Featured image: The bleak alpine landscape of Jungfrau, Mönch and Eiger deep in a May afternoon, with the frozen waters of Bachalpsee in the foreground. The absence of people and the muted tones give the image an almost monochrome quality, despite being a colour photograph. In mid-May 2007, I spent a few days in Interlaken, […]
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Featured image: Sunset looking back towards Mallaig, with the low evening light dictating the mood and quiet power of the scene. 🌅 All photographs were taken using the Sigma DP1 with a 19mm lens, capturing natural colour, texture, and atmosphere with minimal interference. 📷 Tucked away on the rugged Knoydart peninsula, the tiny village of […]
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🚗 Driving the Atlantic Road (Atlanterhavsveien): How to Do It, With or Without a Car The Atlantic Road is one of Norway’s most celebrated drives, a short but dramatic stretch of highway that leaps between small islands and skerries on elegant bridges, with the North Atlantic crashing on either side. It’s often described as a […]
Continue reading The Atlantic Road: How to Do It, With or Without a CarHeritage Railways: UK vs USA — Same Romance, Very Different Models At first glance, heritage railways in the UK and the USA look similar: historic locomotives, period stations, volunteers in vintage uniforms, and a strong sense of nostalgia. But once you dig deeper, the culture, funding, scale, and accessibility of these railways are strikingly different. […]
Continue reading Heritage Railways…or a spectacular train you must plan your life around? 🚆🏔️ There’s something trains do that no other form of transport quite manages. They slow you down just enough to let the landscape unfold properly. Alaska, of all places, understands that instinctively. And yet, if your rail reference point is somewhere like Switzerland — where […]
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