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Beautiful light and clouds scattering over Bohinj Lake, ,Triglav National Park, Slovenia.
Great photography locations

5 stunning photography workshop and tour locations to visit in 2025

Photography workshops & tours not only offer great opportunities to elevate your skills and expand your creative horizons by learning from seasoned professional photographers, but they are also the perfect way to see and photograph some of the world’s most photogenic locations. Here is a short list of 5 great photography workshop and tour locations to improve your photography skills and capture amazing photos:

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Sun rising over Lake Bled and the island church of the assumption of Mary with the Karavanke mountains in the background, Slovenia.
Favourite photos

My Favourite Photoshoots of 2024

I thought I would start the new year with a review of my favourite photoshoots throughout 2024. While I got some good stuff every month, I have focused on the months that produced some of my best and favourite photographic moments.

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View across the village of Volavje to the Julian Alps mountains in the west. Volavlje is a small village in the hills east of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Slovenia

Christmas Sunset over the Slovenian Mountains

I spent Christmas Day in a lovely region just outside Ljubljana where you can get a fabulous panoramic view of nearly all the Slovenian mountains. For the first time in many years we actually had a white Christmas, albeit sparse but still white and Christmassy!

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Sunset at the church of Saint James in the little village of Hrase, near Medvode in Gorenjska, Slovenia, with Mount Storzic of the Kamnik Alps peaking through the clouds behind.
Favourite photos

Afterglow

On the run up to sunset this evening, it hadn’t seemed like it would be anything great. Thick black cloud dominated the western horizon and the light was quite cold. However, given that the cloud layer was quite patchy I held out some hope.

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Lake Bled castle and church of Saint Martin with the Karavanke Alps behind during some soft morning autumn light, Slovenia.
Photography Workshops

Slovenia Autumn Workshop Report

Bad weather should never stop a workshop. It’s an opportunity to show just what you CAN photograph & how best to utilise the conditions. On mu Slovenia autumn workshop, we did just that.

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Gondolas at dawn with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
Stories

Sleepless in Venice

Getting up for dawn and sunrise in summer is always hard because it’s so early. But on a recent trip to Venice in Italy, getting up wasn’t the problem.

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