Tuscany Archives - DearSusan

Mar 08

#1177. Campervans, the unspoken heroes of travel photography ?

Italy offers a wide range of sleeping accommodation, from charming locandas, to classy hotels and luxurious palazzos. So why would anyone in their right mind choose a white tin box instead? I’ll try to answer this from multiple points of view. Independence Maybe I’m just an old fart. But eating at a restaurant once […]

Feb 28

#1174. Photographing Leonardo da Vinci’s imagination

By pascaljappy | Travel Photography

How do you do visual justice to so much creative genius? I’ve just come back from a few blissful days in Tuscany – more on this in a later post – part of which was devoted to the visit of the Leonardo museum in Vinci, just West of Florence. This quick post is devoted […]

Oct 08

#1145. Caramella d’occhio Italiano, capitolo due (Italian eye candy, part two)

By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography

After looking at Tuscany along a vertical track in part one, let’s go along a (mostly) horizontal line for part two, this set of pictures having been shot across spring and summer. From a technical point of view, there will be fewer pictures taken with my 9mm, more space being given this time to the […]

Sep 22

#1141. Caramella d’occhio Italiano – primo capitolo (Italian eye candy – part one)

By Pascal Ollier | Travel Photography

For those who like Italy in general, and, like me, Tuscany especially, the source of eye candy is nothing short of inexhaustible. While I already presented some treasures of Florence and Lucca (which I will dare to revisit courtesy of some new shots taken recently), let me share with you the delights of Siena as […]

Jun 02

#602. The Road to Montechiari

By pascaljappy | Travel Photography

This is a lovely guest post by Jens Kotlenga devoted to a topic that really inspires us here on DS :un-destination. Jens is an educator by profession, a traveller by choice and a photographer by heart. He picked up photography from his parents and started doing commercial work in his teens, photographing at proms and […]

Jan 19

#195. Talking with the Masters : Paula Chamlee and Michael Smith on photographic vision (1/2)

By pascaljappy | Interview

For this second episode in our new series of interviews of the great photographers of our time, I’m really proud to publish a long and fascinating discussion with Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee. Michael and Paula are husband and wife and live in the USA in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They work with large […]