The Photographer's Eye & the Cultural Experience

Our guest is Ralph Velasco, co-host of the podcast The Traveling Image Makers Velasco is a photographer extraordinaire who’s conducted more than 100 international tours for guests to over 30 countries. He takes great delight in providing photography tips to his guests through his company PhotoEnrichment Adventures. These tours are open to photographers and non-photographers alike. His tours have taken him and his guests to such faraway places as Italy, Spain, Mexico, Cambodia, India, and Costa Rica, to name a few. Velasco has a gift for capturing culture through his photography.

He has a special trip slated for late October 2020 to France’s Magical Dordogne region where guests will get to stay at a private castle. For details on that special trip go to https://Allacampagna.com.

Listen to this podcast as Ralph shares some truly remarkable stories, including that of a little girl in the Copper Canyon region of Mexico (the older girl below) who had never seen what she looks like until he presented her with a picture of herself taken three years earlier—even then some of the other Tarahumara people had to tell the little girl, it was her. Their remote village probably has no mirrors or photographers around like Ralph to capture their likeness.

Check out Ralph’s soon-to-be-launched YouTube Channel ContinentalDrifter. He’s posted a quick preview.