Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can't be much longer for this world.
Published on 26th August 2015
The Leviathan
Read more about this short film.
Published on 16th August 2015
Google Translate App
Mind: blown. The app isn’t anywhere near as snappy or as accurate as the “fun” promotional video would suggest, but it does optically recognize text in a foreign language of your choice and translate it live for you on your…
Published on 4th August 2015
Filming in the dark at 4,000,000 ISO
Canon's upcoming ME20F-SH can capture digital video at 4 million ISO. At a price.
Published on 31st July 2015
Terry Abraham’s wonderful outdoor films
Terry's videos make me want to turn off my computer and head for the British hills immediately: whether to a well-known place like the Lake District or to places which will be new to me.
Published on 23rd July 2015
Die Bergretter – Air Zermatt
Fast anderthalb Stunden in Begleitung der «Rotbiene»: der Rettungsdienst von Air Zermatt rund ums Matterhorn. Wenn ich mit 28 mit mehr Geld im Konto in die Schweiz gekommen wäre, wäre ich Helikopterpilot geworden. Weil meine Geschichte diesen Weg nicht folgte,…
Published on 19th July 2015
Science fiction, scary monsters and a know-it-all attitude
Doctor Who has been sending chills up my spine since I was a teenager. And the trailer for the next series looks as if it may be great. Although I agree with Thomas Capon: give the Daleks…
Published on 15th July 2015
Funky Kitchen Club website
Remembering my work in 2008 on Swiss t.v.'s Funky Kitchen Club.
Published on 10th July 2015
The Great Escape
A lovely idea from Graubünden Tourism. Set up an interactive video advertisement in Zürich’s main station, showing what a beautiful part of the Alps you could end up in by just getting on a train. Then invite passers-by to join you by…
Published on 29th June 2015
20 days in Antarctica
Kalle Ljung and his father spent 20 days sailing through Antarctica last winter. They took a GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition mounted on a DJI Phantom 2 Quadrocopter with them, and this is the wonderful, beautiful film they…
Published on 16th June 2015
Country Feedback
An absolute, all-time favourite. Filmed for Later… with Jools Holland in 1998.
Published on 11th May 2015
Giessbach Falls in spate
The name “Giessbach” translates literally as “pouring stream”, and pour it does, magnificently and powerfully, when there is a lot of rain.
Published on 6th May 2015
Helvellyn with Mark Richards
Helvellyn – the third highest peak in the English Lake District and therefore the third highest in England – has long been a goal of mine. The peak draws me much more than the higher Scafells, with a famous ascent…
Published on 26th April 2015
Adobe integrates panoramic stitching in Lightroom CC
Cooing over the lovely new panorama stitching function in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Published on 23rd April 2015
Welcome to London
A wonderful, high-resolution hyperlapse video of London by Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi.
Published on 8th April 2015
Secret Britain
A new BBC travel programme seeks out lesser-known spots in the British Isles, starting this evening.
Published on 8th April 2015
Stormscapes
A timelapse film of giant storms over the American Mid-West.
Published on 24th March 2015
The Grey League
Filmed in the beautiful South East regions of the Swiss alps, this film features many classic landscapes of the majestic country of Switzerland. We were based in one the oldest towns in Graubünden, Chur, with a trip into…
Published on 17th March 2015
The Quest for Inspiration
This is the trailer for “La Quête d’Inspiration”, a documentary film by Mathieu Le Lay about the experiences in the wilderness of French landscape photographer Alexandre Deschaumes. You can purchase the full-length film at Reelhouse.
Published on 1st March 2015
Mind The Gap
If you can watch this video to the end without a tear in your eye, then you are tougher than I. It has reached the official selection for the 2015 London Short Film Festival and is based on a true…
Published on 27th February 2015
Travel many roads on many islands
A lovely video of a journey on the Isle of Skye by StokedEverSince, posted to Vimeo by Calum Creasey.
Published on 28th November 2014
Race The Tube
Visitors to London may expect that travelling by Tube is quicker than going on foot. It’s certainly quicker than travelling through London by taxi or by car. But is the train actually quicker than this athlete?…
Published on 12th November 2014
Danny Macaskill on the Cuillin Ridgeline
“The Ridge” is the brand new film from mountain-biker Danny Macaskill. For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of…
Published on 15th October 2014
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
I'm not especially knowledgeable about aircraft but there's something about plane flypasts which give me goosebumps.
Published on 21st September 2014
Rear Window Timelapse
Compiled time-lapse sequence of the courtyard view from Hitchcock film “Rear Window”.
Published on 23rd August 2014
Cornwall Summer
Beautiful time-lapse films from the south west of England by Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi.
Published on 12th August 2014
Farnborough Air Show
The Red Arrows perform at the 2014 Farnborough Air Show.
Published on 21st July 2014
Jaw-dropping aerial views of Switzerland
A twenty minute film in association with Swiss Tourism, showing tremendous aerial views from around Switzerland.
Published on 1st July 2014
The photographic ad with no Photoshop
British photographer "Miss Anelia" produced surreal and highly-detailed fashion images to advertise the new Nikon D810, without the use of Photoshop.
Published on 27th June 2014
Parcours on the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern
Être Fort (“Be Strong”) parcours athlete Simon Gfeller crosses the Altenbergsteg bridge in Bern the hard way: by hand, across the underside of the iron framework.
Published on 24th June 2014
Mind-bending planetary panoramas
Seen plenty of time lapses involving star trails and motion effects? You won't have seen anything like this sequence by photographer Vincent Brady.
Published on 20th June 2014
Jemima’s Journey Through Switzerland
British Pathé was a leading news service in the earlier part of the twentieth century, when people would visit a picture house (or cinema) to see the latest news reels, instead of seeing them in the comfort of their…
Published on 18th April 2014
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
Winter street parades
If standing around in the street and drinking far too much whilst being bombarded with confetti, to the accompaniment of popular tunes being played by an inebriated brass band in eyeball-searing fancy dress doesn’t appeal, then there’s always an alternative…
Published on 10th March 2014
Grindelwald in the “good old days”
Travellers, historians and winter sport fanatics (and those of us who are less fanatic but still enjoy the mountains) will love this old film by Ronald Haines, shot in 1956 in the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald…
Published on 6th January 2014
Your 2013
It’s wasn’t just me who released a review of 2013 this week: Google has too. Their Zeitgeist film of 2013 shows what the world was looking for online this year.
Published on 17th December 2013
Filming from the air
Sitting at my computer this afternoon, I spot, out of the window, a yellow plane droning lazily around above the village. Not a full-sized plane but a metre-long radio-controlled model, with a GoPro camera attached, filming today’s glorious winter…
Published on 15th December 2013
Pale Blue Eyes
An excerpt from photographer Laura Levine's unreleased underground Super-8 film, Just Like A Movie, featuring Michael Stipe.
Published on 8th November 2013
Dreaming of flight
…and where better to realize a childhood dream than in the Swiss Bernese Oberland? U.K. band Rudimental chose to film a large amount of the video for their recent release “Free” (featuring Emili Sandé) in the Alps of the…
Published on 29th October 2013
A Perfect Day
I like it when there is a lot of contrast between subjects in an image or film, or conflicting imagery vs. mood. Such as in the case of this recent advert for the Playstation games console, in which “participants” in…
Published on 17th October 2013