Hotel Room with a View
I like to photograph from my hotel room, and I make a point of requesting rooms with a view. Sometimes this works. There's nothing particularly characteristic of Milan, Italy in…
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October 31, 2016
Saint-Sulpice at Dusk
This is an image I made earlier this year outside the wonderful Saint-Sulpice in Paris as day faded to night (see this earlier story, also this one, and also this…
October 1, 2016
Carcassonne in Black & White
The techniques shown in this image---bracketed sequence photography, processing for extended dynamic range, layer stack monochromatic conversion, all with an added antique effect---are detailed in my new book. It is…
September 3, 2016
Nocturnes Exhibition and Competition at the Southeast Center for Photography
I am the juror for Nocturnes a competition and exhibition based around night photography at the Southeast Center for Photography. Here's the description: A nocturne is a musical composition that is…
May 25, 2016
Carcassonne at Night
Coming back to my base in Carcassonne after a long day of exploring Cathar castles---more on this later---I took my gear out on the old bridge after dark. Photographing back…
April 22, 2016
Cordes sur Ciel at Dawn
I set the alarm for an hour before sunrise. When it rang in the darkness well before dawn, I put on the warmest clothing I had with me and made…
April 18, 2016
Piazza San Marco at Night
One reason to photograph at night in a tourist destination is, as I explained in Photographing the Bridge of Sighs at Night, to avoid selfie-stick-toting tour groups. Another reason is…
December 4, 2015
Photographing the Bridge of Sighs at Night
The Ponte dei Sospiri, or Bridge of Sighs, is one of the most famous landmarks in Venice, Italy. It connects the Doge's Palace with a prison on the opposite side of the…
December 3, 2015
Positano
Positano has rightly been described as a town of cliff dwellers because it seems to defy the laws of gravity, with buildings connected via stairway after staircase. There are no…
November 8, 2015
San Francisco Dreams in Black and White
San Francisco dreams in black and white. Please come visit my new virtual gallery of San Francisco in Black and White! What goes on behind the shades in the lit…
April 10, 2015
An amusement park for adults
Downtown Porto, Portugal's second city, has aspects of an amusement park for adults, without being cloying. There's a great river with boats of every kind, an old town with ancient…
March 6, 2015
A room with a view
When I travel I always try to select hotels that are likely to have interesting views, and to request a room with a view if possible. Of course, my idea…
December 4, 2014
Travels with Samantha
I’m normally a map, or a map-and-compass, kind of guy. But when I rented my car in Portugal I also rented a navigation system. Getting lost in obscure foreign parts…
November 24, 2014
New York is a stage
I'm passing through New York with an appearance at PhotoPlus Expo on behalf of my sponsor Carl Zeiss, for whom I am a Camera Lens Ambassador. PhotoPlus is at the…
October 31, 2014
Night at the Louvre
Photographing after dark in the grand courtyard of the Louvre is always great fun. The pyramid becomes an abstraction, and is an interesting contrast in its modernity with the ornate…
May 2, 2014
Abroad at Home
Photographing with a group at Kirby Cove waiting for the full moon to rise behind the Golden Gate Bridge, it seemed to me that I live in one of the…
April 19, 2014
Looking back and thinking forward
I've been looking through my archives from last year in Paris---and finding many images that I want to process! Looking back at the crop from the spring of last year…
April 8, 2014
Louvre Reflection
I shot this image last year during a night photography session with my Paris photography workshop. Paris is a great city to photograph at night, with many opportunities for dramatic…
February 6, 2014