Photographer and writer
I’ve posted a couple of times about the iced-up lakefront at Versoix, Switzerland (here and here). For the first 2 weeks of February this year, a vicious North wind that locals call the bise roared across Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), throwing spray over cars, and boats, and trees, and benches, and anything else along the [...]
Great photographers keep shooting no matter what … The tangle of ropes and spars in this photograph was once the Endurance, the ship which Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 used on the ‘Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition’ of 1914. The object of their voyage was to land in Antarctica and cross the continent via [...]
It’s been 10 days now, and the quay at Versoix (near Geneva, Switzerland) is still encased in ice. The cars are still frozen solid. Immovable. What is there to say? Let my photos say it for me … When will it end?
They’re still frozen in place – the cars of Versoix. I wonder if they’ll pick up any parking tickets? I’ve just got back from the lake-front where this sad Suzuki (yes, that’s what it is under all that icing) has been immobilised. And there are more cars stuck to the street. But they’re attracting the [...]
This ‘frozen asset’ is popular with photographers. Its image is all over the web at the moment … And where is it? Locked into immobility on the shores of Lac Léman (otherwise known as Lake Geneva) at Versoix, Switzerland. Over the past few days we have had a vicious bise wind blowing from the north, [...]
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