5 Essential Italy Photography Tips
Here are five things I’ve learned while guiding beginner, intermediate, and advanced photographers through some of Italy’s most beautiful places.
Here are five things I’ve learned while guiding beginner, intermediate, and advanced photographers through some of Italy’s most beautiful places.
A very lively group of workshop students spent a week in the sunny Italian lakes of Como and Maggiore. Our first few days were on Lake Como, photographing in and around the beautiful towns of Menaggio, Bellagio and Varenna. We then made a brief foray into Ticino, an Italian-speaking region in southern Switzerland with charming…
A day or so of off-and-on drizzle gave way to a great week of sunny (if hazy) light for this lovely group of workshoppers. Starting in the lovely town of Menaggio on Lake Como, we used the efficient lake ferry system to make our way across the lake to the towns of Bellagio and Varenna,…
The ancient hill town of Cortona was cool and rainy earlier in May, but when this group rolled in at the end of the month, they brought the sun with them. We were treated to a string of warm days and crisp, clear nights—the kind of weather that makes late spring in Tuscany feel like…
A few spots remain in my Summer 2024 Italy Photography Workshops Registration Closes Soon – Reserve Your Spot Now! Tuscany WorkshopMay 31 to June 7, 2024 The gorgeous Tuscan hill town that is featured in the book and movie Under The Tuscan Sun, will be our home base for a fantastic week of photography in this under-visited…
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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 –…
“… 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…