About

By JennyMcMastersPhotography.com

Ralph Velasco is an award-winning, Orange County, California-based photography instructor.  He’s an international tour guide who has photographed in more than forty countries on six continents. Ralph has led cultural photo tours to Egypt, Eastern Europe, and throughout the United States, and he’s participated in several humanitarian trips to Cuba.

He’s just released his first app for iPhone and iPod touch called My Shot Lists for Travel and is the author of: “Ralph Velasco On Travel Photography: 101 Tips for Developing Your Photographic Eye & More.”

For the past two years he was awarded “Open Photographer of the Year” by the Professional Photographers of Orange County and he belongs to the Circumnavigators Club, an exclusive group of travelers whose charter requires that its members have traveled around the world, in a single journey, having crossed every one of earth’s meridians.