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
Hotel photography must adopt a ‘new normal’
Hotel photography in a COVID-conscious world by Michelle Chaplow Hotel photography must adopt a ‘new normal’ as the hospitality and tourism industries recover from the effects of COVID-19. As people begin to travel more, hotels need to demonstrate that they understand...
Badly Prepared Hotel Beds in a “Covid Cautious” World.
Badly made beds, displayed on a hotel website, will not entice guests to check in, especially in a "covid cautious" world. Take a close look at these hotel beds! These are real photos, live out there on the Internet, screen shots from websites, in this new world,...
Quality Hotel photography tells a story, stories create a need, a call to action, a reservation.
This is the prefect time to examine and prune your hotel photography archive. Quality hotel photography that shows your property in its very best light, can be a catalyst for future reservations. We are now offering a new service to review your imagery and help you...
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.