The Hotel Essence Photography Blog
Welcome to our Hotel Essence blog, founded by award-winning hotel photographer Michelle Chaplow, specialist in luxury and historic hotels. Michelle shares her world of luxury hotel photography, and we also highlight individual Hotels from the cutting-edge contemporary to world-renowned heritage hotels.
To find out more about Michelle’s career trajectory, and the prestigious publications where her work has appeared, read her Bio. We have sections on keynote speeches, hotel photography tips for hoteliers, and we share news on conferences, awards, interviews with hotel experts, exhibitions trends and travel.
Michelle also manages to find time for a number of ongoing Personal Projects, including the award-winning The Pool of Life, and you can read her individual take on various photographers, themes and topics in Contemporary Art Photography. For friends who prefer to read in Spanish, a selection blog posts are also available in Entradas en español.
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Recent blog posts
We will go the extra mile to capture the very essence of your hotel
From day one when Hotel Essence photography was established in 2010 by our founder Michelle Chaplow, our aim has always been to go the extra mile to capture the very essence of hotels, around the world. Our whole team, the room stylists, the production, the lighting...
Spring 2019 Color Awards, Los Angeles,USA
After Coffee Games, Color Awards
Happy New Year 2019 from Hotel Essence Photography
Our team at Hotel essence photography would like to wish you safe and happy travels in this brand New Year. The hotels depicted are; The Bathtub at Benbow Historic Inn, The Avenue of Giants, which is right on Benbow´s doorstep, those trees are breathtaking, some reach...
This blog has been created to blog about travel, photography and hotels. Three great subjects that so many love, the world of travel, photography and hotel life. Tales of world travel from a Michelle Chaplow, founder of Hotel Essence Photography a professional travel photographer with 20 years experience in the field. A blog with a passion for travel, photography and hotels of both the luxurious an quirky kind. Michelle participated in a course on International Contemporary Photography. The course was organised by the Contemporary art Museum in Malaga (CAC) and the Valentín de Madariaga foundation in Seville, Spain. This blog will also serve as a showcase to highlight Michelle’s images with a contemporary angle.