The story behind the picture: Villa Vignamaggio
Every great photograph tells a story, but I often find it interesting to read the story behind the photograph — and hence this occasional series
Tag: photography
How do I take vivid, colorful landscape photographs?
I’ve been asked how to take colorful landscape photographs a couple of different times, and ended up writing an answer on Quora and republishing it
What kind of power adapter do I need in Europe?
Figuring out how to power cameras and other gadgets in Europe can seem tricky, but it’s easy enough once you know how. The trick is
Lytro Light Field Camera Review
Photography began with the concept of capturing light in a single plane — the idea of what’s in and out of focus in an image
Buying a digital camera: when megapixels don’t matter
Thinking about buying a new digital camera? The best advice I can give you is to avoid maxing out megapixels and you’ll get sharper photographs
Traveling with photo gear & equipment
Traveling with photo gear is much harder than it used to be. Airport security is becoming more and more restrictive. US airport security now has
How to photograph fireworks
Photographing fireworks can be straightforward if you follow a few basic steps: 1) You need a camera where you can control the shutter speed. Digital SLR owners
Story behind the picture: Tuscan Plain from Volterra
This photo recently featured as the travel section lead in Links Best Of Golf magazine, and was taken from a ruined monastery on the edge
Links golf travel section
Links Best Of Golf magazine features a Lodge Photo image to head up its travel section in the Summer 2010 issue (page 65):
Better flash photography — when no flash is the right answer
If you stand at night on the Northern edge of San Francisco, just along from the Bay Bridge on the Embarcadero, and look towards the
Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches photo
Cadogan’s guide to Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches, 10th edition, features a Lodge Photo image on page 9, at the bottom. This is image IT-B-0111
The Myth Of More Megapixels
On a recent trip to Asia, I was browsing an electronics duty free store in Tokyo airport, chock full of the latest cameras. Not being
Clos de Vougeot: Story Behind The Picture
The chateau of Clos de Vougeot is nestled in the vineyards of Burgundy, the area of Eastern France close to Dijon that brings us delightful
The story behind the picture: Fireworks over the Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge over San Francisco Bay, and fireworks bursting in the distance. Who could have planned it better? Well, not me, that’s for sure!
The story behind the picture: Joust Of The Saracens
On the front page of Lodge Photo is a crop from a photo showing a man on a horse with a lance, tilting at a
An afternoon in San Gimignano, Tuscany
I uploaded some new photographs of San Gimignano recently, a small town between Florence and Siena (on the road to Volterra) that has become famous