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Woke to clear skies so decided to see how far towards Jotunheim we could get before hit rain. There was still some sun breaking through as we approached Jotunheim so found some high ground to east to take photos looking […]

We changed our plans once more. We woke to heavy rain and this continued through the day. No point in taking ferry for waterfall photos; weather too bad to even take camera out of case. Decided to drive over to […]

The weather took a dive today. Heavy rain from opening the curtains before 7am until after 4pm. Changed plans to drive further north, effectively jumping 3 days ahead on our itinerary..Forecast for high mountain areas was not good. Passed some […]

Staying in very nice hotel in Flam. Weather mostly dull with a few hours of light rain from mid-morning to early afternoon. Started the day with a steep slippery climb up to Flam waterfall. Large drop and huge volume of […]

Trouble accessing the web through my Blackberry earlier today delayed doing this. Yesterday was a 2 new country day. I had not previously visited Sweden or Norway. Reached Oslo just after 7pm yesterday, so lots of time for night shots. […]

Started the day in Copenhagen with a little bit of brightness. It quickly closed in with a few spots of rain as I was taking shots around the very picturesque Nyhavn area. Lots of tall ships and cafes.The brightly painted […]

Touch damp at times today but no real rain. Lots of bridge shots either side of Odense in Denmark, quite breezy so sea choppy.Tonight was out taking photos around Copenhagen until 11.30pm, This included Tivoli, Nyhavn and Little Mermaid. Back […]

This morning started grey but brightened to broken clouds mid morning. Spent an hour or two around Hamburg harbour area and St Michelis Kirche. Now driving up through Denmark, a new country for me so looking forward to some shots […]

We reached Hamburg about 6.30 pm and went straight to the Hotel Bellevue. Unfortunately they are as unscrupulous as airlines and had considerably overbooked so we were moved to the Holiday Inn 3 miles away, which is very nice but […]

Visited the Kinderdijk windmills this morning, straight after getting off the ferry.it’s a world heritage site and includes 19 mills in pristine condition. For information, they are between Rotterdam and Dordrecht and were mostly built in the 1700’s. . A […]

Bit of a busy day finishing odd jobs before leaving on photo trip. Now heading for ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland. Tomorrow need some good weather in the morning for our first stop – Kinderdijk windmills. More on […]

We are in Buxton Pavilion Gardens this weekend for an Artist & Designer’s Fair. There’s quite a buzz around (and nice weather) with a continental market on the promenade just outside. It makes a good combination of different food and […]

There are a few more new images on the web site. They were taken on 16th July during the course that I ran as a competition with Harman Technology in Black and White Photography magazine. Some of them will be […]

We will be setting up for the Artist and Designer’s Fair in Buxton Pavilion Gardens Friday (later today). It will be open Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4.30 pm, free entry. You can expect to see up to 40 […]

I walked the 6 miles in to the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton today, where I spent the day. Quite bright this morning but overcast and chilly this afternoon. Started thinking about another idea for the book after Lake […]

We are having great weather in the Peak District right now. From Wednesday onwards it haas been warm and sunny with nice clouds to add interest to the skies. The forecast is for it to continue right through the weekend […]

I’m in the Gallery in the Gardens, in Buxton Pavilion Gardens, all day Wednesday 9th September, 9.30 am to 5 pm. Come by for a chat and have a look at several dozen of my photographs on display. Both Peak […]

The Munro log for Jan and I is now on the web site. It will allow you to see the details of all the individual walks that collectively added up to us completing the 277 Munro’s in Munro’s Tables. When […]

Just finished processing the films from Bolton Priory in the Yorkshire Dales and Norfolk. I will do the contact prints later this week so that I can see what they look like before scanning a few to put on web. […]

Just on way home from a couple of days in Norfolk with friends.Today we walked from Cley to Wells. Photographs of Cley windmill, Blakeney and Wells-next-the-sea.Blue skies and clouds so good light.Bit of a long day though, don’t expect to […]

For almost 12 years to June 1996 my wife Jan and I walked the Munro’s in Scotland (mountains over 3000 feet). There are 284 of them, hence the length of time involved. I have just created a new web page […]

Another day in the Gallery in Pavilion Gardens. Nice morning to walk the 6 miles to get here. Weather has just taken a turn for the worse with heavy rain now. Hope it blows through before my return!Would have been […]

The new Edinburgh black and white photographs that I took over 2 days in early August are now with the company that looks after my web site. All 32 images should be loaded and live for viewing in a day […]

I’m in the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton Pavilion Gardens until 5pm today. If you are able to drop by for a chat and see my small exhibition of fine art photographs. Dave Butcher Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

Just finished scanning and tweaking 14 new images from Utah. Mainly snowy trees. They should be on the web site soon. Dave Butcher Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

Just completed some snowy tree landscape images for the web site (should be available for viewing from Tuesday). Taken mainly around Boulder in Colorado they also include the Flatiron mountains (just on the edge of the city) under quite different […]

I have just scanned and tweaked 27 images taken at 4 ski resorts in America in January this year. The weather was mixed so there are both sunny and misty shots. Lots of views including mountains like the Gore range, […]

If you want to see some of my photos from my recent trip to Ireland and read a bit of the background to the trip then you need to read my article in the current issue (September 2009) of Black […]

Having a nice day in the Yorkshire Dales. Blue sky and white fluffy clouds, great for photos – a dark yellow filter day to darken the sky and put some punch into the shots. More shots of the Strid gorge […]

Just in Yorkshire Dales for weekend near small village of Appletreewick. Today walked down Wharfedale past small gorge called the Strid. Good photo spot and lots of water rushing through the narrows. Also took some shots from Simon Seat (top […]

At shows you have been able to buy small prints (30 x 24cm) for several years. These are now available online too. It will take another few days to complete the change. The prints are all originals and are made […]

Just on way home from Edinburgh via Northumberland coast. Started off in Kirk Yetholm late morning. This is the end of the Pennine Way and I hadn’t been here since finishing the walk in 1974. Took some photos before having […]

I forgot to mention that I added some new shots taken from the Les Arcs ski area.There are views of Mont Blanc, Grande Sassiere and Mont Pourri. Cloud inversion on all except Mont Pourri shot make for some dramatic views […]

Nearing the end of our second full day in Edinburgh.Lots of sunshine and fluffy clouds. Sunny spells and windy yesterday. Very wet when we arrived Friday so no pictures until yesterday. Started in coastal village of Cramond for views and […]

Off to Edinburgh on Friday. Meeting best friends Mike and Kay from Kirkhill, north of Inverness. I need photos of Edinburgh for a show that we are doing there at the end of November and our local guides will be […]

The Great Dome Art Fair is over for another year. It was great to see lots of old friends and meet so many new ones. I tweaked my back this morning before show opening so was pretty much drugged up […]

Hot Air Balloons in the dark at Chateau d’Oex and the Alpine Pass Route around Kandersteg are just 2 of the areas covered in this new set of photographs. The Balloon Festival is at the end of january every year […]

Thought I should extend my Welsh photographs so have added several of Snowdon and a few of, and from, the Glyders. They should be on the site by 23rd July. Dave Butcher Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

Finally, I have scanned and edited some images from a ski mountaineering trip to the Otztal region of Austria that I made in 1994. There are shots from several summits including the highest in the region, Wild Spitz. Taken over […]

Quite a few Ben Nevis, Mamores, Grey Corries and Loch Treig photographs have been added to my web site from my picture library. Lots more Scottish Highlands photographs to be added over the coming weeks and months. Dave Butcher Dave […]

I have just emailed some new Dovedale and Lathkill Dale images to my web man so they should appear on the new site in a day or so. Here is a taster. The Dovedale one was looking towards the stepping […]

I have added quite a few Lake District black and white photographs to the new web site. Locations include the Langdales, Elterwater, Grasmere, Rydal Water, Derwent Water, Castlerigg stone circle, Scafell, Scafell Pike, Skiddaw, Blencathra and the Bowfell range. Both […]

I have started adding new images to the web site. There are new images of Cheshire in the Landscapes and City sections. They include Dunham Massey, Lyme Park, Shutlingsloe and Chester. There are some infra-red images on Ilford SFX film […]

My new web site now has a small number of black and white photographs from a recent trip to Ireland. Images of Dublin (see photo), Cork and County Kerry are included. The trip was based around an order for photographs […]

At long last my new web site has gone live. It has a full shopping cart, rapid keyword search system, my events diary to the end of 2010 and beyond and lots of other things. It will let me add […]

Well it’s nearly complete! My new web site is fully operational on its test server. All images are loaded. The gallery is driven by keywords to make it more manageable, particularly when I have much larger numbers of images available. […]

The structure of the new site has been finished for a while and we are now working to add everything, and more, from the www.davebutcher.net site before it goes live. There will be so many pictures on it within a […]

This is short notice, but if you want to learn how to take stunning black and white landscapes in the Derbyshire Peak District National Park then there are places available for my courses this coming weekend, Friday 12th and Saturday […]

We returned from the Lakes yesterday evening. I had intended to update this blog in the evenings during our trip but there was no mobile phone signal in Eskdale so it had to wait until today, Monday 8th June. This […]

We are off to Eskdale in the English Lake District Thursday 4th June (later today!). I need some more photographs for my next book (out March 2010). Fingers crossed that the weather is better than forecast. Looks like heavy rain […]