Post series Photographic viewpoints in Switzerland
I love to travel and to find perfect photographic viewpoints and photogenic locations, which allow me to get ideally-composed, interesting photographs. Especially those which are a little off the beaten track, which are only usually visited by locals, or which haven’t been photographed thousands of times by tourists.
The blog posts grouped in this category contain details of such locations in Switzerland.
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.
The inevitably named High Bridge near Leuk in the upper reaches of canton Wallis in Switzerland; so named because of the depth of the gorge beneath it.
Looking on the map at the area on the eastern shores of Switzerland’s Lake Lugano, you’ll come across a small anomaly: the municipality of Campione d’Italia. The municipality, which is entirely surrounded by Switzerland’s territory, is tiny: little more than a village, a winding road clambering its way up a vertiginous cliff, and a section…
Jo and I took a drive up to Grindelwald last night to take some moonlit landscape photos. After an abortive attempt to head up to Bussalp–which saw us having to reverse back down a single track lane which got too narrow and way too steep to pass, after following the misguidance of Google Maps on…
The single track road from Stöckalp in the Melchtal valley up to the ski resort of Melchsee Frutt is… an experience.
