Easter vacation pictures

[footnotetoplato]

I've actually taken several photos over the vacation, in a few batches, so here is a post providing links to the best and briefly detailing the background. (Feel free to add comments to any of the photos)

In mid-March, I spent a long weekend in Switzerland skiing with my family. We stayed in an old converted chalet, which was lovely. The weather was

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[brightlywoven]

Great pictures those - amazing to see spring and winter separated by only a few days. Are you guys returning to Oxenford soon? Spring is sproinging here and the punts call - hopefully they dry after this:

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[footnotetoplato]

I like the snowy punts; a shame you couldn't use them.

We should be back on Monday or possibly Tuesday. B has just left for Kent to visit her grandparents. But if the weather calls you punting then don't wait on our account!

[brightlywoven]

the weekend doesn't look all that promising, unfortunately. Maybe next weekend

[overconvergent]

The major downside - of arriving at about 2am and leaving at 3am a few days later - is completely non-apparent in the pictures.

You could have taken a self-portrait showing the bags under the eyes?

[footnotetoplato]

I view the non-apparence as a good thing! I may look back on these photos in a few years, and have completely forgotten the timings.

[exactlyhalf]

Really good photos Owen. What did you take them with? You had some great light, great subjects, a very good eye for what to shoot, and a camera that did it all justice. I could go back and let you know all the ones I really liked, but I'm guessing they are exactly the ones that you like too.

[footnotetoplato]

The only common feature is that they were all taken with small digital cameras; the Swiss ones (mostly) with my Pentax, which I think is over four years old, the Snowman pictures with my brother's Ricoh R6, and the Arundel set with my mother's Panasonic, both of which are a bit more recent. Not quite all of the photos are mine.

I definitely think I was helped by taking quite a lot of photos and then editing down to the best set afterwards. Obviously I had some idea at the time of taking which ones would work well, so I could without too much loss reduce the number taken, but there definitely some which took me by surprise.

I think that my favourite photo was this one, but I'm sure I'm biased by memory; the light in that room was just stunningly beautiful, and all the photo does is imperfectly record it.

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[parrot_knight]

Thank you for posting these pictures. I have never been skiing but I tentatively say here it might just look like fun.

Despite having received a book on the dukes of Norfolk for a long-ago birthday, and even written a few bits and pieces on Howards, I've never been to Arundel Castle, though I'd like to get round to it at some point. It's even been used as a location in a Doctor Who story, pretending to be Windsor.