This is the Dave Butcher photo diary of a Chamonix to Zermatt Haute Route ski mountaineering trip in 1993. At the time I just made a few small prints but when I built my first website in 2003 I scanned those prints […]
Introduction and Travel I completed the Pennine Way in 16 days in 1974 so we were starting on the 50th anniversary of this! Last time I backpacked the whole way with 2 friends but this time I was hiking with […]
Introduction The Southern Upland Way is Scotland’s official Coast to Coast Trail from Portpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway on the west coast, through the Scottish Borders, to Cockburnpath in Berwickshire near the east coast. It was 218 miles long and […]
It was a pleasant surprise to get an email from photo journalist Damien Demolder asking if I would like him to do a 6 page article on me for Amateur Photographer magazine in the UK. I had previously met Damien […]
After 17 years with High Peak Artists I have decided to leave at the end of January 2022. I was recruited in February 2005, having already been accepted to join Peak District Products (an art and craft group of professional […]
It’s October but better late than never, here’s the blog post for a Lake District Photo trek that I made during Lockdown 3 in the UK. The trip had been booked in 2019 for July 2020. However, Covid-19 meant that […]
I changed my display yesterday in Gallery in the Gardens in Pavilion Gardens Buxton. Several new hand-printed darkroom silver gelatin pictures as well as lots of small mounted darkroom prints at £5 and £15. I’m still being very cautious because […]
I opened an Etsy shop called DaveButcherPhotos in May 2021 for Clearance Prints, mostly with at least 60% discount compared to normal prices. When we were doing shows we built up quite large stocks of finished prints in lots of […]
My main website now has a Clearance Prints page: https://www.davebutcher.co.uk/images/clearance-prints/ The prints listed are all in stock as finished prints ready to ship and are mostly at least 60% less than normal prices. We used to keep large stocks of […]
I have added a gallery to the web page that summarises all of the trips made by my wife Jan and I when we were ‘Compleating’ the Munro’s in Scotland (separate mountains over 3000 feet/914m). It involved scanning dozens of […]
I have pulled together a new gallery web page for the trek I did from Glasgow to Cape Wrath over 3 Summers 2003-2005 with friends. Lots of black and white photos and maps of the route. Here’s the page link: […]
I have replaced the old web pages for the ski mountaineering trips that I did in the 1990’s. The structure is different, including new gallery layouts with proper captions for each picture. There are also quite a few new black […]
I have replaced the old web page for the 6 day Bernese Oberland ski mountaineering trip that I completed in 1995. We had bad weather for several days but overall it was a good trip for photography. Here’s the link: […]
There’s a new web page for the trek I made with 2 good friends along the Pennine Way in the early 1970’s. Here’s the link: https://www.davebutcher.co.uk/pennine-way-trek-diary/
I’ve added a new web page covering the 2 occasions that I’ve walked Wainwright’s Coast to Coast trek from St Bees Head to Robin Hood’s Bay. The first crossing took over 24 years to complete, the second was completed in […]
The Swiss Alpine Pass Route runs for 200 miles between Sargans and Montreux over 18 mountain passes. It is also called the Via Alpina 1 for the part between Sargans and Lenk. My wife Jan and I walked it with […]
Jan and I walked the Northumberland Coast Path in May 2019. It runs from near Ellington in the south to Berwick upon Tweed in the north and we took 6 days to walk the 75 miles. I posted a series […]
I’ve created a web page from the log and photos that I took on a trek that I did with good friend Al from Gloucester in 2019. The trek was based on the Dales Way but between Kettlewell and Dent […]
I have been catching up with scanning my negatives and have added several new Peak District images to my davebutcher.co.uk website. Included this time are Buxton, Hartington, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Tideswell, Mam Tor, Robin Hoods Stride and the Roaches.
We visited Schladming in Austria for the first time to ski there for 6 days from 12th and 17th January. There hadn’t been fresh snow for just over a week when we arrived and there was no fresh snow during […]
Saturday 22nd February 2020 Jan drove us to Bradford (actually closer to Bingley) where we parked at our hotel and walked 4.3 miles in 1h 10mins to meet friends at the Bradford Beer Festival in Saltaire. We raced along a […]
Hebden Bridge is a small town just off the Pennine Way and it made a convenient start for a 6 day trek for my wife Jan and I in October 2019. I didn’t carry my Mamiya 7 film camera (giving […]
I have an exhibition in the Buxton Pump Room until Friday 3rd January 2020. Free Entry. It’s where the Buxton Tourist Information Centre is situated so just follow the signs to that or the Crescent (it’s opposite the Crescent which […]
At the end of September 2019, Jan and I travelled up to Peebles. I wanted to walk from Peebles to Kirk Yetholm. This was the last gap in my Cape Wrath to Sennen Cove ‘Top-2-Bottom’ Trek between Cape Wrath and […]
We don’t know Shropshire very well but recently had several days walking the fields in the north and hills in the south while staying in either Bishops Castle or Shrewsbury. In fact, by the time we had completed our 5 […]
Monday 24th June 2019 A very wet day from start to finish. Drizzle in the morning, low clouds on the hills and torrential rain, as in stair-rods rain, in mid-afternoon. The day started with several miles along the canal from […]
I decided last year that it would be good to walk from Milngavie (start of the West Highland Way) and Kirk Yetholm (end of the Pennine Way). I walked my version of the West Highland Way (WHW) in 2003 and […]
Friday 24th May 2019 After a good breakfast at the Lindisfarne Inn we headed off on the short distance to the coast. It was another warm day, lots of sunshine but breezy. Most of the 12 miles to the end […]
Thursday 23rd May 2019. The title was a bit of a misnomer today, mostly we were walking inland a few miles from the coast. It was a short day today, just 8 miles, so we didn’t leave until 10am. Wall […]
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 It was a delayed start as breakfast was in a cafe opposite our hotel and the chef turned up late. It was a bright day with a cool breeze as we walked along the top of […]
Tuesday 21st May 2019. It was a dull start to the day and a bit chilly as we left the Cottage Inn in Dunstan just after 9.30am. The light on Craster Harbour was flat as a pancake so no more […]
Monday 20th May 2019. We left the Sun Hotel in Warkworth at the crack of 10am. It was overcast so no pictures of the castle. The first section was down a small ginnel between the back gardens of houses and […]
We’re in Northumberland walking along the coast from Cresswell to Berwick upon Tweed this week. Hoping to take lots of coastal and castle photos. Today, Sunday 19th May 2019, we started at the Ellington Plough (a good friendly place to […]
Tuesday 7th May 2019. Today we walked from the Port of Pollensa to the pretty bay of Cala Sant Vicenc. The trail was unmarked except for a hand scrawled sign, nothing official anywhere on the entire route. Very rough track […]
Monday 6th May 2019. Today we headed over to Soller from our base in the Port of Pollensa. First we visited the Gardens of Alfabia. Lots to see on this old estate. Lots of orange and lemon trees too. We […]
We’re spending a few days on Mallorca with Jan’s sister and husband, based in the Port of Pollensa. Today Peter and I walked up to Puig De Maria Monastery from Pollensa, about 3 miles in total. The weather is good […]
Saturday 13th April 2019, the last day of our 87 mile 7 day 3 Peaks Dales Way trek. We left the Jolly Anglers after a very hearty breakfast at the crack of 9.30am! There was a chill in the air, […]
Today, Friday 12th April, was our penultimate day on the Dales Way and we walked from Sedbergh to Burneside (north of Kendal). We started by walking uphill and cutting around the foot of the Howgills, not the official route but […]
After an enormous breakfast at the Old Hill Inn we headed off up Whernside. I can’t remember ever previously being asked if I needed more cooked breakfast, more toast yes but not more bacon and sausage! Another chilly but bright […]
Today, Wednesday 10th April, we left the Crown Hotel in Horton in Ribblesdale after a good breakfast in bright sunshine, but it was cold and breezy. We only saw 3 other people on the track from Horton, all fell runners. […]
We thought to make the Dales Way a bit more interesting we’d divert over the 3 Peaks. Today, Tuesday 9th April, we walked from Kettlewell to Horton in Ribblesdale via Pen-y-Ghent. It stayed dry all day but cold, especially in […]
After a good nights sleep and a good breakfast at the Red Lion in Burnsall we continued on the Dales Way to Kettlewell along the River Wharfe. The water level was quite low, surprising since the Dales area had serious […]
I’m walking a variation of the Dales Way with good friend Al from Gloucester. It’s about 80 miles and we’re taking 7 days. To add a bit of extra interest we’re diverting over the 3 Peaks between Kettlewell and Dent. […]
I have walked a lot of long distance routes over the years, both in the UK and abroad. Some are official trails and others I just pull the maps out and link together paths and tracks. While reviewing some of […]
I’m giving my Snow Light lecture to Warrington Photo Society tonight and Deepings Camera Club tomorrow night. A mix of snowy landscapes, coastal and other landscapes as well as city shots. All taken on medium format Ilford film using Mamiya […]
Friday 1st March in the Lake District was a dull day all day. I didn’t take any photos with my proper camera just a few phone photos when I remembered. We intended to catch the 10.45am ferry from Ambleside to […]
Thursday 28th February and the weather has turned. It was cloudy and threatening to rain, a bit chilly to start with too. No brightness at all but a few reflections photos, a bit of mist at times and a waterfall. […]
Wednesday 27th February 2019, another warm blue sky day. Chilly start then temperature rose to 12°C, warm work walking the couple of thousands of feet over Heron Pike to Great Rigg. Chilly breeze on top. Then via Alcock Tarn to […]
Today, Tuesday 26th February 2019, was forecast to be another warm blue sky day. We decided to make the most of the weather and go high, from Ambleside to Dove Crag in fact. Of the 3 ridges running north from […]
We’re in the Lake District for a few days. As it’s February we expected snowy mountains requiring axe and crampons but temperatures of 15°C for a few days and mild weather for a couple of weeks means everything is looking […]
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