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The winding and bumpy single-track mountain road leading to the hamlet of Applecross, on Scotland’s west coast, is quite a thrill.
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Brooke Shaden is a wonderfully creative photographer, whose images make me wish that I had the opportunity to spend more time on creating and editing more theatrical images. But I can’t complain; my time is, after all, spent on pursuing other passions and fascinating goals. One of the problems I came across when shooting for…
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Some people with whom I was at school were friends for many years thereafter, and some drifted into the distance as time moved on. Thanks to the rise of services like Facebook, some have popped up again many years later and I’m glad to be in touch with some of them again: albeit, sadly, on…
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Reknowned photographer Joe McNally ascends to the very top of the tallest man-made structure in the world… to say he’s been and to take some portraits while he’s there. Why just take a photo of the view when you can tell a story of the people that work there?
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Jo commented that the video I shot under windy conditions on Iona was remarkably steady. I did my best to hold the camera as steady as I could whilst filming, but the wind got the better of me and so the original film sequence is quite wobbly. The final version on YouTube, linked in this…
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My friends Yannick and Lea made another film last summer of an extended journey around the Jura mountains, on the northern edge of Switzerland and into France. It’s quite delightful and rounded off wonderfully by the music they’ve used, which they composed and produced themselves. I am envious of their talent, it must be said.
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I feel a new long-term photo project coming on…
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Photographer Nick Turpin straps a camera to his motorbike and shows just how hair-raising a drive through London can be.
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Talking of objects of desire… how about your own private “octocopter” for filming and for aerial photography? (This sequence filmed by facebook.com/FSAviationGmbh.)
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A song for the end of the world.
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The dry toboggan run at Pradaschier, in the southern Swiss alps, is touted as being the longest in Europe.
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Chris Moyles hosts his last radio show on BBC Radio 1 after 15 years with the station.
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An eight minute ride across the River Thames in London… by cable car.
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Swimming in the river at Bern in Switzerland.
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Photographer Nadav Kander talks about his portraiture in this 13 minute film.
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One of my favourite pieces of non-fiction film: an eight and a half minute sequence filmed by Claude Lelouch on the streets of Paris in 1976.
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Pro photographer Zack Arias is thrown down the challenge of taking street portraits using nothing but a point-and-shoot camera and an optically-triggered second flash gun. Zack’s ebullient approach and the results we see towards the end of the film show that photography isn’t about using really expensive equipment.
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I’ve seen many miniaturized time-lapse films over the past couple of years, but this is far and away my favourite thus far. By Keith Loutit (of course) and Jarbas Agnelli. Make sure you watch it all the way to the end.
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A timelapse sequence taken around close of service at the ferry port on the south coast of England, the night before we left for the continent and home.