Every picture is a memory. Every time we press the shutter on the camera we are freezing a moment of history so we can preserve it forever. It sounds monumentous doesn't it, but it's not: Facebook will certainly tell you otherwise. I log on each day to see the myriad of photos that my so-called 'friends' vomit onto my homepage. Not only do people upload a sequence of the same picture - I have two of them so why not use them - but the other people in the picture will also post their versions of it. The result? Monster albums clogging up the internet providing the CIA with plenty of material should anyone need blackmailing in the future...


It is an age-old question, though. How do we make our holiday photos interesting to the general public? How do we step away from the necessity to have 'been there' to really appreciate someone else's pictures? And, while we're at it, how can we remove this insane fashion for de-tagging and portraying this hideously false image on Facebook? There is no hard and fast solution - no tried and tested method to solve this, but I think I may have hit upon a compromise.


May I invite you to read on...

Thursday, 9 February 2012

A Jump with a View

We'd waited for our cable car and managed to get to the top of a small mountain overlooking Lago Maggiore on one side, Mont Blanc on the other. It was beautiful - the air was fresh and the horizon had a haze over it that made everything look softer.

Looking out at the view reminded me of the time I went to Mont Blanc. We took the train part of the way up the mountain and walked around. We wandered, I had a wee in a draughty squat (truly an eye-opening experience) and then we went back down the mountain.

I love the mountains.

I really love the mountains.

I would much prefer to go to the mountains than to the beach. There's something special and wonderful about being high up and looking at the pristine world below. The air is fresh and there's so much of it too: it's freeing (pretentious, but true).

I've always wanted to do proper mountaineering. Bear Grylls took Miranda Hart up to the Alps for a couple of days trekking - I would write and star in a sitcom just to be able to do that! But alas all I've managed is a stroll around about a third of the way up Mont Blanc, and even then I took the train.

So even though it's totally inadequate, about four years later when I found myself eye-balling Mont Blanc from afar, I thought I'd do the next best thing for me, and take a jumping picture...

Soft Walk to Horizon
Lago Maggiore, Italy, 2009
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Location: Lake Maggiore

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