Crete in a different light – When a travel photography trip turns out unexpectedly different
May 15, 2025
When a travel photo trip to Crete turned out unexpectedly different
I’m Guy Lambrechts, a Belgian photographer specializing in landscape, architecture, and nature photography. Initially, I snapped family pictures and holiday shots just for fun, but soon I felt compelled to enhance my skills and grasp the nuances of capturing the finest moments with my camera. My passion for photography flourished as I discovered the profound influence of framing, lighting, and camera settings on my early landscape photographs.
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Imagine you are returning back home after a fine day out or even after a long day at work. The sun starts to set, and suddenly you see a perfect scene. It is breathtaking. You stop and grab your camera.
You want to capture this spectacle of colours and light before the sun completely disappears. And you make sure you take a dozen photos. You rush home and feel excited. While downloading your files on your computer, you discover your images are not as sparkling as you expected. The composition is fine. The colours are comparable with the real image. But you miss that overwhelming sense of beauty that you spotted. To put it bluntly: your photo lacks emotion. What did you miss out?
Thousands of tourists may snap hundreds of thousands of photos, hoping to care a breathtaking postcard view. Immersed in the moment, they often overlook minor details, such as a distracting garbage lurking in the corner of their frame or unsightly traffic sign. Or being focused on their object, they did not notice that ugly traffic sign. Not to mention the other wandering tourists with their inseparable selfie sticks cluttering your images. Moreover the presence of other tourists wielding their ubiquitous selfie sticks can clutter their images further. Out of the multitude of photographs taken, only e few likely succeed in conveying the emotional essence of that particular moment. Rarely do these images encapsulate the sensations experienced when the shutter button was pressed. And, of course, many of them don’t even bother to take time to look at their screen or viewer when pointing at their potential object. Furthermore, many individuals fail to take the time to review their composition on the screen or viewer before capturing their intended subject.
Landscapes are highly accessible to all of us, omnipresent during our journeys. Moreover, unlike people, landscapes remain stationary seemingly ideal subjects. And yet, despite this apparent simplicity many individuals feel dissatisfied with their results upon returning home.
Landscape photography can cover a very wide range of photos. From the original genre a number of subgenres developed such as cityscapes, seascapes, waterscapes, winterscapes, gardenscapes, mountainscapes, forestscapes, etc. …. Sometimes the distinction with nature photography is difficult to make.
As a frequent traveller, I also equally at home in both bigger or smaller cities. I am constantly on the lookout for beautiful lines, shapes, and light whether in historic buildings and in modern architecture. On my website, I will gradually unveil some of my secrets for capturing stunning photographs. My aim is to inspire you to continue seeking out breathtaking landscape, whether they’re close to home or farther afield.
In future blogs I will delve into different aspects of landscape photography, hoping to ignite your creativity and help you capture the dream photos you have always desired.
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And who knows, perhaps our paths will cross somewhere out in nature.
When a travel photo trip to Crete turned out unexpectedly different
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Brilliant, Guy, simply brilliant!
I am already loving these photos and hope that we can use your service again in the very near future.
Thankyou so much Guy! I can’t stress enough how fantastic these are. I have another three photos that I’d love for you to edit so they look consistent with the three you edited of Central Park for me.
I had a yellowed, damaged photograph of my grandparents full of creases and tears. Without much hope, I had it restored – the result was stunning!
Dear Guy, the edit is fantastic. I could not be more pleased. Truly, I’m grateful that you were able to elevate this photo and the memories associated with it to a degree beyond what I was capable of. Bravo!