Snow in Bristol
(black and white)

The December snow had just melted, when a new onslaught of snow covered Bristol during the night of 5/6 January 2010. As temperatures stayed mostly below zero and more snow came down, the white stuff stayed put for well over a week. During the same time, large parts of Northern Europe experienced even much colder conditions, and the media often referred to this extraordinary cold spell as the 'Big Freeze'.

Snow in Bristol
(colour)

A few days before Christmas 2009, Bristol got covered in a thin layer of snow. Much of it survived the next days, especially in parks and woodlands.

Isle of Skye
(black and white)

Returning from a day trip to Armadale, I loaded my Pentax K1000 with black and white film stock (Ilford Delta 100 Pro, to be precise) and spent the evening of the 20th of June along Broadford Bay. The following day I embarked on a long walk from Broadford via Waterloo and Breakish to an old graveyard, then back again, walking almost the entire length of Broadford before turning onto the Torrin road. From there I took a footpath across farmland around Broadford River, and finally walked back through the forest along the main road.

Isle of Skye
(colour)

I arrived on the Isle of Skye on 19 June, and on my very first evening, I went for a walk up a hill on the footpath towards Heathe where I experimented with a panorama shot. Three days later I relocated to a B&B in Bernisdale, roughly half way along the road from Portree to Dunvegan. My last full day on Skye was the 24th of June, and as a grand finale, I decided to walk from Bernisdale to Portree via a scenic route that would include the Glenmore to Portree footpath along a mountain ridge. As it turned out, the path became eventually invisible, and the ground increasingly soggy and treacherous, so that I abandoned my plan, walked back via Glenmore to Glenglasco, and approached Portree from the small road that links it with Bracadale.

First days of Spring

Three still pictures taken in Bristol on 15 March 2009, with an emphasis on simplicity.

Lanterns

One thing that fascinates me with old street lanterns is the way the glass breaks and blurs the light of what's behind the lantern. Here are three examples (with apologies for the more general blurriness of the middle picture).

Bristol at the turn of the year

A selection of stills shot at the end of December 2008 and in early January 2009 on the first roll of film I've run through my Pentax K1000 camera. Click on any picture for a larger version.