Travel photography instructor, author and international guide Ralph Velasco has organized and led a variety of cultural tours around the world.  These tours have included Egypt, Mexico’s Copper Canyon, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Iceland, Central Europe, Morocco, Spain, Tuscany, Turkey, Romania, the Adriatic, Vietnam, Death Valley, Chicago and San Francisco.  Additionally, as of this writing he’s organized and led 13 fully-licensed People-to-People programs to CubaJason Hahn

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Travel photography instructor, author and international guide Ralph Velasco has organized and led a variety of cultural tours around the world.  These tours have included Egypt, Mexico’s Copper Canyon, Bhutan, Nepal, Cambodia, Iceland, Central Europe, Morocco, Spain, Tuscany, Turkey, Romania, the Adriatic, Vietnam, Death Valley, Chicago and San Francisco.  Additionally, as of this writing he’s organized and led 13 fully-licensed People-to-People programs to Cuba.

His current eBook is titled Essence of a Place: A Travel Photographer’s Guide to Using a Shot List for Capturing Any Destination, and in it he discusses working from a shot list in order to create a well-rounded portfolio of images that tells a complete story.  In his first book, Ralph Velasco On Travel Photography: 101 Tips for Developing Your Photographic Eye & More, he outlines a variety of photography and travel tips and tricks he’s learned from the road, as well as provides over 100 sample images and interesting quotes.

As creator of the recently updated My Shot Lists for Travel app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch® (free on iTunes), Ralph has taken the age-old concept of maintaining a shot list and brought it into the 21st century.  Designed to help all travelers to bring back a more well-rounded set of images from any destination, the app is a powerful organizational tool, no matter the user’s photography skills or type of camera used.