The beauty of the Apennines
Few countries on Earth are as accessible to visit and at the same time have such a phenomenal number of interesting landscapes and street scenes for photographing as Italy. The beauty of the Apennine Peninsula is a real storehouse of impressions for both novice photographers and those who have been confidently owning a “DSLR” for a long time. On her first visit, she is so stunning with the brightness of colors and a variety of genre motifs that you want to click the shutter without stopping — and that charming corner of the ancient square asks for a shot, and the peaks of the Dolomites on the horizon are a miracle how good, and a flock of noisy schoolgirls with shock of curly brown hair, crackling like your magpies, deserves more than a dozen pictures. But Italy is far from a “one—time” destination: here you can go out on the same street in Naples every morning and make sure to take exactly your “own” shot of the day.
Visiting the Ouarzazate fairy tale
A close but very colorful exotic is how Morocco can be briefly described. The authentic way of life of the indigenous people, coupled with long-term “off—duty”, brought their outlandish fruits: it is not worth seeing a satellite dish at the red-sanded casbah forts, and a very real “slave of the lamp” suddenly comes out of a BMW in the center of Casablanca – with a full beard, in a jubba hoodie and pointed slippers. In Morocco, cameras are clicking all the time, and there is really something to capture here. On the Jemaa el Fna Square alone, you can spend more than one successful photo evening. And what is worth visiting the clay fortress of Telouet, a bright red prehistoric ruin with a wrought-iron gate that must be unlocked with a meter-long key! Well, fans of landscape photos will be delighted with the desert areas with their picturesque oases, and the stormy waves of the Atlantic, violently crashing down on the coast of Agadir.
“The sky above me is like a sombrero”
Spanish-Caribbean exoticism with a socialist face — that’s what we’ll call Cuba in an ornate way. “Photographic” Cuba is, first of all, Havana — a lady of Balzac’s age with an eternally young soul. Snow-white porticos with elegant columns alternate here, mirrored facades of high-rise buildings and “non-tourist” houses of poor neighborhoods, the streets are crowded with rare American cars, and Caribbean rhythms, rings of cigar smoke and aromas of freshly ground coffee are mixed in the air. But besides the beautiful capital, there are many interesting places in Cuba that are begging for the lens of the “mirror”. Fans of recent history and rebellious souls will be delighted with the sights of Santa Clara and, first of all, the mausoleum of the great Comandante Che, and lovers of fine literature will appreciate the numerous memorable places associated with the life and work of Papa Ham. Tip to animalists: don’t look for five—toed cats here – they live in Key West.