Rule of Thirds: a 18th century invention

Presented as the cornerstone of photographic composition and knowledge, suggested by many…

Telling Stories With Your Photos

If you’re not into photographing birds, you tend, many times, to take…

Light & Shape & Attention to Detail

Some time ago, while preparing a tour, I spent a couple of hours…

Photographing wild boar squeakers

April 24 I lead the first Spring photo tour at Tapada Nacional de Mafra. It’s a voyage of discovery…

Exposure is worthless… without compensation

If the title grabbed your attention, let’s make clear it is not that kind of…

The “peeling an onion” concept applied to photography

One of the terms I use in photography is very…

Flowers My Own Way

When I say FLOWERS people say MACRO, in a Pavlovian way that amuses me. Well, for…

Friday 13th is a photographer’s delight

Each Friday 13th of the year, the Archaeological Museum of…

Adventures by the roadside

It always puzzles me the fact that once on the road people just seem to want to reach the end of it, instead of…

The Holy Grail Castle as seen from my window

The palace the composer Richard Strauss points as the Holy Grail Castle, is less…