Last week saw me in Austria for a ski holiday. After much deliberation (and some threatening from my wife) I decided to leave my DSLR at home. The risk of breaking it in a fall (I'm not a very good skier) or it causing problems on lifts etc (I'm really not a very good skier) was too high for me to take the chance.

I'm not sure it was the right decision. From an artistic point of view the mountains and the weather was fantastic for photo. We had days of snow, days of glorious sunshine and days which swapped between the two. But, given how much I fell over, it probably made sense...

I did take my E550 with me on a couple of days though. Some of the photographs came out quite well.

You can see a few more pictures here.

The reality is I probably forgot every lesson I'd learned about landscapes due to a combination of altitude, hangover, lack of fitness and general "wowiness" of the view. Still, if next Christmas your postcard looks suspiciously home made with a view of some mountains in the snow, you might be able to guess why...