We spent a few days camping in the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix scouting our favorite locations for our upcoming workshop and even found some new ones! The weather was beautiful, around 80 most days and upper 40s at night... perfect! After getting up for sunrise several days in a row, it was nice to sleep in today. Though I admit, the … [Read more...]
Scouting Our Workshops
We always scout an area carefully and choose the best locations for photos before we conduct workshops. Although we have scouted the east valley several times in the past, we are scouting again this week to confirm our favorite spots before our March 25-27 Desert Spring in the Canyons of the East Valley- by the way, we still have 1 spot left! … [Read more...]
A Tuscan Dinner & Some California Wine
Thinking about our May Villages of Tuscany tour, I was inspired to cook Tuscan last night... For our "Primi Piati" I made a traditional country Zuppa di Cavolo con Fagioli (Cabbage Soup with Beans), with crusty garlic bread in the bottom of the bowl. For our "Secondi Piatti" I made Zucchini Farcito (Stuffed Zucchini), and for "Dolci" (desert), … [Read more...]
Photo Tip for Snow
Because we recently got some snow in Flagstaff, here's a quick tip for shooting snow! Your camera tries to read your mind, and it's not always good at it! For reasons I won't go into here, your camera sets the exposure for middle ground, which will turn your snow gray. As we all know, fresh snow is bright white! Find the "exposure compensation" … [Read more...]
Travel research
We've made airline reservations for our Tuscany 2011 tour and this time we've given ourselves a few extra days to explore an area north of where we base our workshop. Hopefully we'll also get a day or two to relax, but I admit it's difficult to relax when there are so many amazing things to see! Before we go to any area new to us, we do a lot … [Read more...]
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