Italy Within The Frame – Day 5 – San Fruttuoso
There is something magical about arriving at a new place by boat. I am not sure whether it is the stirring of an evocative past of transatlantic steamers voyaging to the New World or the throwback to family holidays where the ferry – however rusty and battered – magically transported us from reality to vacation [...]
Italy Within The Frame- Day 4 -Camogli
As we left Monterosso for Camogli this morning it seemed that we were leaving behind a landscape of opportunity, color and precariously perched towns that seemed to be just a momentary lapse away from sliding into the rocky Ligurian coastline. How wrong can you be – well about the color and opportunity at least! As [...]
Italy within The Frame – Day 3 – Manarola and Vernazza
Day 3 of our Italy Within The Frame with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman began at our now customary leisurely pace, with a short train ride through the tunnels and along the dramatic Cinque Terre coastline, to the second of the Cinque Terre towns that we were visiting, Manarola. The tiny train station sandwiched precariously [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 2 Monterosso
We are using the quaint seaside Cinque Terre town of Monterossa al mare as a base for the next couple of days as we explore the beautiful National Heritage coastline, of Liguria. Inevitably the weight of expectation is beginning to impact most of us. The frustration of being drawn to something initially appealing, but then [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day 1 Genova
The threatened rain had disappeared to leave a warm spring morning as the Italy within the Frame group set out for our first full day of photo workshop, in Genova, Italy. David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman are organized a very gentle paced walk around the old streets of Genova, helping direct us through the narrow [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day minus 1
The months of waiting for the chance to spend a week in Italy, immersed in exploring my own personal photographic vision “within the frame”, have finished and we are now in Genova, with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. This morning – before the main group arrived – I went out with Jeffrey Fielding to wander [...]
Giants Causeway within the frame
With only a fortnight to go before I head to Italy to participate in a week-long workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman, it was important for me to start thinking about landscape photography again. The workshop, although called Italy with in the Frame, promises to be a healthy mix of street portraiture and landscape [...]
Whirling Dervishes in Cairo
Every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday night the Al–Tannoura traditional dance Troup perform their spectacle of music and whirling dervish dance to 250 lucky guests shows in the Wekalata el-Ghouri Arts centre in Cairo. The tickets for these are free as both the location is owned by and the Troup employed by the Egyptian Ministry of [...]
Why location, luck and gear is not enough
When I first started taking photography seriously about 18 months a go I naively thought that taking a powerful portrait – particularly travel or street portraiture – was really just because the fulltime photographer was always in an exotic place, with a great camera and of course in those type of locations you really just [...]
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