On this 15-day photography tour we will cover most of the highlights of Morocco including imperial cities of Fes, Marakech and Meknes, Casablanca, Sahara sand dunes, Essaouira at the Atlantic coast and Volubilis Roman ruins. We will photograph ancient crafts that are still alive in today’s Morocco, local markets and beautiful sceneries of Atlas mountains and Dades gorge. And the highlight for most of us will be two days at Merzouga where the Sahara desert starts and where we can climb the sand dunes, barefoot or on a camel.

More details about the tour can be found here.

And secondly we were featured in an article about photo vacations published by Executive Travel Magazine. Article was written by San Francisco based journalist Kimberley Lovato and the online version can be read here. Thank you as well Kimberley!

And happy Easter to all of you!

At Tim’s suggestion I posted a few shots from Iceland to National Geographic website and just a few days later I got notice that one of them was selected as “travel photo of the week”! Great surprise and honour!

This is the photo that was selected by National Geographic:

Here it is possible to download the wallpaper.

Winter in Iceland gallery

To check out some of my favourite shot from this Iceland trip check out our photo archives on the link below.

Go to photos

Thank you Jim and Fred for this interview – I had a great time talking to you guys and hope we do it again sometime in future!

To follow the Fotobug you can like their Facebook page where they update with every new podcast they make. And there are some very interesting interviews with different photographers already in their archive.

Borut tried newly acquired Voigtländer lens but we did not get good results. The portraits we made were not sharp and we decided to try with much smaller (still very big though) camera Kodak Brownie. With this camera a large format film can be used but we wanted to stick with the 19. century techniques so we used aluminium plates and a wet collodion technique called ambrotype or collodion positive. The difference is that you get a positive image as an end result and not negative as with glass plates.

It took us about four hours to set up everything and to make three portraits. The exposure time is very hard to determine as there is no light meter in the camera and the sensibility of the wet collodion is approximately 8-12 ISO equivalent. It also depends on the thickness of the layer you put on the plate itself and on the development of the photo in the darkroom. For these three photos below the exposure time was around 4-5 seconds at f11. You can notice Borut’s dog is all blurry cause he moved during the exposure. it gives the photo even more vintage feel.

We were both pleased with the results and somewhere in the future I might even try this technique myself – it’s quite addictive! Below you can check out few more shots from that day.

To read more about these cameras and techniques visit Borut peterlin’s blog where he describes his experiments in 19.century photography.

Season of 2011 is well over now and most of us are already thinking about next vacations in 2012. Here at Adriatic2Alps we have set the tour dates for 2012. You can check them out on Photography Vacations page or click on specific tour on the list below:

• Slovenia Photography Tour; May, July, October
• Adriatic2Alps Photography Tour; June, September
• Balkan Photographic Adventure; August

And because there is a very special day coming in the next two days we offer a very special discount on any of the scheduled tours listed above. 11% discount on all bookings made on 11.11.11. (Nov 11th 2011). You don’t need to do a final booking – its enough to contact us saying you are interested and if you confirm your place on our tour by the end of the month the discount will be taken into account.

And tell your friends about it – share this information on Facebook or via email!

• Balkan Photography Adventure 16th – 27th Aug 2011 – Two places available
• Adriatic2Alps Tour17th Sep – 1st Oct 2011 – Three places available
• Adriatic2Alps Tour9th – 22nd Oct 2011 – Two places available

Our testimonials page is updated with two nice testimonials by Donna & Jody and Robert & Beverly.

And lastly, new photos have been added to our Slovenia and Croatia galleries. All photos of 2011 are newly added.

Good light, great shots and don’t forget to “like us” on FaceBook!

If you are thinking of heading to Bella Italia and seeing all that these classic beautiful locations have to offer for photographers, we have negotiated a 175 € (EUR) discount for all Adriatic2Alps clients, fans and followers. And Capture Italy also have a special offer on their September tour departing Rome 12th September – for any bookings made by 30th June, they will double the discount!

For more information you can visit the Capture Italy website: http://www.captureitaly.com/ or you can jump straight to the itinerary: http://www.captureitaly.com/itinerary.html.

Buon viaggio!

January and February are quiet months in terms of tourist season but we’ve been very busy nonetheless. Here is a short summary of what we have been doing, In January we went on a study tour to Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina. We were researching great photographic locations for our future tours. We are working on an outdoors oriented tour as well as a wildlife photography tour. In February we had two photo outings already – both to the caves. Firstly we went to Krizna cave with Michelle and Debbi and last week we’ve been on real caving adventure to Planinska jama. And lastly – we’ve been busy answering all your emails and reserving all tours for 2011 season – so far we have 9 confirmed tours – check out our tour calendar to see availability.