Modena Sunrise If you’re looking for a easy and rewarding region in Italy to visit using public transport, there are few better recommendations than central Emilia-Romagna. All the main towns you should check out are well connected by rail. Unlike Tuscany and Umbria, where the countryside is a major attraction, I feel you’re not missing […]
Venice Sunrise Panorama In 2023 I made two trips to Italy. I had already visited what is geographical a pretty small country over a dozen times. What keeps me going back for more? To answer this question it is necessary to first understand that Italy as a unified country is rather young, the nation-state being
Motukiekie at Low Tide Most comprehensive tours of the south island will be loosely based on travelling a loop around the whole or part of the island. Photographers will be going to New Zealand hoping to shoot the many different types of landscapes on offer such as mountains, rainforests, waterfalls, fiords, plains and seascapes. When
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View to Mount Cook Recently Vanessa evaluated her portfolio and suggested that she needed more autumn colours as well as adding to her sparse handful of New Zealand images so she could put up a gallery on her website. Why not do both and visit NZ in autumn I said? I had work commitments till
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Onwards to the big one, Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park. Both of these big ticket locations have dedicated sunrise and sunset viewing areas which can get fairly crowded so it’s best to arrive early and set up at the spot of your choice. The sunset spot at Uluru in particular gets busy and you’ll
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The red dust of the Australian outback leaves a lasting impression. I mean that literally as I glance down at discoloured suede of my casual shoes well over a month after finishing a 5 month road trip circling the western half of the country. Of course the red dust also permeates everything else whether that
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Remember me? I used to be a fairly prolific blogger on Magic Hour Travelscapes as a professional travel and landscape photographer, managed to win some awards, was regularly published in magazines and ran photo workshops. My domain actually got stolen about 8 years ago but I felt at that point, I had already written everything
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