Mike Page

Sep 7
4 min

A Weekend in the Appenzell Alps

Sitting on the terrace of the Gasthaus Aescher on Saturday morning I couldn't help but think of an article I wrote last year about how I...

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Mike Page

Aug 27
5 min

The Photo that Took 1½ Years to Take

Sometimes photos take a little longer. I first saw an image of the chapel at the Wankerfleck (yeah, yeah, I know, stop giggling) a couple...

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The Secret to Great Photography (That the Experts Won't Tell You)

Mike Page

Jul 1
25 min

The Secret to Great Photography (That the Experts Won't Tell You)

There are lots of (so-called) experts out there who promise to let you in on the One Secret to unlocking your potential as a great...

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Mike Page

Jun 11
8 min

Wales Revisited - Back to the Roots

I remember the first camera I ever used - it was a little Kodak 110 back in the late 70s that I used in the back garden and on holidays,...

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Mike Page

Feb 16
6 min

Winter on the Seiser Alm

When we were freshly married and relatively new to the freedoms of living in mainland Europe in our 20s, we were full of wanderlust and...

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Mike Page

Jan 26
6 min

Prague Revisited

I. Don't. Like. Cities. As I dig deeper into my fifties, I've finally become better able to distinguish between what I'm supposed to like...

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Mike Page

Jan 5
3 min

A New Year, A New Start

It's the 4th January, so let me start with a (slightly) belated Happy New Year. I hope you are well as we look ahead to the next 12...

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Mike Page

Dec 3, 2022
3 min

Christmas in Kaltenberg

Everyone has their favourite season for photography. I genuinely think that mine's winter. There's a simplicity to a snowy landscape - a...

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Mike Page

Nov 11, 2022
0 min

Landscape Calendar 2023

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Mike Page

Sep 17, 2022
4 min

I'm Not Afraid of the Light Any More

Hello, my name is Mike. I'm a landscape photographer and I really, really struggle with sunsets. They should be the easiest things in the...

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Mike Page

Sep 11, 2022
6 min

Making the Most of Mushrooms with Macro

One of the fascinating aspects of photography for me is giving people a glimpse into a world that they would not otherwise see or giving...

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Mike Page

Sep 1, 2022
9 min

The Day I Fell In Love With The Alps

I can tell you the exact time and place that I fell in love with the Alps, almost to the minute. It was at Berghaus Alpiglen under the...

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Mike Page

Aug 25, 2022
4 min

Editing an Exposure-Bracketed Photo

Waking up in the Montafon region of western Austria a couple of weeks back I realised that it was 34 years to the day that I'd fallen in...

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Mike Page

Aug 8, 2022
5 min

It's (Not) All About The Puffins

Getting onto Skomer is a bit of a lottery. The ferry tickets are only available online and you have to book them weeks in advance in peak...

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Mike Page

Aug 6, 2022
4 min

South Wales Revisited

As I shared in a previous post, Wales will always have a special place in our hearts. In the post I wrote about our beginnings in...

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Mike Page

May 29, 2022
5 min

How I Edited a Photo of my Muse. Again.

I have a photographic muse. Don't worry Sharon (if you're reading this) - it´s not a she, it's a thing. And it's a thing that I keep...

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Mike Page

May 15, 2022
5 min

Solo Alpine Photo Tour

I was left to my own devices on Saturday morning, so I decided to head back to the Kenzenhütte region two months on from our first trip...

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Mike Page

Apr 21, 2022
4 min

The Slow Goodbye

It feels as though an era is coming to an end. Our connection with Wales started on a wet and windy afternoon in early 1986. Mum had...

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The Blog

Yes, yes, blogs are so 2010, I know. I was only 10 years behind the curve when I started...

Older blog entries can be found on my old Blogger site, the most recent ones are linked below

Ten (More) Below Zero

I think we're going to have to stop going to Norway in the winter. Last time a pandemic broke out. This time a war. This isn't a good track record. Nevertheless, we had a great week of...

Finding My Photographic Niche

We all have a photographic niche that is unique to us, an area where we can excel above all others. Yes, even you. You may not yet have the technical skills or equipment to exploit that niche, but...

Revisiting Old Haunts

I think we probably all have our favourite local places for photography. We're lucky where we are with my local little woodland and Lake Ammersee only 10 min away by car. One of my other go-to places...

The Mists of Winter

December deceived us. After a series of decent snowfalls through Advent we thought that we might see a white Christmas, or at the very least that we could get away to snow in the mountains over the holiday period. Unfortunately...