10 tips for compelling museum photos

If you’re like me, you enjoy traveling to new and interesting cities. One of the wonderful things great cities have to offer is the chance to view and experience outstanding and occasionally extraordinary art. Sometimes you have the chance to take museum photos. Often...

Secrets of great spring flower photography

Spring has just come to the Northern Hemisphere. Flowers are blooming and the colors are spectacular. Each spring more and more travelers tour famous gardens to photograph and drink in their magnificent blooms and take great spring flower photography. Around...

A Canadian spring skiing safari

Mine, mine, all mine, I thought greedily, as the lifts shut down and the last straggling day-trippers headed down the mountain. We were at Sunshine Mountain Resort on day three of our Canadian skiing safari. Over eight days, we notched five alpine and one Nordic areas...

Road trip Ireland — Expect the unexpected

Traveling across Ireland you see a series of picture postcard views of its cities, towns, “emerald fields” and rugged coast. Ireland is a wonderful country to visit, with warm and caring people. On a recent trip there, my wife and I were made welcome at every stop. I...

8 tips for planning a train journey across Canada

Here are my eight tips for planning and making the most of a journey on The Canadian: 1. It’s not all about the Rockies: Though winding through Jasper National Park in the shadow of Mt. Robson (Canada’s highest peak) and viewing the Cariboo range are some of the...