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I recently had the pleasure of taking part as a guest pro in M&M Photography Tours’ Best of Italy photo tour. In the past two weeks this has led me, together with M&M’s founder Mike Gulbraa and some wonderful guests, to some of my favorite locations around my home country. We visited Venice, Burano, Florence, Pisa, Lucca, the Cinque Terre, …
This is a photo I took during my last visit to Venice. I had taken the vaporetto to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in the Venetian Lagoon, hoping to get a few great sunset photos. Actually the day had been for the most part gloomy, but the forecast said there would be openings in the cloud cover, so I went …
I took some time today to sit down with my collaborator Robin Yong and chat about his passion for travel portraits and some of the amazing locations he has visited. Robin has been collaborating with me during my past workshops at the Carnival of Venice and will be doing so next year as well. Check out the tour page to …
The Carnival season in Venice has just finished and so did my photography workshop there. As we were getting close to the starting date, I started receiving questions from my guests regarding what equipment they should bring and especially what lenses. As this is a frequently asked question, I decided that it would be a good idea to collect my suggestions …
One year after my latest foray into Venice for the Carnival I was back there with a new group of students, new equipment and a number of new ideas about portrait lighting that I wanted to experiment, having at my disposal an endless supply of subjects in the form of some of the most beautiful Venetian masks. You can find …
Like a modern Geppetto, Roberto Comin slowly and carefully chips away at blocks of pinewood to make unique creations in his workshop in Venice. Without a shop window and betrayed only by a discreet sticker affixed to an anonymous iron gate, L’isola di Pinocchio is not easy to find. I didn’t know about its existence until a good friend of mine asked …
Who doesn’t love Venice? And who doesn’t love to photograph Venice? For someone who visits Venice for the first time, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the possibilities and risk missing some of the best locations. Over the years, I’ve ended up compiling a list of my favorite locations to which I return again and again to photograph them …
I was recently in Venice during the Carnival celebrations, leading a workshop there. One of the things we wanted to teach our attendees was an introductory lesson on off-camera flash photography. This is kind of a necessity during the heyday of Carnevale di Venezia, which can be pretty crowded and chaotic. Forget about taking photos of the most extravagant costumes …
I was recently in Venice during the Carnival celebrations, leading a workshop there. One of the things we wanted to teach our attendees was an introductory lesson on off-camera flash photography. This is kind of a necessity during the heyday of Carnevale di Venezia, which can be pretty crowded and chaotic. Forget about taking photos of the most extravagant costumes …
I have been to Venice many times, but for some reason I never took the chance to visit the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, an amazing masterpiece of Renaissance architecture and painting. All the paintings in the building are by Tintoretto or other members of his school and they decorate every wall and ceiling, especially those of the great hall on the …
