Category Archives: Swiss Alps – Summer

Back to the Mountains

Posted on Mon, 9 December, 2019 by LensScaper

It’s the season of short days and long nights; time to work on the image archives. I’m busy preparing a new iteration of a talk about Alpine photography titled ‘High ‘n Wild with a Camera’ and in the process re-living … Continue reading →

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Line of Descent

Posted on Tue, 11 December, 2018 by LensScaper

Winter and shorter hours of daylight brings benefits, one is more time indoors to catch up on some long overdue processing, particularly B&W conversions. The three images in this post go back quite a few years, two of them to … Continue reading →

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Forest Walk

Posted on Wed, 5 September, 2018 by LensScaper

There are some walks that I never tire of walking. And this is one of them. A short uphill walk from Zermatt leads to a balcony walk – a traverse – a couple of hundred feet above the village. It’s … Continue reading →

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Water Grass

Posted on Wed, 29 August, 2018 by LensScaper

Where there are mountains there are likely to be lakes – large or small. The Zermatt valley is a classic example,  with a number of small lakes among the high mountains. Some are filled from glacial meltwater and are recently … Continue reading →

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Graveyard of a Glacier

Posted on Sun, 15 April, 2018 by LensScaper

A busy few weeks has meant a slowdown in images appearing on this blog. I’m still working my way through last summer’s collection of new images from the Alps, among other things. There have been two previous posts about the … Continue reading →

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The Forms of Ice

Posted on Tue, 24 October, 2017 by LensScaper

Three images today that were taken within a span of ten minutes on a high altitude walk that I have walked many times – and no two occasions have been the same. The first shows one of the remarkable sights … Continue reading →

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A shallow pool

Posted on Wed, 18 October, 2017 by LensScaper

As summer progresses and the snow melts, up high in the Alps, most melt water runs off down to the valley floors, but some remains trapped in shallow pools. This past summer, on days when there was no busting hurry, … Continue reading →

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Terminal Decline

Posted on Wed, 4 October, 2017 by LensScaper

On my recent holiday in the Swiss Alps I spent a considerable amount of time photographing the glaciers and, on one day, crossing two of them. This image is a small section of the last 100yds or so of the … Continue reading →

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Rock Strata

Posted on Thu, 21 September, 2017 by LensScaper

On the margins of the Gorner Glacier there are some extraordinary rock formations. Striped rocks, blue-grey alternating with shades of yellow, rippled and twisted – evidence of the colossal forces at work hundreds of millions of years ago that laid … Continue reading →

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The Great Reveal

Posted on Sun, 3 September, 2017 by LensScaper

Back from two weeks in the Swiss Alps and it’s time to start working  my way through over 1,300 new image files, plus iPhone images. That’s going to take some time! We were blessed with thirteen days of dry weather … Continue reading →

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