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Our Italy Photo Tour, from May 6 to 14, 2023, will be a great option for any landscape photography lover. Including Tuscany and Cinque Terre, we’ll cover some of the most extraordinary locations in Italy. Furthermore, we’ll also offer an optional extension to Florence at the end of the trip.
Springtime will be at it best in Tuscany, allowing to capture the green Tuscan fields, with endless photography possibilities. At the same time, the amazing villages in the Cinque Terre will offer its best colors, with the Mediterranean seascapes offering wonderful opportunities for long exposure images.
During the trip, you’ll be guided by one or several of our professional guides. They have plenty of experience in the destinations, as well as guiding photo tours and workshops. Besides this, all the organization is done by our own travel agency for photographers. Dream Photo Expeditions has been successfully organizing photography tours from 2015, counting with more than 40 trips organized at the moment.
As we stated, this Italy photo tour will be mainly focused on landscape photography. During 9 days, we will be photographing several different kind of landscapes. From the Tuscan natural sceneries to the seascapes and the great views of the Cinque Terre villages, we’ll be covering almost all varieties of landscape photography.
We’ll begin with the amazing natural landscapes in Tuscany. Its locations offer fantastic possibilities for photography, specially at this time of the year. The area features precious panoramic views, hills, valleys, precious villas and lovely cypresses to photograph. Undoubtedly, a truly incredible area, famous all around the world, and a top destination for photography.
Then, the Cinque Terre National Park includes five picturesque villages, Riomaggiore, Manarola, Vernazza, Corniglia and Monterosso. Each one of these villages, located at the border of stunning cliffs, are extremely beautiful.
By other hand, we will be constantly trying to search for the best moments of light. Therefore, we’ll pay special attention to sunrises and sunsets, visiting the most beautiful locations at those times of the day. This way, we’ll have many chances to capture those spots under fabulous light conditions. That’s the reason why we will be waking up early each day, getting to the locations with time enough to prepare for the show. At the same time, we’ll stay in our sunset location at least until the night has come. Working like this, we will get many more chances to capture the best possible pictures.
Spring is the best season for this Italy photo tour, due to the precious colors during this season. Tuscany looks simply amazing by springtime, when the fields take that lovely greenish color. Literally, we could be taking pictures for hours at every single location. The incredible views of its valleys, hills, windy roads… all seems to be created for us, photo addicts!
Then, there are quite chances to get one of those typical foggy Tuscan mornings. In those days, the mist get to the valleys, creating an incredible atmosphere. If we were lucky to get a moment like this, we’ll make the most from it. Fantastic images will be guaranteed under such fabulous conditions!
Regarding the Cinque Terre, it is also one of the best times of the year to visit the area. These five villages, as well as the area around them, is such a crowded destination, that hosting a summer photo tour there would be almost impossible. Winter or autumn could sometimes work, but weather conditions would be the boss at those seasons. However, springtime brings the best chances to enjoy the area at its best, from a photographic point of view. At this time, it’s very likely that we even get some beautiful flowers blooming at the edges of the cliffs.
This Italy Photo Tour is suitable for all physical conditions, ages and photography levels. First of all, this will be a quite easy to do trip, with no complicated hikes or physical requirements. In Tuscany, all the photo locations are next to the roads, or by the places where we’ll be parking. In the Cinque Terre, we will use the trains to move between the villages, and then the longest ways to our locations will be five to ten minutes hikes. Given this, we can assure you that it won’t be a complicated trip at all.
Equally, there is no age limit, anyone can join the trip as long as he or she is reasonably healthy and well.
Finally, no minimum photography level is required to participate. No matter if you are a beginner or a professional, our photographers will bring you personalized attention, adjusted to your needs, in order to help you capturing the best images of Italy. And, although you’ll see a recommended gear section below, no minimum photo gear will be needed. That’s just a list of the ideal gear for a trip like this, but never a list of indispensable items. Even taking pictures with a compact camera or with your smartphone, you will be welcome to join us!
Taking into account all the previously stated, we are sure that this a fabulous opportunity to capture the most amazing images from Tuscany and the Cinque Terre. We will be taking care of every single detail, to make sure you enjoy the best possible experience. All of this, while we help you to improve your photography.
Seats are limited to 12 participants (including 2 photo guides for more than 8 participants). Do not miss this special opportunity and join us on this Italy photo tour, it will be an unforgettable trip.
Our Italy photo tour will begin with the meeting of the group at Florence International Airport, in Italy.
From here, we will drive to our destination for the first par of the trip, in Tuscany. The sceneries in the ara will look amazing at this time of the year, so we may be capturing the first pictures of the trip during our way.
After leaving our luggage at the hotel, we will go our to visit the first locations of our itinerary. We’ll get to a nearby spot with fabulous views of the surroundings. We’ll stay exploring the photo possibilities of the area for the rest of the day, until the night has come.
Afterwards, we will get to our hotel to sleep after this first day in Tuscany.
Today, we will get up early and head to our sunrise location, the Podere Belvedere ville. From here, we’ll capture one of the most amazing views in Tuscany. We’ll be exploring the area both before and after sunrise, having enough time there to enjoy the wonderful views around us.
Apart from the already incredible scenery in the surroundings, if lucky, we could be rewarded by the lovely fog that sometimes gets into the valley. One way or another, there will be infinite possibilities for photography.
After breakfast, we’ll be exploring some areas in the regios. The incredible Tuscan landscapes will allow us to stop almost everywhere for taking amazing pictures. We’ll even take some gravel roads, which will lead us to wonderful fields, hills, cypresses, etc… We’ll be paying special attention to the contrasts of colors, as well as the the enchanting shapes and lines. All those elements will bring us unique composition possibilities.
Later, we’ll be visiting two of the beautiful Tuscan villages, such as San Quirico d’Orcia and Pienza. We’ll spend some time exploring one of these small towns, before getting back to our sunset location. For that, we’ll visit other of the most spectacular spots in Tuscany. There, we’ll be able to capture another typical Tuscan ville, located in an incomparable place. An beautiful road, surrounded by cypresses, will offer us outstanding compositions.
Again, we’ll wake up early today to head to the location where we’ll capture the first rays of daylight. In this case, we’ll visit a location in the Tuscan valleys, from which we’ll capture the beautiful La Vitaleta Chapel. After sunrise, we’ll drive to the chapel itself, to capture closer images of the church, and to enjoy the spectacular views from here.
We’ll have some time to explore the Tuscany roads again, searching for new shoots and compositions. Afterwards, we’ll visit two more towns, Montepulciano and Monticchiello, before heading to our sunset location. In this case, we’ll photograph a beautiful zig-zag road, in the middle of a precious hill.
Once our session is over, already by night, we’ll get back to our hotel to sleep.
For today, we’ll head to a different location for sunrise. This time, we’ll photograph another windy road in the middle of a hill, with great possibilities to capture the wonderful shapes and lines, as the sunlights illuminates everything.
After breakfast, we’ll move to a different area, photographing more Tuscan villes, surrounded by cypresses, as well as extraordinary panoramic views from precious green fields.
Following this, we’ll visit Montalcino, other of the most famous towns in the region, before heading to a nearby location where we’ll spend the rest of the day. At this spot, we’ll photograph an spectacular group of cypresses, surrounded by amazing hills and fields. The rounded shapes on the hills, as well as the green lines, will make for stunning compositions. Given the extraordinary potential, we’ll stay here for sunset, trying to get the best lights from this place.
Once the day is over, we will get back to our hotel, to sleep after a very complete day.
This will be our last day in Tuscany, so we’ll wake up early to get to our sunrise location. This time, we’ll come back to the Podere Belvedere ville, trying luck again in photographing the valley under the fog. There are several spots to shoot from in this area, so we will be visiting those with most possibilities.
After breakfast, we’ll begin our way to our next destination, in the lovely Cinque Terre National Park.
Once we get to the Cinque Terre area, we’ll leave our luggage at the hotel, and head directly to Manarola. This is one of the five towns in the Cinque Terre, and we’ll have some time to photograph its lovely colorful houses, before getting to our sunset location. For that special moment, we’ll head to the end of the town, from where we’ll shoot the amazing view of the village on the hill, with the Mediterranean Sea at its feet.
We’ll be able to enjoy sunset from this viewpoint, as well as to capture the wonderful blue hour. Once it’s totally dark, we’ll go to our hotel to sleep.
This will be our first sunrise in the Cinque Terre, for which we’ll go to Vernazza.
After having breakfast, we’ll spend some time photographing the village. We may also explore one of the lovely hikes connecting the Cinque Terre villages.
After this visit, we’ll take the train to Monterosso al Mare, where we’ll photograph the amazing Mediterranean colors by the village’s beach. We’ll have the chance to visit a local photo gallery in the village, before heading to Riomaggiore, our next destination.
Once we arrive to Riomaggiore, we’ll head to a spectacular viewpoint, from which we’ll enjoy amazing views of the village and the sea. This will be our sunset location, bringing us some of the best photo possibilities in the Cinque Terre.
Today, we’ll wake up early to get to Manarola again, this time for sunrise. We’ll get to the same area near the harbor, from where we’ll shoot the most scenic view in town.
After breakfast, we’ll spend the morning exploring the town. We’ll be photographing different spots of Manarola, capturing the beautiful colors of its streets. Then, we will visit Corniglia, the only of the five villages that we had not visited before. Probably, it’s not the most beautiful of the five, but it will still allow us to get nice images.
Finally, we’ll take the train to Vernazza for the rest of the afternoon. This is one of the most photogenic villages in the Cinque Terre, because there are several different locations to shoot from. Around the harbor, we’ll photograph two of these spots, before hiking up to a lovely viewpoint. From here, we’ll enjoy from spectacular views of the surroundings, so we’ll photograph the sunset at this locations.
We’ll leave Vernazza at night, to go back to our accommodation for a well deserved rest.
This will be our last full day of the Italy Photo Tour, so we’ll try to make the most from it. We’ll begin early in Riomaggiore, this time for a sunrise view. We’ll have breakfast after our session, and then we’ll keep photographing the colorful houses and streets of this lovely small town.
After lunch, we’ll get our vehicle/s and drive the road above the cliffs of the Cinque Terre. There are many viewpoints to shoot the lovely views of the Cinque Terre, the coastline and the Mediterranean.
We’ll visit one of this lookouts for sunset, before getting back to our accommodation.
We’ll visit Monterosso al Mare for sunrise, before beginning our way to Florecen Airport, for the end of this Italy photo tour.
We have prepared an optional extension for this photo tour, which will take place in the marvelous city of Florence. Anyone joining the Italy photo tour, will have the chance to also join this 2 day long extension.
From May 12th to 14th, 2021, we’ll be capturing the magical monuments, buildings and scenic views in Florence.
The optional extension of this Italy Photo Tour will begin after leaving the rest of the participants in the airport. We’ll head to our hotel to leave our luggage, and then we’ll head to the outskirts of the city.
For this first afternoon, we’ll visit the Piazzale Michelangelo area. Here we’ll be able to enjoy one of the most famous views in Florence, with its beautiful old skyline in front of us. Furthermore, great colors in the area are quite usual by sunset, so we’ll stay the rest of the day capturing the precious surroundings. Both during the sunset and the during blue hour, fabulous captures will be almost guranteed.
We’ll head back to our hotel once the night has arrived.
We’ll wake up early to head to the Ponte Vecchio area for sunrise. This stunning bridge is other of the top locations for photography in Florence, so we’ll enjoying the golden light at this time of the day.
Later, we’ll have breakfast in the surroundings, before exploring the town, photographing its major attractions. Among these, we’d highlight Santa Maria Novella, the Palazzo Vecchio, the Piaza del Duomo, and the impressive Santa Maria del Fiore, one of the most beautiful cathedrals all around the world.
We’ll keep photographing the town until the evening, including capturing the sunset and gettin back to Ponte Vecchio for blue hour photography. Then, we’ll go back to our hotel
Today, we’ll get back to Piazzale Michelangelo, for the last session of this photo tour. This time, we’ll be able to capture the beautiful sunrise and early morning light over the town. One of the best endings for a trip to such a beautiful city.
After breakfast, we’ll head to Florence International Airport, where this photo tour will come to its end.
Florence International Airport, Florence, Italy (Google Maps)
This Italy Photo Tour is recommended for any person, no matter the age or the physical level to join the trip. As long as you are able to walk for a short five minute hike with no difficulty, you are welcome to come with us. Most of the photo locations are located just a short walk from the places where we’ll park. Therefore, we can assure you that this is a very easy to do trip (one of our easiest ones).
At the same time, there is no age limit for the tour, as well as your health and conditions are reasonably good.
There is no need of a minimal photography level to join this Italy Photo Tour. You don’t need to be a professional photographer to come to this trip, nor even having a lot of experience with your camera. All our photo tours are open to all levels, even for beginners, or unexperienced photography users. Sometimes, we even have people just taking shots with their smartphones. Same way, no minimum photo gear is mandatory.
One of our highlights is providing customized attention, so we will help you to get the best possible images, regardless your previous level. We’ll be there to help you becoming a better photographer!
During this Italy Photo Tour, we can expect mid to warm temperatures during the day. It will be a bit cooler during our sunrise, sunset and night photo sessions, but nothing complicated to deal with.
We recommend dressing in layers, so you can add or remove clothes depending on the conditions. You should also bring a light or mid jacket, and a Gore Tex jacket or similar, for the possible rain. Mountain boots or hiking shoes would be perfect for most of the time. Once you confirm your booking, you will also receive a guide with the recommended gear list for this Italy Photo Tour.
This Italy Photo Tour, as most of our trips, doesn’t include meals (breakfast, lunch or dinner). This will give us maximum flexibility during the trip, in order to focus mainly in the most important thing: photography. Normally, we will be having breakfast in the hotel or in cafes near the area, before or after our sunrise shooting session (depending on tour schedule). For lunch, sometimes we’ may be stopping at restaurants, but we’ll be often buying food at supermarkets (fruit, snacks, sandwiches, etc…), and doing a picnic on the locations we visit. Then, we will have dinner at the hotel or in town.
One way or another, do not worry, we will have the opportunity to enjoy the delicious Italian cuisine. Pasta and pizza will be available (and delicious) anywhere!
Currently, the main payment option we have is the bank transfer. However, if you prefer it, we also have other payment options, such as credit or debit card, PayPal or Transferwise. Please notice that these other payment options may apply a commission fee. You can ask us about these different payment options.
If you choose to pay by credit or debit card, or by PayPal, you can process your payment online, when you finish the booking process. For bank transfer payment, you just have to proceed with the booking and then, once you finish the process with the chosen payment method, you’ll receive an email with al the instructions and bank details.
During this Italy Photo Tour, we’ll be normally staying at 3 or 4 star hotels. Each traveller will be staying in a double twin shared room, shared with another participant of the tour. Rooms will always include a private bath.
If you come with another person to the trip, you’ll share the room, However, if you are traveling alone, we’ll choose a roommate for you between the other participants in the trip (always same genre). Anyway, you will also have the chance to choose a single room for you, paying an extra supplement. Contact us for all details.
Anyone can join this Italy Photo Tour, no matter your country of residence. Our main travel agency is settled in Santander, Spain, but our trips are open to customers from countries all around the world. Therefore, we may have clients from different places in our photo tours.
This Japan Photo Tour will begin meting up at Florence International Airport, Italy. Therefore, all the participants need to get there for the first day of the tour, traveling from their country of residence, with no need to travel to a particular town to fly together to Florence.
Once you have confirmed your booking for this Italy Photo Tour, we will send you the trip info with a recommended gear PDF guide. This will include suggestions not only about the photography gear, but also about the clothes and accessories you might need during this photo tour. To sum up, you won’t have to worry about anything, since our expert photo leaders and guides will inform you about everything you will need, so you can enjoy your travel as much as possible!
As a first tip, we would suggest you bringing a light color down or shell jacket (for example red, orange, yellow, light green, etc…). That jacket will protect you from the cold and the rain but, at the same time, you’ll look great when photographed in some of the most beautiful locations around the Tuscany countryside!
