Category Archives: Travel

Paradise Found: A Day on the Island

Surely we’ve all closed our eyes at some point and imagined a place we’d rather be. Somewhere warm. Somewhere sunny. A place where the sun warms your back, the wind rustles the leaves of palm trees and nine to five means nothing. When things get crazy, I remember our time on the island. When things...

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Photography Gear Review: Case Logic Camera/Laptop Backpack

  Case Logic: “Life, Simplified.” As traveling photographers, we are always keeping an eye out for the perfect camera bag. We need to get our gear from one place to another, and we want to be able to find what we need when we get there. I recently had the opportunity to test the new...

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Zanzibar Beach Photography

5 Days ago, something beautiful happened. With a long series of late-season storms and a sloppy 3 inches of mushy snow lingering about, you might never have seen it coming. But it came. Summer in Lake Tahoe. Yesterday, when quitting time rolled around, we got our butts out of our office chairs and headed to...

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Doors of Zanzibar: Carved art of the Swahili Coast

Getting lost in Stonetown is easy. Narrow streets and alleyways intersect every 50 feet. Angles are anything but perpendicular, and cardinal directions become irrelevant as your options never seem to lead in the direction you were once headed. When the left side of your brain finally surrenders to the more intuitive aspect of navigation, you...

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Escape to Zanzibar: Exploring Stonetown, Part II

This week the adventures continue with more Zanzibar and Stonetown photography! Many thanks to all of you who have signed up for blog posts via email, and to those who have shared your comments on the blog and on the Chris Werner Photography Facebook Fan page. It’s always great to hear such positive feedback, and...

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