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Morocco Discovery photography tour 2025
DETAILS
• May 14 – 28, 2025
• Fez to Merzouga
PRICE
• All inclusive $7,495
o Option for discount (TBD) if sharing room – please let us know if you’d like details
• Includes everything (all meals, transport, activities) except international airfare, alcohol, and personal expenses.
LEADERS – Unparalleled guide to participant ratio
• Bob Holmes
• Andréa Johnson
• Reda FAKHAR, a TV Producer in Morocco with 18 years expertise as a film & TV Producer & national Guide. Reda regularly travels to every corner of Morocco, knows the country by heart & will be with us during the entire tour as our main location expert
• Additional Local tourist guides will accompany in each new city to to off the beaten path locations
TRANSPORTATION
• Mercedes Sprinter or Volkswagen Crafter
• 15 Seaters Van + trunk for the bags
Itinerary outline – please contact us directly for details
Day 1-3 – Fez
Day 4 – Fez to Meknes
Day 5 – Meknes to Marrakech via Rabat
Day 6 & 7 – Marrakech
Day 8 – Marrakech drive through Atlas Mountains via Skoura Tizi-N-Tichka road & Ourzazate
Day 9,10,11 – Berber Village oasis & Moroccan Sahara
Day 12 – Merzouga to Azrou
Day 13 – Casablanca
Day 14 – direct flights back to USA
One-day San Francisco workshop, August 7, 2024
We will be teaching a one-day street photography workshop in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 7. This will be a very small group and we will meet at the San Francisco Ferry Building at 10am. For those coming from Marin we will take the 9.25 ferry from Larkspur.
Fee including ferry fare $245. For anyone attending the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers conference https://www.bookpassage.com/travel we are offering a $50 discount.
Our wandering will include the Embarcadero, The Ferry Plaza, Chinatown and North Beach. Our itinerary will be flexible!
This will be a rare opportunity to take your photography to the next level with one-on-one instruction and includes a portfolio review/Zoom interview at a mutually agreeable date.
We hope you can join us.
Vietnam – food & photography as the ultimate connectors into intimate cultural experiences
Every time I share this story of Sa Mei and myself meeting in 2007, and coincidentally reuniting in 2017 I’m amazed and inspired by the power of photography to connect. Sa Mei is a member of the Red Dao hill tribe and lives in a small village about a days walk outside of Sapa, Northern Vietnam. We had met her in 2007 on the trail, and I was taken by her warm smile and welcoming face, asking her to pose for a photograph. We only had about 30 minutes to connect, and limited English to communicate initially but she made an impact on me and I saved her photo on my phone.
Photo of myself with Sa Mei in 2017, holding photo I took in 2007 saved on my iPhone
In 2017, we were back in the same area leading a small group of photographers on a tour when we happened to run into Sa Mae on the trail. As you can see from the two photographs, she looks nearly identical, but I wasn’t sure it was her until I pulled up her portrait on my phone to compare. When I approached her and shared this portrait she was of course surprised and I’m sure uncertain of who I was, then nearly began to cry as she examined the photograph and we began to share memories of this encounter.
Portrait of Sa Mei in 2007 & 2017, a Red Dao hill tribe women near Sapa, Vietnam
Sa Mei and I shared stories of our lives the past decade (she has become more fluent in English with the influx of tourism & in fact speaks 4 languages), and we discovered that we were the same age though have led very different lives. As she walked along the trail with our group I learned she is a grandmother and has a small farm where she lives with her husband and her son and daughter in law and grandchildren. When she invited our group to join her family for lunch we happily changed our schedule and met her the next day at the trailhead.
Sa Mei walking on trial to her village Giang ta chai of the Red Dao hill tribe people outside of Sapa, Northern hill tribe areas, Vietnam
WHERE THE WINE FLOWS THERE FLOW I
I used to be known primarily as a travel photographer, whatever that may mean. I’ve spent 40 years traveling the world taking photographs for most of the great travel magazines and for a couple of dozen books but those days are over. “Everybody is a photographer now”, magazines are disappearing faster than polar ice caps and those that are left have pitiful budgets.
I still travel, I still take photographs but for the past 20 years I have made most of my income from taking photographs for the wine industry and that just happens to involve extensive international travel. The problem is that making wine is almost the same process whether it’s in Napa or New Zealand so I’m always looking for new ways to illustrate the same process. A fermentation tank is a fermentation tank and a barrel is a barrel but at least vineyards vary. The flat vineyards of the Medoc in France are completely different from the steep hillsides of Germany’s Mosel. I find I often plagiarize myself but every region has its own character and it’s my job to search out those differences.
I’m always looking at light too. I was photographing vineyards at this winery and when I went back to the winery building I was stopped in my tracks but this sight of backlit sulfur smoke from sterilizing the barrels. It’s surprisingly often that these unexpected, serendipitous moments make the best shots of the day.
Maysara Winery, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Italy insider’s photo tour 2019
Artisanal food & wine cultures of Tuscany & Sicily
Dates & Pricing
- Tuscany June 3 – 8, 2019 – $3250
- Sicily June 9 – 15, 2019 – $4450
- The prices are pegged to the Euro and the current instability may result in amendments.
- $200 discount if both tours booked together
- Tour limited to 8 participants for intimate, exclusive access
What’s included
- All lodging
- All meals in Tuscany , most meals in Sicily including renowned restaurants with Michelin starred chefs & local farm to table ingredients
- All ground transportation
- All photo workshop activities
- Photography instruction and optional reviews of photos in Tuscany (we’ll have more time to discuss and review photos than previous faster paced tours)
- Private van and driver
- Local guided visits
- Cooking classes
What’s not included
- Airfare
- Incidentals not listed
- Tips & gratuities
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Tuscany Overview
At every destination we will take the opportunity to explore the surrounding countryside and take advantage of the light. Landscape photography is dependent on weather and serendipity, and our small group size allows this type of flexibility.
Day 1
Arrive by train via Rome to our home base in Montepulciano – Poggio Etrusco, a five-hectare working olive farm with over 800 olive trees. Poggio Etrusco means “Etruscan hilltop,” because at one time this area was inhabited by the Etruscans (500-600 BC). The farmhouse, constructed in the late 1600s, was originally part of the estate of the noble family Cantucci, still found in Montepulciano and S.Albino. Since 2001, Pamela Sheldon Johns (a cookbook author) & her husband Johnny Johns (an artist) have been the proud owners of Poggio Etrusco. In that time they have certified organic, put in a vineyard of sangiovese, and increased the olive oil production eightfold.
Poggio Etrusco, Montepulciano
After lunch, we’ll head to Montepulciano with a stop at an amazing carbon free biodynamic winery. Montepulcialno is home to the Sangiovese clone called Prunolo Gentile that isused to make the renowned Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.
Throughout the week, for those interested, there will be time for learning cooking techniques, recipes and hands-on experiences in the kitchen.
The Passion
An old mansion in Havana, Cuba needed nothing more than a beautiful girl. The light was perfect. Yet another example of shooting in the middle of the day during so called “bad” light.
One slip and it’s a watery grave in the raging tributary to the Indus.
Passion is such an overused word but I don’t know a photographer who is not passionate about what they do. They are certainly not doing it to get rich!