All photographs in this section were taken with aCanon EOS D30and28~135mm f/3.5~f/5.6L ISlens unless noted otherwise.
For some further observations on equipment used on this trip, driving in Italy, and what this year's well equipped tourist is shooting with, have a look at the page entitledA Digital Travel Kit. It also discusses the inadvisability of combining a holiday with doing serious landscape shooting.
Two additional images can be found atItaly Redux. They are each strong examples of the incomparable light found in Italy.
Travel photography is a genre that IÃm not that familiar with. But, like every other photographer I take photographs when I travel for pleasure, though I have rarely published them.
It seems to me that theraison d'etreof travel photography is to share with the viewer something of thefeel, or essence of the locale as experienced by the photographer. Not necessarily art, but something more than simply record. Just as successful t...