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Today was a big day for us in more ways than one. Lots to photograph after the day time washout yesterday and lots of walking. In fact Jan’s Fitbit said we walked just...
On our way back to our hotel for a break in the photography proceedings I noticed this shop window. Analogue photography is obviously still thriving here. A large part of the shop...
Jan and I are in Vienna for a few days. We seem to be just in time to catch the monsoon season! Lots of rain. We arrived here late morning. There was a 2 hour spell in early...
I have been using my Maco Ecomat TP5060 for drying fibre based darkroom prints since buying it new in 2002. It is fantastic at drying Ilford FB papers flat and takes up to 24 x 20 inch...
Ilford Photo asked me if I could provide prints with my images on their 3 new fibre based Multigrade papers for Photokina. This is the worlds largest photo and imaging...
I have added several new vertical panoramics of Italian towns and cities as well as a couple in London. They are on the Recently Added pages for the next month or two and can also...
We are doing an event this weekend at Wellington College near Bracknell. That’s the Royal ‘We’, Jan is running our stand on her own! Over 100 high quality...
In June 2014 I walked a circular route in the Lake District with my good friend Al from Gloucester. We have done quite a few treks together including Glasgow to Cape Wrath...
I changed all of my framed photographs in my display in the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton Pavilion Gardens. There are a few new prints in the browsers too. I had been meaning...
Here are a few newly scanned images from a ski mountaineering trip along the Western Bernese Oberland Traverse in Switzerland. Arpelistock Sunrise Ascent Grossstrubel...
I am busy scanning snowy pictures for my new book and have added quite a few to the web site. Here’s a selection of the ones around Chamonix, especially Mont Blanc....
I have been fortunate enough to have a few rides in aircraft other than big airliners. This gives some scope for taking photographs, which is difficult from big planes as the windows...
We are exhibiting at Buxton Summer Fete in Pavilion Gardens this weekend. Open until 5pm both days. We have lots of new work and show offers. Jan has her colour photos too....
I have added a lot of new photographs to my web gallery. These are from various trips over the years and include ski mountaineering and skiing. Locations include: the Gran...
Just printing one of my Ilford FP4 120 negatives on fantastic new Ilford Multigrade FB Cooltone glossy paper at 24 x 20 inches. We’ve chosen a Wolf Creek Colorado snow...
It’s the last day of the Artist and Designer Fair at Pavilion Gardens in Buxton. We have lots of photographs, including new ones. Jan has her colour photos on the stand...
Our last day of the 80 mile 8 day circular walk around the Lake District over all of the English 3000 foot mountains and as many others as I could reasonably fit into our route....
It was a late breakfast today, our Grasmere hotel didn’t open thebreakfast room until 8.30 am. No good if you have a big day on the hills. Fortunately we didn’t,...
Oh dear, we feared the worst. Rain forecast all day! It was supposed to be showery though so I packed my Mamiya 7 camera, Gitzo tripod and Ilford FP4 film. The rain started...
Short day today at 7.5 miles and 3.5 hours. Just as well as about 30 minutes after leaving the Inn in Threlkeld a heavy shower forced us to put on full waterproofs. It rained...
So much for weather forecasts. Today the Met Office and BBC told us to expect heavy rain showers all day. In fact we had no rain at all and lots of sunshine. It was a great...
No Wifi in Stonethwaite. What a disaster, no blogging tonight. The forecast was for thunderstorms so we had an early breakfast to make sure we were on our way by 9am. We wanted...
Friday 6th June 2014. What a contrast to yesterday, we awoke to wall to wall blue sky. Looked like the forecast was right! Jolly good breakfast at the Wasdale Head Hotel,...
Today was our first day of the 8 day circular walk around the Lake District that I’ve planned. I was hoping for some bright spells this afternoon so I carried my Mamiya...
I’m in the Lake District with good friend Al from Gloucester. We have joined up for our annual walking cum photography trip. We are walking for 8 days over the highest...
I have added some new images of Glen Coe to my web gallery on davebutcher.co.uk. Here’s a link to just the new ones. They were taken over several trips in summer and winter,...
In the summer of 2005 my wife Jan and I visited our best friends Rob and Annie in Boulder Colorado. I had some locations in mind for photographs but needed to check what else...
I have added quite a few new images of San Francisco to my website. All taken in January and February this year. Transamerica Pyramid Bay Bridge Bay Bridge and Moon Union...
We’re exhibiting at the Living Crafts show at Hatfield House marquee G. Open 10am to 5pm every day to Sunday. Jan’s colour photos on the stand too! Lots of new photos...
We have put up a new exhibition in the Art Cafe in Buxton Pavilion Gardens called City Light. It is mainly photographs from my recent book of the same name. There are a total...
For some time I have been thinking about separating my main website www.davebutcher.co.uk from the technical information in order to improve navigation. I have been actively...
We’re exhibiting at the Easter Extravaganza in Buxton Pavilion Gardens for the next 4 days. 10am to 5pm every day. Free entry. 60-odd exhibitors. Lots of photos and some...
I have just scanned 7 new images of the exterior of the Shard in London and added them to the website. Here’s a selection. They were all taken on 10th January with quite...
I have two exhibitions of my work this year. The first of these is of some of my winter hill and mountain photographs at the Derby Cathedral Centre, called Winter Peaks. It’s...
The last 3 days we have been skiing in Colorado. Tuesday at Arapahoe Basin, Wednesday and Thursday at Beaver Creek. All days were cold with poor visibility so I did a lot of skiing...
The weather brightened up the last couple of days. Lots of sunshine after fresh snow. Yesterday we snowshoed about 7 miles in Rocky Mountain National Park. We went up to Cub Lake...
Actually several walks in the snow! We have been walking around the Boulder Foothills the last few days. There has been some fresh snow to brighten things up but it needs...
The Mamiya 7 is a rangefinder camera, which means it is not possible to look through the lens, so normal polarising filters are difficult to use. Fortunately Mamiya make a special...
Another 3 days skiing and 2 days walking without my camera gear, but with visits to 3 breweries all in great weather, has helped look after my aching back! After Keystone...
We skied Keystone in Colorado today. First time we had put skis on in 2 years but it soon came back. I decided to have the day off from photography and left the camera behind....
We have moved on from San Francisco and we are now with good friends Rob and Annie in Boulder in Colorado. Saturday was a travel day. Sunday we had a leisurely walk to the J Wells...
We thought we would try looking at San Francisco from a different angle so we took the ferry across to Sausolito. It takes about 30 minutes. It was sunny and warm again but not clear...
Another day of photography in San Francisco with blue skies and temperatures over 20°C. They’re having a tough winter over here! Today I took shots of the Bay Bridge,...
We are in San Francisco on a photo trip. Clear blue skies and 19°C yesterday, also clear views which was good. That’s warmer than Derbyshire in the summer! Took quite...
In amongst the new images of London are 3 new images of Manchester. They are all shown here and are on the main website. Beetham Tower / Hilton Hotel Castlefield Merchants...
Not wanting to be idle over the break we decided to go down to London just after Christmas to take photos! Fortunately we had reasonable weather, except for some light rain...
I added 22 new images of Bruges to my web site before Christmas. A mix of daytime and quite a few taken at night. Here is a selection. Follow this link to the Bruges page...
New photo of the Shard, this one taken on my phone but proper one taken using my Mamiya 7. Great day for photos in London today. We finished our whistle stop photo trip with...
We are in London for a day or so taking photos to add to my picture library. Today was wet and dull until early afternoon and then really good light until dark. Smithfield...
Out for a walk in the Peak District with good friend Peter Moore from Kenilworth. Took this tree on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone and edited in Snapseed. The wind was strong...
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