When I visited Utah last time, I knew there was one place that I absolutely wanted to visit, called Cathedral Valley, in Capitol Reef National Park. The problem and the beauty of Cathedral Valley is that it’s a remote place, reachable only via a long dirt road that crosses several sandy washes and requires fording the Fremont River. Getting there …
Nisyros, A Little Known Gem Of The Aegean
The Aegean Sea contains hundreds of islands within its confines, many of them popular tourist destinations, like Mykonos, Santorini, Naxos, Kos, and Rhodes. Popularity has its benefits and those islands are certainly beautiful, but it also has its drawbacks, like huge crowds, commercialization and homogenization. Having recently seen a McDonald’s and an Irish pub in the streets of Kos made …
Morocco’s Blue Pearl – Discovering the beauty of Chefchaouen
Gently laid down on the slopes of the Rif mountains in northern Morocco, beneath the peaks that gave it its name (derived from the Berber word for “goat’s horns”), Chefchaouen is a delight of narrow paved streets between houses whitewashed and painted in tones of powder blue, intriguing crafts shops, small restaurants, boutique hotels and hostels catering to the backpacking …
Three Days, Three National Parks
I’ve been home for a few days already, but my eyes are still filled with the beauty of the places in southern Utah’s canyon country. In just a bit more than three days’ time, I managed to get to Arches NP, Canyonlands NP and my favorite, Capitol Reef NP. I managed to get some images of all of them, plus …
Along The Coast Of New England
“Along The Coast Of New England – A Photographic Journey From Boston To Pemaquid Point” is the title of my latest book of photographs, all of them collected during my recent trip to New England. Along The Coast Of New England by Ugo Cei | Make Your Own Book You can snatch a printed copy from Blurb at …
Postcards from Cinque Terre
Yesterday, while I was returning home from a business trip to Pisa, I decided to take a detour with the intention of taking some sunset/dusk pictures in Vernazza, one of the Cinque Terre. After a long drive along very narrow, steep mountain roads, I parked my car a short distance from the town, which is a car-free, walked down to …