Filed under: (3.) Switzerland
so i just recently went skiing in switzerland for a few weeks with some friends…had a really good time, was just soooo expensive. (the fact that i made my way over to morzine (france) for a few nights visiting another friend didnt really help my financial state..anyway! here i’ve posted a few photos from the trip, the rest have yet to be sorted through. all shot with nikon d 40 + 18-55 mm lens.
we had a really early flight, but like not early enough to just stay awake, but not long enough to make falling asleep worth your while? yeah but as my dad was helping load james and zaks bags into our car, i took this of james new flat, kind of a second home for me.
so we arrived with no problems, everything went a.o.k (pretty unusual!), but then we had to find our way from Geneva to Verbier. this was taken on the airport underground platform thing while the two i went with tried to work out how we get from A to B. was taken with a high iso (think it was like 800?) and a slightly delayed shutter speed to try and get some distortion. quite like it, although it took so long to wait until the escalators were free, was soo busy! anyway…
plan sorted, we were on our first train to the home of kings bar (a seedy bar in verbier we late made ours). this is zak, click the image to see with NO cropping! what like about this is the depth of field, lowest f-stop number (think around f 2- 3?), medium iso setting and hoped for the best haha. killing time on the train really..
ah this photo.. i love it for some reason? i suppose becasue its a direct reminder of the scenic views switzerland had on offer the whole way there. i set the focus to manual, and then fiddled with some more focusing settings (what exactly, im not sure!) and ended up with this, which looks pretty similar to the prints i sometimes get with my ricoh when using with the broken wide angle! anyway yeah, like it. (ps click to view with zero cropping.)
so these next few photographs are taken on second platform, whilst waiting for the second train. above, some really nice tones. i especially like the pole on the right?
and what i like about this most is the clean cut- black and white contrast, effecting how i think we set the rest of the scene in our heads. there are’t many tones, not many variations on shades, just really dark, dark and light. i also like how the lines lead your eyes out (more so the train tracks), and how the platform and the train run parallel, highlighting the colour contrast. however, i do wish we could see more of the women on the platform, to help give some story to the photo, who is she? where is she? where is she going? etc.
right so again, just waiting on the platform: slower shutter speed, otherwise same camera settings (medium to high iso rating etc). with the mountains were more visible, they look quite white washed.
hahahaha zak.. couldn’t resist playing with the levels with this, well the one on the right. he thinks he has bad skin- he doesnt, and he thinks the way to resolve this issue is to put toothpaste on his skin- it isnt !!!
quite punk? love it. it was taken in the bunker on our first night. mental. actually is the weirdest place i have ever stayed. it was built to shelter the people of Verbier should nuclear war ever break out.. however, now? its a cheap (for switzerland) place to stay. had my i pod stolen and EVERYTHING.
this is a church in verbier. the first of the two i visited. i spent a bit of time like bill murray in lost in translation actually- time to kill when i wanst skiing, waiting for them two to come back. so with a wonders spirit i took to the streets and stumbled across this, a house of god. the stain glass slits illuminating the room just looked plain and a bit odd from the outside, so when i went in i was not expecting this. the two people in the shot also appeared to be wonders. just us three in there. i then lit a candle…
did not donate though. dug deep, but found nothing. nightmare when you light a candle in church you cant pay for. anyway, bad photo, good memory.
so yeah bad to end with a bad photograph but anyway. i have loads more to look through, think most are just fun photos like with not much thought behind them, but you never know! so until next time…
