A lovely blue hour on a famous bridge in Rome - good times!

Inside a little cafe that we visited in Rome - great food, great people, and great photo opps too!  :-)

Sunset descends on the lovely Italian coastal town of Vernazza, and I share a guide I wrote about photographing the entire Cinque Terre area.  Enjoy!

The Bridge of Sighs, an iconic sight in Venice, captured during a beautiful sunset.  Enjoy!

A lovely street scene from Rome, complete with a domed church and cloudy skies - fun!

Some Italian laundry hanging out to dry - a fairly common scene across the entire country!

Some gondolas tied up and waiting for a ride - a common but iconic sight in lovely Venice.

There is just so much breathtaking beauty along the Cinque Terre in Italy.  Today I share a gorgeous view of Manarola, taken at twilight.  I loved it there!

Today's pic is a quiet and empty street in Florence, Italy, shot during a lovely sunset.  Oh, and I share a link to a webinar I recorded showing how I process the image - enjoy!

Today I explore creative options in Aurora HDR 2017 from Macphun.  Many people think HDR photos all look the same, but I prove that you can get a wide range of outputs with this powerful product.  Have a look and see which version you like best!

A beautiful sunset in southern France...don't you love happy accidents?

One evening in Florence I wandered over here to The Uffizi, which is an incredible museum and a place that I love to visit.  Thankfully the crowds were (mostly) gone.  Have a look and enjoy!

Two versions of a lovely blue hour in Rome for ya today - color and mono.  Either way, it was a gorgeous night to be shooting in Rome!

If you are looking for the best view of the skyline of Florence, Italy you can find that in today's blog post.  But it's not a secret - I had to share it with a few hundred of my closest friends.  :-)

I've been experimenting with long exposures lately, so today I share something I created recently while shooting a sunset in Florence, Italy.  This is a 2 minute exposure shot with a Vu 10-stop Filter attached.  Check it out!

Standing on a pile of rocks at the edge of Riomaggiore, Italy and happily firing away during a lovely blue hour - that's what's on tap here today, folks.  Dive in.

I found myself on a quest while in Florence, Italy - a quest to capture as much of the work by street artist "Blub" as I could find.  I discovered 16 works by the artist, so here they are.  They all feature either a famous work of art or a famous person (real or imagined), each fitted with a swimming mask.  It's a fun diversion from all that other art in the city!

I always wanted to shoot a gorgeous sunset from this spot in Rome, and as luck would have it, it happened to me last week - by accident.  I wasn't even out on a photo hunt, I was just walking home from dinner with the family.  Then, this!

There's something special about Florence, Italy.  We recently spent over a week there, and I loved it.  Here's an iPhone photo summary of some of the great things we witnessed!

Don't you love it when you get a wonderful sunset at the place you have always wanted to photograph a wonderful sunset?  Yeah, sometimes it happens, and when it does, IT'S AWESOME.