 Mercantour On The Range
Liz Lord of Spacebetween takes us from here to eternity as a rider on the bi-annual Transhumace rising from sea level to 2500m through the first early fall of snow and a temperature range of 25°C to -1°C. With her trusty Nikon Coolpix she managed to record this spectacular event. Read more…
 Portrait Photography: Some Tricks of the Trade
The first question most photographers for hire ask their subjects is "what" they would like photographed. Since I deal strictly in portrait photography, the answers to this are less important. Read More...
 Tom Carter: Photojournalist
Beijing,
China
– American photojournalist Tom Carter has announced the completion of a groundbreaking
journey throughout all 33 Chinese provinces and autonomous regions, and took
his place amongst the few living Westerners able to make the claim. Read More...
 Mercantour: France’s undiscovered Alpes-Maritimes
No strangers to Pàramo gear, we were delighted when the marketing team accepted our invitation to come to the Mercantour for a brochure photo shoot. The Mercantour, France’s largest and most recently created National Park, is just a short drive away from the French Riviera. Read more...
 Secret Venice: L'Isola di San Michele
When most tourists go to Venice, they want to see certain things. The Piazza San Marco, the Doges' Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, and the Rialto Bridge all fill boxes on their “must-see” checklist. Those places are certainly worth seeing, but many people come away feeling rather unfulfilled. Read more....
 Sometimes You Just Get Lucky
The day I had planned to photograph the Eiffel Tower, it was raining. To make matters worse, I overslept, misplaced my hotel key, and was feeling the effects of too much wine from the night before. Read More....
 Montenegro: Land of A Thousand Angles
Exotic landscapes are not always distant and hidden. In the heart of
the Mediterranean, separated from Italy by the Adriatic Sea, there is a
small country that is only an hour flight from Rome or Budapest, or one
and a half hours from Zurich; a tiny country where your photo adventure
begins: Montenegro. Read more.....
 Ed Jones, Photographer: A Personal Journey
“At 25, I have survived on jobs that paid under minimum wage; I’ve had to fight to get paid at all. I’ve been accused of being too maverick, I’ve worked for nothing, I’ve had my hopes dashed at the last second, and I was once was turned down for a job for being ‘too keen’. The trade off is that I am closer to gaining access to the type of career that I want, and that despite some testing times, I have enjoyed the ride so far. Taking photographs is not something I do between 9 and 5.” Ed Jones, photographer and risk-taker, on what it took. Read more......
 Steve Outram Travel Photography
When I emailed Steve about publishing an article on WPA about his workshops and tours in Crete, Zanzibar and also new 2007 workshop tour to Slovenia he replied, 'No problem, but I'm on a shoot in Istanbul at the moment but as soon as I get back to Crete I will send you some details and images'.
That's exactly what he did; even before he started downloading the work he completed in Turkey he sent me the information. A true professional - find out more about what he gets up to and the workshops and tours he offers. WPA will be updating Steve's destinations for 2008, but check out his new Brazil workshop in October 2007. Read more.......
 Film versus Digital
Were film photographers right about digital photography after all? A must read article by Photographer Chris Golson who runs his Creative Digital Photography workshops out of the San Francisco Bay Area. The transition from traditional film photography to digital has been the quickest in the history of picture taking and how we now view images. Chis will also be running his next Digital class in August. Read more.........
 Virtual Photographer
Photoshop can be intimidating at times, the learning curve can be
steep and yet within this powerful program there is so much that can be
achieved.
Are you a photographer looking to create different effects without
spending hours wondering how to change a photograph from colour to
Black & White, or create that old sepia tone look? Want to change
an already great image into something weird by changing the colour
ingredients so it looks fantastically creepy. Read More......
 Hong Kong Camera
Michael Lohmar's adventure of buying a camera in Asia.
No worries - I'm not going to annoy you with a lot of details about
photography. Instead, I will tell you a true story about me buying a
camera in Asia ....
A while ago now in 1994, during a trip to Asia, my wife and I visited
Hong Kong when it was still a part of the British Empire. This visit
was a long wished for "dream" of mine, and I was keen to do it before
Hong Kong would again be part of China. Read More...
Fancy a trip to Paris? See how Wilf James captured 'A Tourist in Paris'
a retrospective look at photographing those Parisian scenes as
photographed by millions of people who visit this remarkable city each
year. Create an account and download the 'A Tourist In Paris' slide show
World Photo Adventure
(WPA) is here to help build a
photo community with information and images about what's available if
you are interested in going on a photo workshop, trek or tour. It is
now so easy to search the web and find that special photo trip or
workshop you want to take that will help improve your photo taking
skils. How do you find out information about the company and if it really
is what you are looking for? If you have participated in a photo
workshop, tour or adventure activity write and let us know what happened.
 A Printing Exercise
A lot of people starting off in digital think that with all the automatic features, taking wonderful pictures will be a dawdle. Then when they got home and load the images onto their screen they are often sadly disappointed. Oh dear another candidate for the dustbin? No hold on a minute.
When many of us were messing around in darkrooms, muttering weird incantations, we would often pull a strip of film from the processing reel and holding the dripping length of celluloid against an inspection light we would wonder what the hell had gone wrong? Read more ..
 There are many other exciting sections including articles about camera collectables which will not be dull and boring, but funny and entertaining. With digital now overtaking film there will be a whole new generation of photographers who will have no experience of using a film camera. This series will explain about the history of the camera and that fast disappearing medium - film, and how it all evolved.......... and just what is a darkroom!
 Wilf James whose idea it was to create a site where information could be found on different ways to learn to take better photographs. At whatever level you may be at, and without fear, you can ask those questions that you think might seem silly or too simple to ask.
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