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  Dining WithLocals.com     Recently, while in Barcelona, Spain, I was invited to have a unique dining experience by a relatively new service that matches travelers with local [...]

  Travel with Ralph Velasco to The Heart of Spain: Madrid, Segovia & Toledo…plus Barcelona!   September 20 to October 2, 2013 Food ~ Photography ~ Culture ~ Museums ~ History [...]

  Participant Showcase: Shea Mayberry   RALPH’S TAKE It’s easy to tell that Shea is an artist by trade, she has an incredibly artistic eye, which certainly comes in handy [...]

  Photo Tips: Always Be Curious     My mother taught me one of the most important photo tips I could ever want to know as a professional travel photographer..she taught me to be [...]

  Travel to Spain: Segovia and Toledo Podcast Interview on the Amateur Traveler    Travel to Segovia and Toledo Recently I was interviewed by Chris Christensen, host of the Amateur [...]

  Foreground Elements: Why They’re Important   Adding foreground elements to your images can make a good shot even better.  The majority of people are capturing the “record [...]

  Choosing photographic themes:     A week or so ago I returned from over a month of scouting new locations and leading a 9-day photo tour up the Danube River from Budapest to [...]

  Would you rather see this scene with no clouds at noon…   …or with clouds and photographed during the Golden Hour?   Here’s the above version converted to black [...]

  Provide a sense of scale to your images…   Currently I’m in Madrid, Spain, doing research for future photo tours that I’ll be leading here.  This morning I stopped [...]

  “Travel to Spain with Ralph Velasco“   Let me be one of the first to congratulate professional photographer and social media expert Rosh Sillars on his 200th photography [...]