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iPhone Travel Photography Hits it Big

We’ve all done this wrong. We travel a long way to Paris or Venice or Bangkok. We’d like to have some we-were-here shots of famous city buildings, monuments, public art and places. Often we get just a few moments on a bus, bicycle or walking tour [...]

Planning “National Geographic” style photo travel

Great photographic experiences are often hit or miss, when you don’t have travel support and pre-arrangements to meet the right people, the right places and be there at the exact right time of day.  Scenery may be breathtaking, but it’s people [...]

Cuba photo travel adventure update

Everybody knows the mystique of old Habana. Colorful past, music, art and poetry. Incredible 50‘s and 60‘s cars carefully maintained. Beautiful old houses. Glamorous show clubs and equally glamorous tropical paradise. But Cuba has been out of [...]

Cuba! 2012 dream trip for photographers

Photographers' Christmas in Taos: travelogue and romance

Anatomy of a Staged Travel Photograph

 One of the dances that Bali is famous for is the Kecak dance.  It can consist of 50 or 60 people and it’s highly stylized and quite fascinating to see.  The problem in photographing it as a tourist is that it is performed at night with [...]

What Type of Photographer Are You?

What Type of Photographer Are You?  “My favorite thing is to go where I've never been before.” - Diane Arbus And yes, that is one way to look at things. Photographers are like other people. Some like to go back to the same place every [...]

Problem solving with Photoshop

Photoshop can solve problems that would have been impossible just a few years ago when we all shot film. A case in point is the picture of the beautiful mosaic I took a couple of days ago in the ancient site of Ephesus in Turkey. There is a group of houses [...]

Perspective Correction in Travel Photography

 Wide angle lenses are great for architectural photography but often create the “falling over” building look that doesn’t always create the classic look that can be produced with a view camera or a Tilt-Shift lens or as Nikon [...]

Audiocast Review — The Photographer's Eye Field Guide

This three minute audiocast review strongly recommends an outstanding, compact book. Click on the link below to listen, please. the_photographers_eye.MP3 Here is the official Focal Press web site for The Photographer's Eye. This book has great information and [...]

Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment

Puerto Rico is the best of two worlds! As a Caribbean island it is the smallest of the Greater Antilles yet it’s part of the United States so you don’t need a passport to visit. Located in the northeastern Caribbean, Puerto Rico is just a [...]

Fashion photography in Indonesia

One of the most exciting photo events I’ve had the pleasure of shooting is the fashion carnival in Jember, Indonesia. My photo tour group were blown away by the images they were able to capture. The costumes are truly outlandish.  Anything goes in [...]

Diffused light for outdoor portraiture

I’m leading a photo tour to Indonesia right now, and one of the things I do for my groups is preconceive classic images that represent the culture and then I set them up.  In the picture you see here, I arranged to photograph two young Balinese [...]

Travel photography portraits

Travel photography is often frustrating because you can’t always be in the right place at the right time with the right lighting. What usually happens, though, is you breeze in and out of a village or town relying on serendipity to get good shots.  [...]