Introduction to Shipwreck Beach on Zakynthos Shipwreck Beach in Greece, also known as Navagio Beach, is one of the most photographed sites in the Greek Islands these days. It is ‘Instagram famous’ now as a favorite travel photo bucket-list destination. If you’ve explored travel or holiday options in the Greek Islands, there’s a very good … Read more…
The images below are from my new Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone. I wanted to test the phone’s built-in editing ability and features for turning photos into painterly style images. For the first image here, I used an external app that offers different photo painting features. I tried the Pointillism style and then tweaked it from … Read more…
SEO Case Study on This Website If you’re interested in travel photography and also happen to be involved in websites or digital marketing, you may be interested in my latest project that combines these two worlds. It’s a live ‘SEO Case Study’ on this website… David Kamm Photoworks. This is a great opportunity to learn … Read more…
Two B&W Photos of ‘El Castillo’ (The Castle) in Tulum, Mexico First a wide view of Tulum’s El Castillo structure from off the right front corner. It’s the largest and most impressive structure within the Tulum complex and was the center of many ceremonies and human sacrifices back in the days of Mayan rule in … Read more…
Tulum Ruins in Black & White This photo is a black and white conversion of the main image in my last post from the Mayan ruins of Tulum, Mexico. It shows part of the Grand Palace in the background with other smaller ruins in the foreground. I both like and dislike this photo relative to … Read more…
More photography from the ancient Mayan site of Tulum, Mexico Here’s one of the larger Mayan ruins of Tulum, Mexico. The building in the background is part of the ‘Great Palace’, and lies just west of the El Castillo structure that looks out over the Caribbean Sea. The small group of tourists near the right … Read more…
El Castillo – Tulum, Mexico This photo shows a corner view of the top of El Castillo (The Castle) — the largest Mayan temple among the ancient ruins of Tulum, Mexico. We visited Tulum on a sunny day that had a partly cloudy sky, making for a nice view here. The entire site dates back … Read more…
This photo is from just outside the Cinque Terre village of Monterosso al Mare, taken as we started to climb higher and more inland on the elevated trail over to Vernazza. This cat was hanging out on a rocky man-made ledge just off the coastline. He was unbothered by the nearby pedestrian traffic, so I … Read more…
I took the two shots below while we were finishing up the guided tour portion of a trip to the ancient Mayan ruins at Tulum, Mexico, south of Cancun along the Riviera Maya coastline. Tulum is a beautiful archaeological site, and I’m glad we made the half-day commitment to visit it and get some good … Read more…
We spotted this iguana after a 50-minute beach walk to the interesting little fishing village of Puerto Morelos, located between Cancun and Playa Del Carmen. Shortly after turning right off the beach toward the small town center, we saw this iguana sunning itself up on a high wall near a construction site. Like most iguanas, … Read more…
One of the fun things about staying in Mexican resorts in the Yucatan peninsula is the opportunity to spot and photograph some of the local resident iguanas. (Side note… Melissa once had a pet iguana named Simon.) Last year at a Riu resort close to Cancun we had no luck at all in this department. … Read more…
The two images below came from an early morning photo shoot around the Now Sapphire resort’s pool and beach area during a recent trip to Mexico’s Riviera Maya region south of Cancun. The light just after sunrise was good, there were a few low clouds in the sky for added interest there, and the air … Read more…
Carnival Triumph — Before Disaster Struck This photo was quite unexpected from the very start. I shot the image below from a beach along the Riviera Maya region south of Cancun, Mexico, last Saturday, Feb. 9th, at daybreak. It’s the now-infamous Carnival Triumph cruise ship, and in this scene it’s heading under its own power … Read more…