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…
At the crossroads of the Mediterranean, the gorgeous island of Sicily continues to seduce travelers with its diversity of landscapes, spectacular architecture and warm and inviting people. Sicily provides everything from ancient architecture to stunning masterpieces of the Baroque in its relatively small footprint. Presiding over all of this is Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active…
I did a Facebook Live broadcast on December 3, 2016, talking about the workshops and answering questions… check it out!
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
“… 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…