I had the great pleasure of visiting the magical Tuscan city of Pistoia in March when I traveled there with renowned Pistoian photographer Luca Bracali. Michela Ricciarelli is lucky enough to also claim the charming Medieval town as her birthplace — and who better than a passionate local to provide authentic insight, photos and travel tips. Thank you, Michela! Pistoia, Tuscany’s Hidden Gem: More than 5 reasons to visit – a letter to visitors traveling in …
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Guest Post: Tuscany’s Hidden Gem by Michela Ricciarelli
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Interview: Danilo Musetti, filmmaker & explorer
Interview with Danilo Musetti: Italian filmmaker and trekking guide
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24 Hours in the Eternal City
So much has been written about what to see and do in Rome, so I decided to skip the tourist information (though here’s a great article here about some interesting city facts) and simply post a few “detail” images from my recent visit. It was my first trip to Rome and I took it all in with wonder and joy. Rome is truly, as one friend put it, an enormous open-air museum. The modern energy of …
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Perched on the Wild Edge of the World
In Norway’s historic Lofoten Archipelago village of Nusfjord, strips of codfish strung on poles near the harbor flap in the arctic wind like prayer flags. Here in the islands, cod caught during the run from the arctic’s Barents Sea to Lofoten spawning areas in late winter is still cold-air cured for “stockfish” in the old way, on long wooden racks out in the open, as it’s been done for more than a thousand years. And …
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To See the World in a Grain of Rice: Conservation & Global Food Security with Luca Bracali
I worked with renowned Italian photojournalist, explorer and conservationist Luca Bracali on a recently published piece for LensCulture Magazine on conservation and global food security in Southeast Asia and am very pleased to share it here. The featured photograph (seen below) is titled “Harvest Time” and was named first place in the category: “Cultural Value of Man’s Relationship with Food” in the 2015 Siena International Photography Awards Contest (SIPA). Entries are now being taken for …
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Bonne année: New Year’s Inspiration & Pro Perspective from photographers Valérie Jardin and Karen Hutton
Top photographers Valérie Jardin and Karen Hutton dish on choosing quality over quantity, the year’s crazy-making moments, honoring what you love & the downside of too much chocolate cake. “Hit the Streets” is Valérie’s highly recommended podcast on street photography and so much more. I look forward to seeing both of them at the upcoming FujiLove LIVE event in NYC Feb. 25-26. //html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4961887/height/90/width/640/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/ When life gets wacky…make your favorite childhood cake…and pace yourself.
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Top International Photography Competition Early Submission Deadline is Jan. 15!
One of the world's top photo contests has announced its early submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2017
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PDX Trending in Japan
As someone who grew up near Portland, Oregon, USA, the current hipness is interesting to me. I started taking the bus alone into Portland from my small farming town of Sherwood just to go to Powell’s City of Books, which is now a tourist destination. I still have some of the books I carried home on the bus in recycled brown paper grocery bags. I was about ten years old at the time and my …
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Feed Your Soul
I returned to the U.S. recently from an amazing adventure to Boston, Paris and Siena, Italy where I reported on the Siena International Photography Awards Contest and Siena Art Photo Travel Festival. I interviewed photographers and editors along the way and had the chance to chat with Street Photography Magazine editor Bob Patterson about the experience. Take a listen on the podcast: http://streetphotographymagazine.com/feed-your-soul-through-street-photography/ Watch these pages as I’ll be writing more soon about the experiences, …
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If You Wish to Make A Pie from Scratch
I’m making blackberry pies this morning and reminded of a poem I wrote last summer. If You Wish To Make a Pie from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe Sunday morning, and I’m picking wild blackberries for a pie with my son. He’s seventeen now, big hands thick and rough as paws, yet gentle, deft around the thorns. We glean fruit along the path and because he pours his berries into mine, his bucket …