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My daily blog is a bit behind as I have been ill since arriving in America. Still trying to keep to plans as need the photos. Wednesday we skied Jackson Hole on a really good day. The views from the […]

We survived the New Years Eve party with Rob and Annie. Nice to meet so many of their friends. New Years Day we drove 4 hours to Laramie in Wyoming. It was dead, looked like everyone had gone somewhere else. […]

We arrived in Colorado on Thursday night from Washington a bit later than planned. Most of the snow that fell last week has gone or turned to ice here in Boulder. It’s mild and windy. Just had treatment on my […]

Just waiting at hotel for shuttle to airport. Have taken 12 rolls / 120 negatives in Washington DC. Managed to avoid arrest taking photos of the White House but stopped from using tripod. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and several other monuments […]

We are sitting in the Virgin lounge at Heathrow waiting for our flight to Washington DC. This is the first leg of our photo trip to the USA. About 30 minutes until we board. Photos in Washington DC later. Hope […]

That’s it, my last Christmas order for framed photos has been delivered at a rendezvous with customer at the A50 services south of Derby. Now driving down M1 to spend Christmas with Jan’s family in Harpenden. Tuesday we fly from […]

I walked to the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton this morning. Good covering of snow everywhere, up to 6 inches on the tops but mostly just 2 or 3 inches of wet snow. Bit of a blizzard on the […]

We are doing a 5 day Contemporary Crafts and Design Fair at RHS Wisley with Craft in Focus. It started on Thursday 24th and runs until Monday 28th November. It’s open 9am to 5pm for the next 3 days. Our stand […]

There are 4 new images of Frankfurt on the web, all taken at night. Lots more to come but no time to sort and scan them yet. Maybe soon. Frankfurt skyline from underneath the Holbeinsteg footbridge over the River Main […]

We are doing the Crafts for Christmas show at Birmingham NEC for the first time. Second of 4 days tomorrow, Friday. Busy day today. Included sales of 2 framed copies of St Paul’s from Millennium Bridge at Night (1m x […]

We returned home from the Glasgow Crafts for Christmas show and unloaded by midnight last night. It was a reasonable first show in Glasgow for us. I expect we will do it again next year, all being well. Here is […]

I now have 14 rolls (140 shots) of Glasgow photos. Included are George Square, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Green, Peoples Palace, Merchant City, Squinty Bridge, Clyde Arc bridge, Bells Bridge, Glasgow Tower, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow University, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow College […]

We are half-way through the Crafts for Christmas show at the Glasgow SECC. A bit slow so far but okay! I had no photos of Glasgow so have spent last 2 nights and part of yesterday and today during show-time […]

Last day of the Craft in Focus art & craft fair in Sevenoaks Sunday 23rd October. http://www.craftinfocus.com/sevenoaks_october_11.html It’s been a bit quieter than we hoped. Pretty much all shows this year have been hard work to make sales but most […]

It’s the annual Great Peak District Fair in Buxton this weekend. We will have our usual stand in the Octagon in Pavilion Gardens, along with 16 other members of the local art organisation Peak District Artisans. If you come you […]

It’s raining again in the Peak District, some of it heavy. Reservoirs will be rapidly filling up. Fortunately it started after we ran our last photo course of 2011. Yesterday’s post did finally appear on Facebook, about 19 hours after […]

We have a stand at the Art and Contemporary Designer Craft Fair run by Craft in Focus at the Queen Charlotte Hall in Richmond on Thames, near London. If you need the sat nav to find it use TW9 2RE. […]

What a great morning in Strasbourg. Sunny and warm-ish. Revisited several locations that I photographed last night; it was better light for some of them. Brighter reflections in the river in the old town. Could have spent all day taking […]

We left Villars in rain, then had snow as we drove over 2 passes on way to Gstaad. Then it was rain again on and off for much of the day. Had a morning break for a wander around Zweisimmen […]

After the thunderstorm during the night we woke to heavy rain and low cloud. Not a good day to hike the mountains and no big views to photograph. Google weather showed it better in the valley around Lake Geneva and […]

Jan drove us from Menaggio on Lake Como to Villars in Switzerland (in mountains at east end of Lake Geneva). Overcast, warm day. Not so good for photos as very hazy. Lots of traffic around Lugano and Locarno but quiet […]

We spent the day on and beside Lake Como. Very easy using ferries, we just bought tickets that let you jump on and off where you wish. From Menaggio we went across to Varenna on the eastern shore. After a […]

No only joking! Not comatose and not in Como, other than that it’s a true statement. Yesterday’s blog didn’t happen, I fell asleep after few beers and sharing a bottle of wine with Jan. So our last day around Lake […]

We had a day of 2 halves but both hot and humid. It started with walking around Malcesine taking shots with morning light. Some of which didn’t work yesterday afternoon because they needed light from the other direction. Then it […]

We drove from Misurina to Malcesine on Lake Garda in northern Italy. Just 18C increase in temp to 30C. It’s too hot for me and have remembered why have so many trips to cold climes. My bad back feels better […]

Today we planned to climb 3 passes near Misurina in the Dolomites. All started well with a chair lift ride up from Misurina and walk to the top of the first pass. There were cables but they weren’t needed. The […]

Fortunately the forecast for a wet day was seriously wrong. It was a cracking day in the Dolomites with sunshine, clouds and visibility for many miles. We circumnavigated the spiky peak called Croda da Lago, just south of Cortina, including […]

Today we hiked up Monte Piano from Misurina, just north of Cortina in the Italian Dolomites. It was warm and sunny all day with a cool breeze. Lots of shapely clouds in the blue sky to make for some striking […]

We woke to heavy rain in Innsbruck instead of the forecast sunshine. Time for a leisurely breakfast! Spent an hour or so taking photos around Innsbruck Altstadt in dull weather before heading south over the Brenner Pass into Italy. Next […]

We left Garmisch and headed south towards Austria. Dull but dry day, not the rain they had forecast. Sunshine tomorrow, allegedly, so decided to leave day-time shots in Innsbruck until then. Instead we detoured to the Pitztal for possible views […]

It was a cracking day today. Warm, blue sky and the odd cloud with a few clouds hanging in the valley until midday. Caught the train and cable car to the top of the Zugspitze and took some photos. Mostly […]

Yesterday was a good day for walking, warm and dry with sunny spells. Looked like it was clearing on tops so went up cable car to Zugspitze. Unfortunately, clouds didn’t clear from here so went down for walk in valley […]

We are heading south from Frankfurt. Came off the motorway to avoid traffic jam, driving towards Bavaria, hot and sunny. Frankfurt was good for photos, interesting buildings, the River Main, clear blue skies and hot. Ran off 120 rolls of […]

Stonor was a good show for us. Friday was quiet but the other 3 days were busy. Heavy rain on Friday probably didn’t help. Expect we will do again next year. We were home by 11pm Monday. Been very busy […]

A busier day than previous 2 days. Lots of interest and lots of sales. The good weather seemed to help too. A pint of Bombardier at the end of the day rounded it all off. Then it was down the […]

Quite a steady day at Stonor Park. More sales than yesterday. More sun than rain. Spoke to lots of nice people. London Pride in beer tent at show reasonable but found Grouse & Ale pub in Lane End with a […]

It was a wet first day at the show at Stonor Park near Henley on Thames. Heavy rain showers through the day. Good turnout though and reasonable sales. Open from 9.30am to 5.30pm if you are thinking of coming. We […]

Just travelling down south to setup for a 4 day show near Henley on Thames. The venue is Stonor Park and it’s one we haven’t done before; they only let photography in for first time last year. Quite a warm […]

Just finishing 13 mile walk for 2 pints of Snecklifter. Thought I’d better check it was still on fine form as it is a week since I last checked in to Shepherd’s Arms pub in Whaley Bridge. I Jeremy have […]

At long last the gallery mods are close to being finished. The main entrance hall is pretty much done but the side corridor still needs some hanging rails fitting before any pictures can be displayed there. Today I hung 50 […]

It’s my last gallery day until mid-October. Dry as I walked the 6 miles here this morning but jolly heavy showers this afternoon. Hope the walk home is dry. Tomorrow is a computer day preparing images for a US 2013 […]

The electrician went on holiday this week so the gallery refurbishment is still not finished. Hopefully it will be done by Tuesday, assuming he comes back as promised! It will be 4 weeks on Tuesday since they started and almost […]

Today I sent the last few images from the mega scanning session of a few months ago for loading onto my web site. Around 30 new images in total, including Colorado, Paris and Christchurch. Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

We went up to Lancaster today to take down my Lake Light exhibition. It had been up for several weeks and we made some sales. Took a lot longer to put up than take down! Our next exhibition is the […]

It’s a cold, wet and windy day in the Peak District. More like autumn than summer. I am in the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton until 6pm. Bit quiet in spite of it being in the middle of the […]

After a year of waiting the Great Dome Art Fair is here. It opens at 7pm tonight. Then open 10am to 4.30pm over the weekend. Free entry, over 60 top quality artists exhibiting under the Peak District Artisans umbrella. The […]

I am in the Gallery in the Gardens today until 6pm. The 6 mile walk this morning was good, quite sunny but cool. Felt a bit lethargic to start with but soon into the swing of it again, just 3 […]

What a surprise, the Greyound in Shap was a Camra real ale pub and had 8 on hand pumps. The landlord said if we drank all 8 he would give us the 9th free. A challenge too far for us, […]

Al and I finished the 5 day, 60 mile plus trek across the Lake District. I am writing this a bit late as I fell asleep late yesterday after I started. It was either the exertions of the last 5 […]

Just turned in for the night at the White Lion Hotel in Patterdale. We planned a visit to the Patterdale Hotel a couple of hundred yards away. In the end we were having such a good time chatting to fellow […]