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Tag Archives: Photography
Table Talk
What goes on above one’s head is often missed. And when I see something like this, there’s always that little niggle that wonders if one of them will look down and see me pointing my camera up at them. These … Continue reading
Window art
Previously I posted an image of the stark exterior of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne (click here to view it). If you were to turn around and view the opposite side of the road then there is likely be something … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Scultpure
Tagged Eastbourne College, Photography, Towner Gallery, window art
6 Comments
An intruder in the snow-scape
To ski down you have to travel up. One of the ski areas above Zermatt is served by the Gornergrat cog railway that terminates at Gornergrat – a place that has featured repeatedly in my posts. From there the skier … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Photography, Ski, skiing, Zermatt
3 Comments
Sculpted
This image follows on from my previous post – Click here to view. Glaciers look totally different in summer from what they do in winter. This is the Gorner glacier (2,000ft below me) clad in its winter cloak of snow … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Crevasses, Gorner Glacier, Gornergrat, Photography, Winter snow
12 Comments
Specks of Humanity
One of the difficulties I face as a photographer, who also skis, is how to portray the vastness of the mountain-scape through which we travel. One of the answers is to include fellow adventurers in the image. When fellow skiers … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Black and White Photography, Gorner Glacier, Gornergrat, Gornergrat Bahn, Photography, Ski Touring
11 Comments
Half buried but alive
Winter is tough when for several months you are half buried in snow, but the coniferous trees of the Alps are used to it and they do indeed survive. This image was taken within a minute or two of the … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Minimalism, Photography, Schwarzsee, Ski, skiing, Skiing with a camera, Stafelalp, Zermatt
13 Comments
Matterhorn North Face
Skiing is the fastest way to move around the mountains, and it can get you to places that would take two or three hours to walk to. This is one of my favourite places in the Zermatt valley – Stafelalp, … Continue reading
Posted in Skiing - Zermatt
Tagged Black and White Photography, Matterhorn, Photography, Schwarzsee, Ski, skiing, Stafelalp, Zermatt
26 Comments
Turn and turn again
I’ve just back from a week’s skiing with a new clutch of images that I am slowly working through. However, this panel of four was taken in a previous year. Skiing is a very dynamic sport – athletic, fast-paced, aggressive … Continue reading
Alpine monochromes
When I first started visiting the Alps fifty-five years ago, much of the photography that was on view in shop windows and on postcards was in black and white. The images had a starkness about them, the absence of colour … Continue reading
Posted in MountainScape
Tagged Aiguille du Midi, Alpinism, Black and White Photography, Breithorn, La Vallee Blanche, Photography
16 Comments
Seven Sisters from Seaford Head
A couple of days after Christmas I re-visited this classic view of the Seven Sisters cliffs with my son. This must be the third or fourth year in a row that we have used a fine day just after Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in Coast
Tagged Alpine Glow, Birling Gap, Cuckmere Haven, Photography, Seaford, Seaford Head, Seven Sisters
19 Comments