on 5th March 2013
La Sauge at Cudrefin
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.
Published on 5th March 2013
Wedding moment
A touching and unusual alternative to the wedding book; guests at a German-Swiss wedding present the couple with flowers and individual written notes of goodwill.
Published on 12th June 2011
High Above The Lake
Jo and my parents high above the shore of Lake Geneva.
Published on 25th April 2007
