2019 in review: Swiss winter landscapes
For my first blog post in review of 2019, I decided to pick out a few of my favourite wintry photographs from last year in Switzerland, which show the kind of classical landscape photography I love.
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The Lauberhorn flight
I visit the wintry mountain-top viewpoint at Männlichen, above Wengen and Grindelwald, to photograph the annual combined Patrouille Suisse/SWISS airliner air show.
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Blofeld’s Lair from the air
Filming and photographing at the mountain-top restaurant made famous by James Bond.
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Frozen lake at Corbières
Aerial video sequences of a frozen lake in the sunshine, near Fribourg in Switzerland.
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Grindelwald, December 2017
The best time to visit the mountain villages near our home is between the tourist seasons, when many hotels are closed and the valleys, cable cars and mountain cableways are much quieter. We drove up to Grindelwald shortly before Christmas, to visit the mountain restaurant at Schreckfeld, where deep snow and temperatures as low as […]
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A cold, cold afternoon
It had been a beautifully sunny start to the day, but by the time we’d driven up to Grindelwald, the clouds had taken over and the temperature had plummeted. We had to use a plastic loyalty card to scrape the ice from the inside of the cable car window, and the fondue at the mountain […]
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Heaven is this
Sitting, cross-legged, a couple of arms’ length from the edge of a two-and-a-half-thousand foot drop to the valley floor, watching clouds drift across the lake into the distance.
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The early bird and all that
I was half an hour early for an appointment at the Spiez council offices this morning, so I went for a brief stroll through the woods to the top of the vineyards while I was waiting. It was so peaceful, with fresh powdered snow slipping silently from the trees and only two or three other people there […]
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Schiltgrat to Mürren
A hair-raising sledge run – our first of this season – in the awe-inspiring Schilttal valley above Mürren.
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Below the water line
Low water levels in Lake Thun in winter reveal large expanses of foreshore.
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Riffelsee to Riffelalp, Zermatt
Before the proper snow arrived at the start of this year’s winter season, we visited Zermatt and visited the famous, much-photographed view of the Matterhorn from Riffelsee.
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Croick Estate, Scotland
A winter drive along a ten-mile single-track road in northern Scotland led to a remote church and a still, wet, beautiful landscape.
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Solothurn, Switzerland
Historic towns in Switzerland make the Christmas period especially magical for the photographer. In particular during the “blue hour”, between sunset and darkness.
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Mürren panoramas
A small selection of panoramic images from Mürren in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
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Away from the world
The alpine passes in early or late season offer a reminder to the untamed nature of the mountains.
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Winter season on Lake Thun
Local lake shipping company BLS now runs a daily ship service in the winter months.
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Upright and proud
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.
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The Way to Green Crag
I don’t usually bother celebrating my birthday in any great fashion, but as I turned forty this year, I decided to make an exception and plan a short break away with Jo, so that I could look back on the arrival of mid-life with some fondness. After some to-ing and fro-ing on a destination, I […]
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