Facebook Live Broadcast – 12/3/16
I did a Facebook Live broadcast on December 3, 2016, talking about the workshops and answering questions… check it out!
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Tuscany – Video Postcards from the 2017 Workshop Locations
In early November, I took a scouting trip to the places we’ll visit on the 2017 Tuscany Photography Workshop and did a few Facebook Live videos from Carrara, Lucca and Barga. We’ll also visit the Cinque Terre (5 lands) area of neighboring Liguria and more. The Devil’s Bridge – Near Barga, Tuscany Lucca –…
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4 Essential Italy Travel Tips
Here are 4 essential truths about Italian travel that I’ve learned in more than 25 years of exploring and photographing there. 1: Don’t Try To See It All This is the biggest mistake that most travelers make. Think about trying to see your own country in one fell swoop; it can’t be done. Instead, concentrate…
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9 Essential Italy Photography Tips
Here are 9 things that I’ve learned while leading photography workshop experiences in Italy: 1: Community Is Key Keeping my groups to just 7 students means that everyone gets to know each other well, which means that sharing vision, insights, tips and more comes easily. That sense of community is built equally well in…
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Photograph Tuscany’s Eternal Moments
Tuscany Photography Workshop Improve your photographic mastery in the land of great artistic masters. Spend a week living and breathing photography in the timeless Italian region of Tuscany for a personal journey into this land of the eternal moment. Northwestern Tuscany is an area that is not frequently visited by tourists. Serenely beautiful towns like Lucca…
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Your Italy, Your Photographs, Your Story
“… a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller’s art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.” – Rebecca Solnit When I read the quote above by the writer Rebecca Solnit, I immediately thought about a primary goal I…
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2016 Italian Lakes Photo Workshop, Group 2 – Student Slideshows
What a great week! Sun, lovely lake breezes and a wonderfully small and cohesive group of talented photographers led to a really wonderful workshop experience. The presentations below are a small sample of their interpretations of “the romance of the lakes.” Barbara 1 Barbara 2 David Shirley
