Dani's Lanzarote Blog

The most beautiful beach in Lanzarote?

Dani — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:00:37 +0000

While this is not an easy question to answer as Lanzarote does have a lot of beautiful beaches as for example the "Playa de Papagayo" in the south of the island near Playa Blanca, "Playa Chica" in Puerto del Carmen, "Playa del Reducto" in the middle of Arrecife, "Playa las Cucharas" in Costa Teguise, [...]

The adventure to travelDahkla – Western Sahara

Dani — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:37:43 +0000

"All children have always liked exceptional events and surprises. Many have an adventurous soul who is often in the forefront of their personality. What usually happens is that as they mature, adult society diminishes this thirst for adventure, deleting it from the darkness of the heart of the child to make him believe it [...]

Photo- and Kite Safari in Morocco

Dani — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:00:58 +0000

Yes, I’m just back from my New Zealand trip about which you can read at nz-trip.com and I’m off again, this time to Morocco. Actually it just a stone throw away from here, but still it feels like going to a different world. The last time I have been there in October 2005 on [...]

Timanfaya – La Geria: Fire & Wine

Dani — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:00:15 +0000

Remember my travel photography workshop from the beginning of this year? One theme was “Aerial and Overhead Views” so I went towards the Tinguaton area here in Lanzarote as I thought I could get a nice view from one of the volcanos there overlooking La Geria and Timanfaya. I love this area with it’s [...]

Lanzarote sun & shadows

Dani — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:00:29 +0000

What makes Lanzarote so unique, and this is especially true for the photographer, is its contrast and the singular light conditions. While the keen photographer knows, that the best conditions for taking pictures are early in the morning or later in evening when the sun sets, the truth is that here on Lanzarote I do like the conditions when the sky is clear and the sun is high up in the sky. While this aren't the perfect conditions for landscapes & Co., but they fit for some other scenes. I do like the play between bright white walls and the shadows thrown on to seem, giving almost the impression of a black and white picture. This image was taken as I was visiting the Agriculture Museum "El Patio" in the little village of Tiagua in Lanzarote. It was a beautiful sunny day

Back on Lanzarote

Dani — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:28:57 +0000

Well, that was definitely a trip of a lifetime, even I hope it wasn’t the last one. The last three month almost I have spent traveling the north and the south island of New Zealand. It is an incredible country for everybody who likes to be one with nature. Vast landscapes, almost endless and such [...]

From volcanoes and other shores

Dani — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:22:15 +0000

Greetings from New Zealand. All that preparation in travel photography of course had a goal. I’m in the land that has served as backdrop to many great films as “The Lord of the Rings” or “A River Runs Through It”. By the way, since I saw the latter I always dreamed of doing fly fishing [...]

Lanzarote Travel Photography – La Graciosa

Dani — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:45:07 +0000

This is the second week of my travel photography workshop. The idea was to get a dynamic landscape shot. This picture was selected by the tutor as the photo of the week. You can see on it the beautiful little neighbor island of Lanzarote, La Graciosa. Near the village of Ye, in the north of [...]

Lanzarote Travel Photography

Dani — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:59:06 +0000

Over the next eight weeks I will be attending a workshop that deals with travel photography. Vacation, pictures and Lanzarote is of course a perfect combination. Each week the tutor of the workshop selects a picture of the week, which I will introduce here. In the first week it was a picture which I took [...]

Lanzarote Christmas preparations – Yaiza (2009)

Dani — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:47:32 +0000

There´s Christmas in the air, even here in Lanzarote. Like every year, it´s kind of strange to think about Christmas when we are surrounded by palm trees and temperatures that the majority of European countries only have in the summer. If you don´t believe that, then check out the post about our hike last weekend [...]