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Jerusalem
Photography Tours
Why book a private tour
Booking a private photo expert allows you to select from our carefully planned routes or to make desired changes where possible according to your interest. If there are 2 or more of you then the price is also quite attractive.
What you will learn
Day Shoots
Shooting in bright morning light with low ISO setting.
Experimentation with pedestrian/neighborhood photography.
How to blend into the crowd and shoot as inconspicuously as possible.
Tips on how to photograph strangers in a respectful manner.
Night Shoots
Shooting in low light without flash.
Use of urban objects (street lamps, garbage cans, etc.) to act as camera braces.
Experimentation with long exposure.
Learning to expose for high contrast lighting.
Your Photographer
I am a Graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (Graphic Design and Photography), studying for five years at that institution. I spend my time photographing for a living, photographing for pleasure and teaching photography and computer graphic programs.
I'd rather try and make beautiful photographs of ordinary things than make ordinary photographs of beautiful things.
There is nothing to be invented in the visual world, it's all there. I don't photograph glorious sunsets, flowers, animals and beautiful things (or people). I find myself again and again looking at ordinary everyday objects, at rubbish, at the man in the street, looking at things really close up and trying to find beauty in their colour and form. Sometimes I find that beauty, more often I don''t. Now and then I am satisfied with what I have photographed, occasionally very satisfied and sometimes. well, I just start again and continue looking. In my search I thank God for giving me the eyes to see.
Languages: English, Hebrew
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Adventures thru the Lens - Jerusalem Photo Tours
Spend an exciting morning and / or evening in Jerusalem with an expert photographer and teacher learning how to make great photographs while visiting Jerusalem's multicultural and ancient city.
This tour offers participants an authentic city adventure and rare opportunity to experience Jerusalem from an insider’s point of view.
Your professional photographic guide will point out details invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points on your chosen route.
Learn to tell a story through images, take great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off the beaten track.
Be ready for the unexpected, on an Adventure thru the Lens.
Photos Copyright: A.Richman
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Jerusalem Old and New
Private Tours
Your tour will start with Jerusalem's Supreme Cort building, an architectural masterpiece. Built in 1992 it is still considered "brand new".
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New York Downtown
Tour Code: JRSLM-PH1
Private Departures : On Request
Duration: 4 hrs
Cost: 300€ private groups up to 4 people
Meeting Point: Corner of Sacher Park (Gan Sacher) and Bezalel Street - next to gas station
Ending Point: Royal Palace
The participants will be able to photograph both the exterior and the interior of the building. The tour will continue up Bezalel street through the "Nachlaot" group of small residential quarters.
Built in the latter half of the eighteenth century most of the original buildings still exist although a substantional renewal program has rejuvenated the buildings, alleys and courtyards. You will explore the many small quarters each with it's own fascinating history and character.
The tour will contine winding up to Jerusalem's famous Machane Yehuda market, a visual (as well as a culinary) treat.
The market is filled with food stalls of all types as well as boutiques selling everything from jewelerry to designer clothes. Jerusalem's special and unique population mix can be seen to it's fullest in the market.
We will take a break and eat in one of the many small but excellent restaurants or kiosks.
The tour will end in downtown Jerusalem at the corner of King George and Agripas Streets.
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A Religious Cocktail
The tour will start in Jerusalem's famous Ultra Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Geula and Mea Shearim. Populated by ultra Orthodox Jews, it's stores catering to the local population as well as the thriving tourist trade, are a gold mine of visual treats.
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Jerusalem's unique mix of Jews Moslems and Christians
Tour Code: JRSLM-PH2
Private Departures : On Request
Duration: 4 hrs
Cost: 300€ private groups up to 4 people
Meeting Point: Shabbat Square (Kikar Shabbat) corner of Malachei Yisrael and Strauss streets at the Bank Leumi ATM machine.
Ending Point: Jewish quarter Old City Jerusalem
The tour will go through the Mea Shearim (100 Gates) quarter and down to the Damascus Gate and on through the Old City's moslem quarter. It's markets are renown for foodstufs, oriental bazaars, souvenirs and it's rich merchandise serving tourists from nearly every country on earth. Photographing buildings that are between hundrds and thousands of years old and walking streets where Jesus and he Jewish High preists, not to mention Crusaders and Turks once walked, will be a truly exhilirating and spiritul experience. The tour will end at the Western Wall.
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Jerusalem at Night
Private Tour
A photographic tour of Jerusalem at night starting with Jerusaelm's YMCA building, a blend of classic European and Oriental architechture, continuing to a special vantage point overlooking the Tower of David and the Old City walls. "
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Within the City Walls
Tour Code: JRSLM-PH3
Private Departures : On Request
Duration: 3 hrs
Cost: 300€ private groups up to 4 people
Meeting Point: King David Hotel
Ending Point: Zion Square - corner Kaffa and Ben Yehuda Streets
You will continue past the David's Citadel hotel (designed by world famous architecht Moshe Safdie) to the centre of Jerusalem's night life in the Nachalat Shiva quarter. This is the first residential quarter to be built outside the Old City walls. Now a blend of restaurants, shops and trendy bars.
The tour will end at Zion Square.