Articles - Israel

I am pleased to announce that we will be heading abroad later this year, with visits to Kenya and Israel in the same big trip.  It has been a few years since we have been to either country (2015 and 2016 respectively), but a return to Africa was something high on the agenda for some time.  Because we [ continue reading ]

Last week we flew into Tel Aviv via Hong Kong.  The airlines unfortunately left half the HGK-TLV flight's luggage in Hong Kong, including all our clothes, and my tripod — a Manfrotto MT293A4 and 494RC2 travel tripod combo I had specifically bought for this trip.  The morning after we arrived, we had to go buy [ continue reading ]

It is not very often that I discuss photography gear, but given that I purchased a few new items of gear today, I figured it was worth relating the story.  Soon enough, we are heading overseas on a trip to Israel, followed by a small soujorn to Czechia for a few days.  As is always [ continue reading ]

Later this year we are travelling to Israel for a wedding, but since we will be within close proximity to many other destinations, it made a lot of sense to also plan a mini-holiday somewhere else nearby.  While there are some fantastic places in the world which are worth re-visiting, what is more appealing is the notion of [ continue reading ]

On our last night in Tel Aviv on this most recent trip (the second to Israel in 2013), I was determined to capture an image of Tel Aviv during the evening twilight.  We headed to Yafo earlier in the evening before golden hour, where I captured a number of images in the warm light, before [ continue reading ]

We have visited Tel Aviv twice in 2013, and I had been wanting to capture an image of the Tel Aviv skyline against the Mediterranean Sea from Yafo.  On our last visit, we ran out of time and decided to give it a try on the next visit, which was already being planned.  On our [ continue reading ]