Summits from central casting
131 photos
Mountains mainly Switzerland but occasionally "altogether elsewhere" ...
Explore
351 photos
Images that struck lucky with the mighty Flickr algorithm....
Art of the SSUSY*
66 photos
*A SSUSY is a Swiss Super-Symmetry Situation, comprising top charm, bottom charm, a whiff of strangeness, and a quantum of chromodynamics too....
Horu show
95 photos
A mountain easily identified on the map as Point 4478m, a few kilometres southwest of Zermatt ....
Monochrome
107 photos
Or thereabouts
Nihon Hyakumeizan
25 photos
or One Hundred Mountains of Japan (just a few of them here)
Arete
4 photos
On and around the Dent du Geant and the Rochefort arete, Mt Blanc region, France.
Ice gardens
89 photos
In praise of vanishing glaciers
Expedition to the Oberland
18 photos
East to west across the Bernese Oberland
Inspection of the Lyskamm
10 photos
Actually, photos from several inspections, failed and successful...
Arctic dreams*
31 photos
Mountains at the world's end
*and one or two Antarctic ones too
Backstory: An expotition to Greenland
Snowscapes
23 photos
A matter of white balance...
Works outing
7 photos
Excursions with the mountaineers of The Firm
Alpines
23 photos
Small friends, brief summer, short lives,
Figures in a landscape
131 photos
Friends who look their best in a mountain setting.
Panoramas
23 photos
Taking the wide view
Ah, Scala
10 photos
The strikingness of black-and-white slides
Inspection of Mt Dolent
4 photos
Excursion on the triple frontier of Switzerland, France and Italy
OBO*
72 photos
*Ode to the Berner Oberland
F***
245 photos
Some people might be shocked that people once took photos like this - which is why the asterisks are used here - but there was a time when mountain images could only be made on the medium of f*** ....
Summit crosses & company
10 photos
Types and symbols of eternity from around the world
The last roll of Kodachrome...
1 photo
... in Switzerland
Et in Arcadia ego
8 photos
Autumn excursions to Zermatt
Mt Blanc
7 photos
On and around
Iceland
3 photos
Visiting the hog heaven of landscape photography
Sogni Ticinesi
26 photos
In and around Ticino, Switzerland
Equivalents
10 photos
The secret ministrations of cirrus. For the original "Equivalents", see this website: www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/...
postmodernism
3 photos
The faded charm...
16 photos
... of old Kodachrome
In praise of the P50
69 photos
No longer quite Coolpix ... and yet. The discreet charm of a hopelessly outdated 8MP Nikon digital compact....
Viva Grischa!
103 photos
How easy it is to let Graubünden grow on you ....
Der Weg ist das Tward(ziel)
6 photos
Dubious weather, sundry droogs in a big landscape. Twardziel? Look it up in your Polish dictionary....
Weather or not
30 photos
Inevitable sunsets 'n stuff
Inspection of the Wannenhorn
11 photos
Alpinists A + B + a Mountain from Central Casting ....
Clariden
13 photos
Flocks of birds have flown away
A solitary cloud has drifted onwards
And I sit alone with the Ching-ting Peak towering beyond
We never grow tired of each other, the mountain and I.
- Li Po
Another day in Glarus
47 photos
Sylvan
2 photos
From the Val Susauna
Dlim vs figitla
28 photos
Pointless yet entertaining comparisons between different photographic media deployed in the same place at the same time...
Föhn call
42 photos
Artistry of the south wind
It's geology...
12 photos
... but is it Art?
Derborence
9 photos
Where the mountain fell
Inspection of the Fondei
12 photos
Winter comes early....
Inspection of the Wildgärst
1 photo
On a spring day in the Bernese Oberland
Meditations on the Mythen
9 photos
Inspections of the Finsteraarhorn
5 photos
Ski-tours then and now
Inspection of the Cristallina
11 photos
Inspection of the Bluemberg
5 photos
Inspection of the Bifertenstock
5 photos
Grimsel autumn
1 photo
The landscape within
Inspection of the Val Susauna
4 photos
Inspection of the Helgenhorn
4 photos
Inspection of the Alpstein
17 photos
Inspection of the Mischabel
6 photos
Again to our local 4,000ers...
The Great Aletsch Glacier
11 photos
An ice-stream from central casting
In the matter of Mt Fuji
2 photos
Meizan of Meizan: the obsessive cone in all seasons
Tales of the Genjiro
1 photo
Snow ridge climbing in the Japan Northern Alps
Backstory: Tales of the Genjiro
Sawa of light
1 photo
Akagi-sawa, Japan Northern Alps
Crack babies
2 photos
Climbing in Takidani, Japan Northern Alps
On Kita-dake Buttress
1 photo
A classic ridge route on Japan's second highest mountain.
In the matter of the Gauli
2 photos
A visit to Switzerland's Arctic
Inspection of the Mutteristock
1 photo
Our local mountain
Inspection of the Bristen
2 photos
Beguilements of the Bachalpsee
32 photos
In the Berner Oberland when the föhn calls ...
Inspection of the Windgällen
3 photos
A most famous mountain of Canton Uri
Inspection of the Gran Paradiso
6 photos
On Italy's highest top
Inspection of the Gross Spannort
1 photo
A perfect mountain day
Inspection of the Ankebälli
2 photos
Ski-tour to the icy heart of the Gauli region
Inspection of the Gauli
3 photos
The closest you can get to Greenland in the Bernese Oberland....
Sopra Fusio
1 photo
Ski-tour at the turn of the century
Inspection of the Grand Muveran
2 photos
Foray into the Valais
Inspection of the Galenstock
4 photos
Inspection of the Silberen
3 photos
The Mountain of the Muothatal
Haloes
6 photos
Atmospheric apparitions of the icy kind
Inspection of the Ruchen
1 photo
In search of Konkordia
17 photos
April days in the Berner Oberland
In praise of La Greina
37 photos
Where less is moor
To the lakes of Macun
9 photos
From the Aua da Zeznina
Maderaner seasons
21 photos
Inspecting the Maderanertal in summer, autumn and winter
Inspection of Piz Medel
3 photos
Solo ski-touring in remotest Graubünden
Inspection of the Mönch
1 photo
An April day in the Bernese Oberland
Inspection of the Ortler
1 photo
On the highest limestone mountain in the Alps
The inspection of Piz Palü
6 photos
Up the aery mountain
Vadret
2 photos
On the glaciers of the Silvretta region
Inspection of the Tödi
5 photos
King of the little mountains
野ざらしいスバル紀行
1 photo
From the logbook of a weatherbeaten Subaru
Rigiblicks
11 photos
Views from the partly accessible summit
Inspection of Piz Quattervals
1 photo
In the Swiss National Park
Inspection of the Rinderhorn
1 photo
Spring ski-tour above the Gemmi Pass
Inspecziun da Parc Naziunal Svizzer
6 photos
October in the Val Sassa
Cloud studies
36 photos
Some clouds, sometimes
Inspection of the Mutteristock
2 photos
Forgotten summer
1 photo
Inspection of La Ruinette
Uf 'm Uetliberg
24 photos
Top of Zurich, and then some...
Inspection of the Plaine Morte
1 photo
Inspection of the Weissmies
6 photos
On the south-east ridge
Adventures in the Gotthard
13 photos
From the Rotondo hut to Oberwald on skis
Inspection of the Blüemlisalp
11 photos
Midsummer mountains in the Bernese Oberland
Nepal
11 photos
Inspection of the Forno
8 photos
In pursuit of the retreating ice
Inspection of Stotzigen Firsten
8 photos
Old favourites are the best
Nordgrat
1 photo
Inspection of the Fletschhorn-Lagginhorn traverse
Uplift
9 photos
Transports of delight
Inspection of Rophaien
2 photos
A summer mountain
The full Monte Rosa
9 photos
On and around the frontier ridge
In praise of Pizol
6 photos
On the heights of Canton St Gallen
OM days
25 photos
By the might of Olympus (OM1n or OM2n)
The inspection of Pilatus
2 photos
A day out in central Switzerland
Inspection of the Ruchstock
2 photos
The charm of Zentral Switzerland
Inspection of the Redertengrat
1 photo
Above and below the clouds
Flight regimes
14 photos
The view from Seat 36A
Inspection of the Rheinwaldhorn
2 photos
A mountain midway between Ticino, Graubünden, and the sky....
The inspection of Piz Glüschaint
6 photos
Or thereabouts
Window's vista
2 photos
Apertures with altitude
Encounters with remarkable woodpiles
3 photos
Postcards from...
1 photo
... here and there
Inspection of the Hengst
2 photos
Images from a monochrome mountain
FroZen
9 photos
The cold comfort of cryogenic scenery
Inspection of the Kanderfirn
3 photos
Meltdown in the Bernese Oberland
Inspection of the Grialetsch
9 photos
On the glaciers of the Albula Alps
Inspection of the Üssers Barrhorn
4 photos
Trying out the highest hike in Switzerland
Street photography
14 photos
.. or what we understand by the term...
Inspection of the Obergabelhorn
1 photo
Alpinism in the age of film
The alp in winter
22 photos
Silent for a season
Inspection of the Dents du Midi
3 photos
Ancestral manoeuvres in the Alps
13 photos
Featuring the work and collected images of Grandpa Light & Structure, from 1895 to the early 1900s
Epiphenomena
14 photos
Around and about Point 4478
St Cassian
2 photos
That little chapel of the dead above Thusis ...
The distressed film diaries
3 photos
Old ones but not necessarily good 'uns
millenarianism
3 photos
cloud studies with a four-sailed counterpoint