Photography
Welcome to the Photography area of the Explorations section of the site. Here you’ll find photo-related articles including photo tours, tips and new techniques I’m trying and sharing so you can try them too.
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Goerlitz is one of Germany’s most beautiful cities but one unfamiliar to most Americans. Take this photographer’s walking tour to see the highlights and explore some hidden wonders.
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When visiting The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia, the best thing you can do there is to look up. Its a practice that once you try it, you’ll begin to find wonders every time you stop and look up.
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Cropping is an underappreciated art used mostly by photographers. But it has interesting and important implications for improving your trip as well.
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Photo tours can be wonderful ways to improve your photography and have a great trip. But it helps to know what to look for and what to ask before you take one.
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If you have a stopover in Frankfurt, Germany, use your time well with this DIY photographer’s walking tour of the highlights of the city.
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See – and photograph – downtown Los Angeles in a new way I call this the photographer’s DIY walking tour of downtown LA, but you you don’t have to be a photographer to benefit from this self-guided tour of the highlights of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA). Here I offer you a route with stops along the way at some of DTLA’s most popular locations. At each one, I’ve…
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Collecting, particularly on a trip, looks different to different people. For some, collecting is an end to itself. You travel in order to find objects that you tote home and add to some existing collection (or that start a new one). For others, collecting is only a means to an end. They find that the best things to collect aren’t things per se but sparks of the imagination,…
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We all seem drawn to taking sunset photographs, especially on trips. But often the results disappoint. Here are 10 tips on how to take better sunset photographs.
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