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I was invited by Scott Kelby to join him and Mimo Meidany for four days down under in Sydney, Australia, with 10 other experienced photographers.
I grew up 30 minutes north of New York City. As a member of the Mason Tenders' union, I did construction work in Manhattan during the summers that I was studying architecture in college. But I never created photographs of the Big Apple ... until now.
In late September of 2025, I joined a group of four accomplished photographers for a photography workshop led by Kathy Lichtendahl in and around Yellowstone National Park. My hope was to see a part of the U.S. that was new to me, learn some new skills, and return home with some fun wildlife shots and distinctive landscape images.
Invited by photographers Scott Kelby and Mimo Meidany, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be among a small group shooting in Venice, despite the 12-hour time difference and the fact that I spent as much time getting there and back as being there.
I flew to Aspen, Colorado hoping to catch some great autumnal colors over the last weekend in September. I was not disappointed.
We joined a group of nine other travelers and two guides on a five-day trip on e-bikes through the towns, vineyards, and farmlands of the Alsace region of France, starting out in Strasbourg (near the border with Germany).
Driving into Copenhagen from the airport, we saw instantly why this is the most bicycle-friendly capital in the world. The investment in infrastructure has payed off handsomely, since they created the first bike lane in 1892! Today, year-round, 50% of all trips to work and school in Copenhagen are taken by bike.
When I joined seven other photographers for a four-day experience in New Mexico led by Muench Workshop expert instructors Wayne Suggs and Pam Dorner, it was January and the temperature was in the teens.
Off to another photo workshop, I figured Santorini would be spectacular. It exceeded my expectations in every way.
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.
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.
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.
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Samuel Johnson
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.
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.”
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.
On 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.
On 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.