Hiking - Göscheneralpsee, 1'789Mslm, 3.09.2024

Göscheneralpsee, 1'789Mslm, Circular Route 3.09.2024

I'd had this hike in the back of my mind for a couple of years and finally decided to do it when I had a couple of days free back in September.

The starting point of the hike is only about an hours drive from my house and it's already a totally different world away from where I live, a different language, and above all entirely different landscape being right in the center of the Alps.

The hike is a very easy one, around 10km long with 460m of elevation gain, and it took me just under 4 hours which I took very easy and stopping many time for photos and a quick lunch break. I also stopped a few times just to admire the truly amazing landscape and have vowed to return perhaps next year and shoot it again with a medium format or digital camera.

I'm not too sure about the film stock I chose for these shots, Kodak Double XX, which I had lying around for quite a while and wanted to use it before it expired. The shots all seem a little underexposed even though it was quite a dull day.

All shots made on my Leica M2 and 35mm Summilux Pre Asph, and developed in Kodak Xtol.

 

Nikko, Japan - November 2024

 

Nikko, Japan - November 2024

Each year I try to get away for a week during the Autumn. I usually spend this week exploring somewhere in Japan with last 2-3 days staying in Tokyo.

At the start of this visit I headed to Nikko, which is a small town around 2 hours by train, north of Tokyo. It's well know for its Unesco world heritage temples and shrines, and also for the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was also the beginning of the Edo period in Japanese history.

The first day I spent exploring the temples which are situated in a dense forest on the edge of the town. Needless to say the colours of the forest during this period are spectacular.

All the following photos were made on a Nikon ZF with a 35mm lens.

The second day was spent hiking on the Senjogahara Plateau starting at Lake Chuzenji, hiking the 12km to Yuno Lake. 

All the following photos were made on a Nikon ZF with a 24 - 120mm lens.

Sicily - September 2024 (Part 2)

Sicily - September 2024 on 35mm Film (Part 2)

All the following colour photos were shot on expired 35mm film, and the black and white shots with Ilford HP5, using a Leica M2 with a 35mm Summilux pre asph.