CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show 2012 – Yokohama, Japan

The 3rd CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show, Japan’s largest camera show, will be held during Feb. 9-12, 2012 in Yokohama, at Pacifico Yokohama, a large convention complex and the same venue as last year’s CP+. Hopefully, it won’t snow on those days. And also this year Manfrotto School of Xcellence will hold its seminars [...]

Tether Tools: Participate to the contest!

It’s a New Year. What kind of commitments have you made to improve your photography? Maybe you’ve vowed never to precariously balance your expensive Macbook Pro on a card table ever again. Perhaps you made a promise to yourself that you won’t string your tethering cables through your bra strap anymore. Or, maybe you’ve decided to take [...]

Mirko Sotgiu: A Gitzo tripod between ice and lava

This is Mirko Sotgiu telling us about his travel with his Gitzo tripod: “When I was preparing my journey to create a report about Iceland, I found myself in the classic dilemma of the photographer: the weight of equipment, if this equipment will be enough strong and what I will actually need during this king [...]

Master Class of Enrico Bossan

Enrico Bossan, photographer and editor and head of Photography Department of Fabrica and Director of Colors Magazine, proposes the First Edition of a Master Class designed to develop photographic creativity. This course is founded on the idea that photography means expressing a personal vision about the world. To be able to represent the reality that lies in front of [...]

Urbanautica: a special interview with Peter Brown

This new issue of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the special interview with Peter Brown. Peter Brown has photographed the open landscape and small towns of the Great Plains for the past twenty-five years.  He is the author of “Seasons of Light”, “On the Plains” and the recently published “West of Last [...]

Luca Abete: OnePHOTOoneDAY

OnePHOTOoneDAY is an idea of Luca Abete that from 1 December 2010, decided to “stop” a fragment of his day every day take a picture and posting it, then, on the social networking world of photography Flickr.com. An exciting challenge to the sound of clicks that thrives on ever new contexts, punctuality, perseverance and a [...]

Congratulations to Stefano Pesarelli

Manfrotto School of Xcellence congrats with Stefano Pesarelli for his photo “Hunt” which has participated to the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 by winning an honorable mention. More than 20,000 photographs were submitted to the contest from over 130 countries, with professional and amateur photographers across the globe participating “I personally believe that, beyond the formal representation [...]

Falling for Kata – The Kata team

Last November we had the opportunity to spend two days in the Israeli desert with renown landscape photographer Adam Barker and a great part of our colleagues in Manfrotto Bags and Kata department. The magic scenery and the amazing skies made this trip exceptional, and besides learning a lot of secrets from our tutor, we [...]

Urbanautica: the special works of Richard Chivers

This new issue of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the special feature on Richard Chivers. The British photographer’s works concern the nature of the landscape, through the investigation of critical issues in the relationship between man and environment. Quarries, abandoned places and spaces modified by man become fields of reflections on [...]

Edward Mendes: The photographer’s best friend…an open mind.

It had been pretty dry in Yosemite for almost two months when a series of large and cold storms finally blew through the Sierras bringing snow to the fairly low elevation of 4,000 feet where Yosemite Valley lies. As the last of the storms left the area, I made a day trip to the park [...]

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