I was honoured to be invited to photograph a friend’s wedding last week. After a fair amount of preparation and thinking about how I wanted to photograph the wedding – bearing in mind it’s been a long time since I did so – everything went really well. The photos are currently sitting in a preview space online for the happy couple to view when they get back from a honeymoon in Scotland. This was the first wedding I’d been to where much of the congregation were German and it surprised me that the occasion was different to a British wedding in several ways. One of these was a particularly persona ..read more

The Rosengarten (Rose Garden) in Bern is high on the hill to the east of the city, with fantastic views across the Aare meander and the lower part of the old city. Although the roses are only just beginning to produce their first green shoots, the park area is well worth a visit already. It’s particularly nice to visit during the day in the current summer-like conditions, when many other visitors have yet to arrive. Read about today’s visit to the Rosengarten on the Best of Switzerland blog ..read more

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A panoramic view of the small, remote town of Malfa on the island of Salina. Jo and I spent our summer holiday amongst the Aeolian Islands and Sicily last May and one of my next personal albums will be a collection of the wonderful memories we have from the islands. A larger set of images is in my Flickr account ..read more

Spring flowers in bloom in the small copse near the house where I grew up ..read more

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May is a funny month for me. The countryside is green and lush, with lots of flowers in the meadows and a pleasant mix of cooling rain and warming sunshine, but I often feel a little frustration because the higher mountains are often still covered with slushy snow. This year, I’ve been spending a lot more time on my bike than hiking, and I really started clocking up the kilometres this month. Finding details in Faulensee Picturesque cycling at Aeschiried Watching the weather pass across Lake Thun Photographing the rhododendrons at Seleger Moor Dinner by the river in Lucerne Walking through ..read more

We travelled to western Switzerland last weekend, primarily to visit the small British supermarket in Gland and the tulip festival in Morges. Although the festival has been advertised and the tents and visitor facilities were already set up, the tulips were lamentably still a way from flowering, so I made do with photographing the daffodils and the beautifully subtle pink hue over Lac Léman at sunset ..read more

Until I moved to Switzerland, my interest in photography was mainly confined to recording what I was up to; from time with friends and family, to documentary photography on the streets of London and capturing scenes when I was on holiday. I had begun getting interested in landscape photography after a few visits to the ..read more

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