Recently, I was summoned to Italy by Scott Kelby and Mimo Meidany – both well-known shooters and excellent instructors – to attend their 10-person travel photography workshop. Toscana was, in a word, bellissima.
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We spent eight glorious days in Japan with Ari and Hannah exploring Tokyo, Hakone, and Kyoto by foot, e-bike, bus, subway, taxi, and bullet train.
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Grey skies created some opportunities for dramatic light and color in my photos during a week-long visit to Paris in October 2022. The place was extremely crowded due, in part, to the strength of the U.S. dollar and pent-up demand for travel post-Covid. I did my best to avoid the tourists and tried not to shoot them.
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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Samuel Johnson
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We started our adventure in Lausanne, staying in the tower of a lakeside castle at Château d'Ouchy with spectacular views of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) and the Alps.
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It was the movie "In Bruges," made in 2008 with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, that prompted us to say, “Let’s go there some day.”
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Five of my black+white fine art architectural travel photographs were selected by jurors for a show called “Architects as Artists” at Honolulu’s Downtown Art Center.
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Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Assignment: Capture the carnivalesque essence of the city – its places and faces – in a few short days.
Camera of choice: Mirrorless Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III with a 12-100mm zoom lens.
I arrived at the Festival Capital of the World in time to catch the Annual Gay Easter Parade, stayed through the French Quarter Fest, and left before even bigger crowds descended for the Jazz Festival.
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In May 2021, my wife and I took our post-Covid-lockdown, vaccinated bodies to a neighbor island to celebrate my 70th birthday.
It was our first time off the rock in 15 months.
Read MoreOn a pre-Covid-19 trip with my wife to Turkey, our departing flight to Cappadocia through Istanbul (the world’s largest airport) was delayed for over an hour. So… despite running breathlessly through IST from one terminal to the next, we missed our connection. The good news: we got rebooked a few hours later on a flight departing at 1:15 in the morning.
Read MoreNot just any market. This is the Edirnekapı Kuş Pazarı, otherwise known as the Bird Market, which takes place every Sunday in Istanbul. Hundreds of men gather here (I didn’t see a single woman) to buy and sell pigeons, which go for anywhere between the equivalent of $3 and $300 U.S. dollars.
Read MoreOn this trip sponsored by “The Nation” magazine, my wife and I traveled by bus over eight days to four states we had never visited before, didn’t sleep much, learned a ton, ate mostly fried food, got to know 27 traveling companions, and met with individuals at each stop who told us very personal stories about their experiences with racism. What we saw was unforgettable and unforgivable.
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