I think I'm going to get in to trouble with a certain blogger from Surrey, England. This photo exhibits all the things I criticised about his Thames photo recently, and adds quite a few of its own.. tempus fugit tho'

Rapperswil is at the southern end of Lake Zurich, and a very nice place it is too. Hotel Schwanen is on the shore - Joseph Roth wrote bits of "The Radetzky March" there - that's the one with words in it, not the Josef Strauss version, although that has it's charm and illuminates the book.

Yes, there was a heavy frost last night.......

A lot of others have been posting commenting on snow and frost across Europe, so here's my contribution

Leica M3 24mm Summicron Tri-x

Leica M8 28mm Elmarit

Leica M8 28mm Elmarit

Leica M3 24mm Summicron Tri-x

Talking about selling my "little" Bronica ETRS made me go back and look at the GS1 images in my archive. I love them, and this web shot doesn't do justice to the range of tones and quality in a large print. (11000 x 9000 pixels btw) Ah - nostalgia. I'm probalbly going to go along with Chuckeroons advice and keep them all. As long as I shoot with them now and again

UPDATE: just notived a bit of a scanning problem on the left side

Bronica GS1 50mm Zenzanon FP4

Why do Henry Moore's Sheep look like sheep when they don't?

Bronica ETRs 50mm Zenzanon Fuji Provia

There's always some joker trying to sneak into your photo....

Leica M8 28mm Elmarit

Anyone who lives near a large body of water knows the delights of the ever changing light and atmosphere. Also very handy for the daily photographer who is at a loss for a shot. As I've shown before this view of the lake from the tram is seen by thousands every day in all it's different guises (with or without Ganymede)

I haven't posted a photo of Ganymede for a while, so here's one - first of 2008

Leica M8 35mm Summicron

This is a photo taken at the weekend in Luzern. What do you make of the composition? Some people would say that it is "unbalanced" - the right hand side is dark and the left hand side is light. I have my opinion, and just because I posted it doesn't mean I disagree with this... what do you think?

Leica M8 35mm Summicron

Well, a bit lazy, but another picture of the Zürichsee steamer Stadt Zürich. This is for a friend who has just been experiencing her sister of the seas, the SS Waverley. It doesn't seem so long ago that I was posting about the first cruise of the season, and we are now approaching the last (well, sometime in September)

Apparently it's been a bumper year for the cruises, as was last year. This reflects a general boom in Swiss tourism, driven I guess by the favourable exchange rates amongst other things

Another pic of the Ganymede statue overlooking the lake - some pigeons encouraging the eagle to take to the air

In Luzern, so a sneaky off-location image. The paddle steamer "D.S. Uri" leaving the quai alongside the Konzerthalle Luzern. Named after one of the 4 forest cantons that formed the original Swiss Federation.

Leica M3 50mm summicron Tri-X