The glorious Sacré Cœur is a sublime and architecturally splendid Roman Catholic church in Paris. A joy to visit, I'd rate Sacré Cœur as a must see site.
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Here's how creative photography will enable you to make more visually dynamic and emotively powerful photos.
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This cluster of candles at Notre Dame Cathedral provided an opportunity for a close up photo. It’s a pretty straightforward picture, but then we often want to photograph subject matter that’s not overly complicated. How then, to make an interesting composition and evoke a sense of mood or drama?
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Kodachrome was a popular, high quality slide film manufactured by Kodak. I’ve worked in the photography industry for over forty years, eight of them at Kodak. Here's my opinion of Kodachrome film and it’s amazing legacy in the history of photography.
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Situated on a rocky outcrop, just 11 km north east of Anuradhapura the Mihintale site is of enormous spiritual significance to the Sinhalese as the place where Buddhism originated in Sri Lanka. The Buddha statue at Mihintale in Sri Lanka is huge and great fun to photograph.
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What does the term fill the frame in photography mean, and how can visual space and the rule of thirds improve your photos?
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La Boca is a colorful and busy tourist precinct in Buenos Aires. Photographing the cobblestone streets of El Caminito was a highlight of my La Boca visit. Here's how to photograph the colorful La Boca tourist precinct and the streets of El Caminito in Buenos Aires.
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Singapore is a modern, prosperous, clean and extremely safe island nation offering the tourist great cuisine, shopping, sightseeing and nature based experiences.
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Angels have long interested artists, scholars and philosophers. I’m writing this post to help you make great photos of angel statues on your own travels, whether you find them in distant lands or during local explorations of your own neighborhood.
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This photo shows me and some travel buddies surrounded by Buddhist prayer flags overlooking Leh, the capital of Ladakh, in northern India.
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At last, after hearing about it for years, I would finally get to photograph Tierra del Fuego National Park.
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A sunrise photo session in Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, will help refine your photo skills before the ongoing trip to Antarctica. Located in Tierra del Fuego province in Argentina, Ushuaia is the starting point for most cruises to the Antarctic Peninsular from the South American mainland.
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Ushuaia helicopter tours offer a fantastic photo experience with wonderful views of the landscape around the bottom of Argentina.
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I visited Stanley on a typically cool, overcast day. Gentle sunlight managed to break through the clouds several times during my photo walk, waking the village from its slumber and adding some visual punch to the photos I was making.
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Correct use of a Polarizing filter can be a great advantage when making photos on bright, blue sunny days when light, reflected off surfaces, is scattered in a way that adversely affects the impact of a photo by reducing image contrast, sharpness and saturation.
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I’m convinced that most photographers place far too much importance on their camera kit and, as a consequence, fail to recognize and nurture their own unique, creative spirit. Here’s a quote from Albert Einstein, that I believe is of paramount importance to aspiring photographers.
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The underwater lake at Seegrotte, 30 minutes drive from Vienna, shares the title of the largest underwater lake in Europe with Saint-Léonard in Switzerland. Visiting Seegrotte is a fascinating experience. Steeped in history, it’s also a fun place to explore and a challenging place to photograph.
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Heiligenkreuz Abbey is the oldest and continuously active Cistercian monastery in the world. Here’s some tips to help you make great photos on your visit to this and other sacred places, particularly when it comes to making successfully photos under low light and high contrast conditions.
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