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We are exhibiting at Buxton Summer Fete in Pavilion Gardens this weekend. Open until 5pm both days. We have lots of new work and show offers. Jan has her colour photos too. Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

I have added a lot of new photographs to my web gallery. These are from various trips over the years and include ski mountaineering and skiing. Locations include: the Gran Paradiso area of northwest Italy near Aosta.  The Bernese Oberland […]

It’s the last day of the Artist and Designer Fair at Pavilion Gardens in Buxton. We have lots of photographs, including new ones. Jan has her colour photos on the stand too. Come and have a chat with us. Dave […]

Our last day of the 80 mile 8 day circular walk around the Lake District over all of the English 3000 foot mountains and as many others as I could reasonably fit into our route. Today was Coniston to Boot […]

It was a late breakfast today, our Grasmere hotel didn’t open thebreakfast room until 8.30 am. No good if you have a big day on the hills. Fortunately we didn’t, it was almost a rest day walking to Coniston. The […]

Oh dear, we feared the worst. Rain forecast all day! It was supposed to be showery though so I packed my Mamiya 7 camera, Gitzo tripod and Ilford FP4 film. The rain started as we stepped out of the hotel […]

Short day today at 7.5 miles and 3.5 hours. Just as well as about 30 minutes after leaving the Inn in Threlkeld a heavy shower forced us to put on full waterproofs. It rained for the next 3 hours. I […]

So much for weather forecasts. Today the Met Office and BBC told us to expect heavy rain showers all day. In fact we had no rain at all and lots of sunshine. It was a great day on the hills! […]

No Wifi in Stonethwaite. What a disaster, no blogging tonight. The forecast was for thunderstorms so we had an early breakfast to make sure we were on our way by 9am. We wanted to be off the high ground before […]

Friday 6th June 2014. What a contrast to yesterday, we awoke to wall to wall blue sky. Looked like the forecast was right! Jolly good breakfast at the Wasdale Head Hotel, just what we needed before a big day on […]

Today was our first day of the 8 day circular walk around the Lake District that I’ve planned. I was hoping for some bright spells this afternoon so I carried my Mamiya 7 camera and Gitzo tripod in my rucsac. […]

I’m in the Lake District with good friend Al from Gloucester. We have joined up for our annual walking cum photography trip. We are walking for 8 days over the highest mountains in England, 75 miles in total, starting and […]

I have added some new images of Glen Coe to my web gallery on davebutcher.co.uk. Here’s a link to just the new ones. They were taken over several trips in summer and winter, with and without snow. Hope you like […]

In the summer of 2005 my wife Jan and I visited our best friends Rob and Annie in Boulder Colorado. I had some locations in mind for photographs but needed to check what else was out there. Soon after arriving […]

I have added quite a few new images of San Francisco to my website. All taken in January and February this year. Transamerica Pyramid Bay Bridge Bay Bridge and Moon Union Square Palace of the Arts B Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk […]

We’re exhibiting at the Living Crafts show at Hatfield House marquee G. Open 10am to 5pm every day to Sunday. Jan’s colour photos on the stand too! Lots of new photos including some that are also in the City Light […]

We have put up a new exhibition in the Art Cafe in Buxton Pavilion Gardens called City Light. It is mainly photographs from my recent book of the same name. There are a total of 41 framed photographs, all taken […]

For some time I have been thinking about separating my main website www.davebutcher.co.uk from the technical information in order to improve navigation. I have been actively working on this, with Andy Oakey my web and marketing man from Sheffield, for […]

We’re exhibiting at the Easter Extravaganza in Buxton Pavilion Gardens for the next 4 days. 10am to 5pm every day. Free entry. 60-odd exhibitors. Lots of photos and some of Jan’s colour prints for the first time on our stand. […]

I have just scanned 7 new images of the exterior of the Shard in London and added them to the website. Here’s a selection. They were all taken on 10th January with quite a good sky at times but rain […]

The last 3 days we have been skiing in Colorado. Tuesday at Arapahoe Basin, Wednesday and Thursday at Beaver Creek. All days were cold with poor visibility so I did a lot of skiing and no photography. I didn’t even […]

The weather brightened up the last couple of days. Lots of sunshine after fresh snow. Yesterday we snowshoed about 7 miles in Rocky Mountain National Park. We went up to Cub Lake and down to the Fern Lake trail to […]

Actually several walks in the snow! We have been walking around the Boulder Foothills the last few days. There has been some fresh snow to brighten things up but it needs a bit of sunshine to help the photos. We […]

The Mamiya 7 is a rangefinder camera, which means it is not possible to look through the lens, so normal polarising filters are difficult to use. Fortunately Mamiya make a special filter that gets around the problem. The bad news […]

Another 3 days skiing and 2 days walking without my camera gear, but with visits to 3 breweries all in great weather, has helped look after my aching back! After Keystone on Tuesday we skied Breckenridge on Wednesday and Thursday. […]

We skied Keystone in Colorado today. First time we had put skis on in 2 years but it soon came back. I decided to have the day off from photography and left the camera behind. I already have shots of […]

We have moved on from San Francisco and we are now with good friends Rob and Annie in Boulder in Colorado. Saturday was a travel day. Sunday we had a leisurely walk to the J Wells Brewery and a jolly […]

We thought we would try looking at San Francisco from a different angle so we took the ferry across to Sausolito. It takes about 30 minutes. It was sunny and warm again but not clear like the last 2 days. […]

Another day of photography in San Francisco with blue skies and temperatures over 20°C. They’re having a tough winter over here! Today I took shots of the Bay Bridge, Transamerica Pyramid, Yerba Buena and a few others. Now we’re in […]

We are in San Francisco on a photo trip. Clear blue skies and 19°C yesterday, also clear views which was good. That’s warmer than Derbyshire in the summer! Took quite a few shots, all on Ilford FP4, around Fisherman’s Wharf […]

In amongst the new images of London are 3 new images of Manchester. They are all shown here and are on the main website. Beetham Tower / Hilton Hotel Castlefield Merchants Bridge Reflections Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

Not wanting to be idle over the break we decided to go down to London just after Christmas to take photos! Fortunately we had reasonable weather, except for some light rain as we arrived. I mainly concentrated on shots I […]

I added 22 new images of Bruges to my web site before Christmas. A mix of daytime and quite a few taken at night. Here is a selection. Follow this link to the Bruges page on my web site. All […]

New photo of the Shard, this one taken on my phone but proper one taken using my Mamiya 7. Great day for photos in London today. We finished our whistle stop photo trip with shots of the Shard, Monument, Guildhall, […]

We are in London for a day or so taking photos to add to my picture library. Today was wet and dull until early afternoon and then really good light until dark. Smithfield and Spitalfields (image attached taken on phone […]

Out for a walk in the Peak District with good friend Peter Moore from Kenilworth. Took this tree on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone and edited in Snapseed. The wind was strong and made it tricky to check the image […]

We are exhibiting at the Craft in Focus Christmas Contemporary Craft show at RHS Wisley. Jan is doing it on her own to save my bad back which has taken a bit of a beating over the last few weeks. […]

I’m in Buxton Pavilion Gardens running Gallery in the Gardens all day. After 6 days at the Ideal Home show in Earls Court in London and 5 at the NEC immediately before that it was good to get out walking […]

It was a busy and full day at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court today. We were open for 11 hours, closing at 9pm. I wandered around taking a few photos as the crowds thinned out late on. […]

Our stand at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court in London is now finished. We are on the ground floor stand 1F118. For more information click here.  www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk Here are the stand photos to show the display and […]

Set up and ready for the Ideal Home Christmas Show www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk at Earls Court. Our stand is 1F118 on the ground floor. Lots of show offers. Lots of new pictures. Large stand. They hadn’t laid the aisle carpets when we […]

It’s the first day of the ICHF Crafts for Christmas Show at the Birmingham NEC today. It runs until Sunday 9am to 5.30pm, 5pm Sunday. We have a few hundred darkroom prints here at Good prices. All 4 of my […]

While I am lecturing at PhotoLive 2013 Jan is running our stand at the Craft in Focus show at Wellington College Crowthorne,  near Bracknell. The last day is tomorrow, Sunday 27th October. The picture is one Jan took of the […]

All set up ready for the starting pistol of PhotoLive 2013 www.photo-live.com! Expecting lots of people today for the dozens of lectures, hopefully some will come to mine! My lectures today are. The Art of Monochrome City Scenes, 10 to […]

The new PhotoLive 2013 event in London is fast approaching. It is being run by Future Publishing whose titles include Photography Week, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, NPhoto and Practical Photoshop. I am one of the 30-odd lecturers for the 2 day […]

In July we visited Berlin for a few days, all planned around taking photographs of the city. The films have been processed a while and here is a taster of them. More on my web site. Brandenburg Gate at Night Bode […]

Apologies but I’m a bit behind with my blog posts. It’s been a bit busy since we returned home from the Alps, with no sign of a let-up yet. We left Switzerland on the 17th September and had one night […]

We are having a few days to ourselves in Grindelwald. On Friday, the first day after finishing the Alpine Pass Route on Thursday, we had a short walk with Rob to the lakes near the First lift above the village. […]

Another good start to the day. Dry but cold. Clouds on the tops though. Started in the best way by catching the cable car to the top! Good view behind us over Trubsee Lake (lake photo taken by Jan as […]

Today started where yesterday ended, with rain and low cloud. The Hotel Alpina in Unterschächen was good and most of our clothes were dry. The walking was not that memorable, being mostly along or close to roads. The town of […]