Posts about winter
Frozen lake at Corbières
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Aerial video sequences of a frozen lake in the sunshine, near Fribourg in Switzerland.
Grindelwald, December 2017
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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
A cold, cold afternoon
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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
Heaven is this
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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.
The early bird and all that
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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
Schiltgrat to Mürren
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A hair-raising sledge run – our first of this season – in the awe-inspiring Schilttal valley above Mürren.
Below the water line
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Low water levels in Lake Thun in winter reveal large expanses of foreshore.
Riffelsee to Riffelalp, Zermatt
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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.
Croick Estate, Scotland
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A winter drive along a ten-mile single-track road in northern Scotland led to a remote church and a still, wet, beautiful landscape.
Solothurn, Switzerland
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Historic towns in Switzerland make the Christmas period especially magical for the photographer. In particular during the “blue hour”, between sunset and darkness.
Mürren panoramas
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A small selection of panoramic images from Mürren in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland.
Away from the world
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The alpine passes in early or late season offer a reminder to the untamed nature of the mountains.
Winter season on Lake Thun
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Local lake shipping company BLS now runs a daily ship service in the winter months.
Upright and proud
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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.
The Way to Green Crag
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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
Thunersee below zero
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When the temperature of the air is markedly lower than the temperature of the water in the lake, mist rises from the surface and creates a truly eerie effect. Such was the case today, when continued winter conditions in Switzerland dropped the air temperature to -16°C. You can see more of my Thunersee photos here
