It has been a while……

It really has been too long a while since I had the confidence and focus to sit down again and write. To be forced to be inside because of the Covid pandemic is to have to opportunity to really have a closer look at the forms and details of what surrounds us at home, which …

Caer-r-r-dydd, Cymru! (Cardiff, Wales)

(English below)  Nid wyf wedi penderfynu ar hyn o bryd beth yw'r swydd hon mewn gwirionedd; ffotograffiaeth neu deithio ... felly ychydig o'r ddau ... Nid wyf erioed wedi bod yng Nghaerdydd ac eto trwy gydol fy mywyd, mae'r Gymraeg a Chymru wedi bod yn rhan o lawer o atgofion. Fy brwsh cyntaf gyda'r Gymraeg …

More Bokeh…

A beautiful sunny Sunday, Art Basel,  a small beer at the Volkshaus after Photo Basel...the perfect day! So... to recover from the slight disappointment of Photo Basel...camera set, lights, bokeh! A reposting but ah! the simple things you can do with a chair, some sun and shadows.  

Bokeh @ the Vitra

I have a love-hate relationship with my 50mm prime lens. Love, as it is small, light and incredibly fast to focus, hate because it means I need to use my feet to compose an image instead of zooming in and out with a telephoto lens as I am used to. I suppose it comes down to …

Bauhaus By Daylight…

The morning has come early today - bright, sunny, humid and already hot. I love the curves of the Bauhaus buildings in this neighborhood and am now discovering their elegant and graceful curves on buildings I have passed by a hundred times and never bothered to look up and notice. I also see that the …

White City, Tel Aviv תל-אביב

White City (העיר הלבנה‎‎, Ha-Ir ha-Levana, tel-aviv.gov.il/en/Pages/HomePage.aspx ) is a collection of over 4000(!) original white buildings built in a unique Bauhaus or International  Style in the very centre of Tel Aviv. Built in the 1930's by German-Jewish architects fleeing from Nazi persecution, White City became a UNESCO  world heritage site in 2003 as "an outstanding example of new …

Animal Farm – ‘Grun 80’

Today was the first really Spring-like day this year; sunny with deep contrasty shadows, warm enough to throw coats and caution to the wind, flowers popping their heads up everywhere you look. Just lovely! The perfect day to visit "Grun 80" or "Grun Achtzig" (parkimgruenen.ch)  - not far from home. Many years ago when I …

Alpenhorn Sunday

New Year's Day was glorious - a bright blue sky, sunshine and cold! Perfect for a walk around town with my dearest, followed by coffee by the fireplace at a favourite downtown cafe. Little did we expect the Marktplatz to be full of alpenhorn players getting ready to "ring" in 2017 with a blast! Alpenhorns …

Eccelston SQUARE

Yesterday was cold in London: frost on the top of cars and bright red mailboxes, commuters folded into their coats and thick scarves as they rushed to (delayed yet again) trains at Victoria Station. Only  a few streets away from all of this frenetic movement, there is a little oasis of calm and reflection locked …

“In Flow” – thanks Otto!

I "borrowed" (stole?) today's title from a photo blog that continues to have an important influence on me, and has raised some great questions and topics which have impacted the way I am learning to visually think about photography. The blog is called In Flow  by the talented Norwegian photographer Otto von Munchow. Highly reccommended for anyone …