Photography in Moorish Spain

Good for you !
The major cities will be obvious to you, so let me suggest some smaller places with good photo ops. I liked Ronda, Casares, and Nerja. The former two can be part of a route in the white villages coming down from Seville.

Some ideas:
Málaga with its Alcazaba:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcazaba_(M%C3%A1laga)

Antequera, some 30 miles north of Málaga city, with its Moorish castle on a hilltop just above one of Spain's first renaissance churces and the excavation area of a Roman bath.
http://www.andalucia.com/antequera/home.htm

The nearby town of Archidona:
http://www.andalucia.com/province/malaga/archidona/home.htm

Of course Córdoba with the Mezquita and, don't forget, the extremely ambitious Madinat al-Zahra ("the forgotten Versailles") some 3 miles outside the city.
http://www.andalucia.com/magazine/english/ed4/madinat.htm

And, of course, Alhambra in Granada. In Sevilla you could also see examples of how the typical Muslim architectural forms lived on through the Mudéjar style.
http://www.whatsevilla.com/moorish-influence.html

Much sun during the winter months too, the light might be even better for photographing. Great differences between the inland and the mountain area and the coastal regions.
This site gives you an idea of the climate in the different parts of Andalucía:
http://www.absoluteaxarquia.com/climate.html

They are all beautiful, you can hardly go wrong. Check out the photos in my Spain galleries (there are four of them: Barcelona, Andalucia, Madrid and Segovia,etc.) For Moorish I'd pick Andalucia followed by Segovia/Toledo. For winter travel Andalucia would be the best. We were there in March, you can see from the photos what the foliage, etc was like.

Definitely spend some time in Ronda. The views are amazing. I have a great photo of the town through a window at the top of a church with the churchbell in the foreground. And the bridge and gorge are amazing. Very inspiring.

cordoba, granada, sevilla, malaga all obvious; white villages are fantastic for images - i mean the real ones not ronda eg setenil, grazalema, zahara de la sierra, olvera, even less obvious places like el gastor, benamahoma; further east, no-one seems to get to Ubeda and Baeza in Jaen province - neighbouring small cities which are unlike anything else in spain. architect named valdespina turned thenm into renaissance jewels - spectacular and not v much visited. beyond, cazorla is intriguing and offers lots of unusual townscapes and Jaen city of course is worth the trip; beack in cadiz province there's cadiz capital and jerez, both of which lend themselves to snappers; in seville province, beautiful small cities - Carmona, Osuna and in Cordoba, Priego de Cordoba is pretty unmissable. That's just a starter...

oh, and the landscapes in between all these places will take your breath away. In fact you won't breathe for two weeks

Winter is usually blue sky so should be great for photographs. As well as the larger cities don't overlook the smaller towns. The Moors had control over the majority of Andalucia so wherever you go you should see a castle on a hill and watchtowers in between.

It might be an idea to choose a main base and radiate day trips from there. The roads are quiet, the driving easy and the views never-ending.

Rachel

One thing is the well known moorish monuments (Alhambra, Medina Zahara) and other the small towns where the street and housing typology is that left by the moors: narrow winding streets in a circle (ruedos) that delimit a neighborhood (Ronda and white villages), well preserved minarets with bells added (Archez and Malaga Axarquía); weird menageries where you find market, castle, bullring, roman temple turned mosque and then church...all in the same building (Almonaster la Real, Fregenal). Many former jewish quarters are very similar to the moorish ones. Some still look as they were centuries ago (such as the Priego one).
Ubeda and Baeza are Renaissance towns, outstanding, but with little or no moorish remnants. (Arquitect Vandelvira worked in these towns, and Jaen and Malaga Cathedrals).

I seem to get the most comments from my stark winter photos. I prefer spring ones, myself (especially taking them..)

You must also consider the Alpjuarras mountain region, south of Sierra Nevada¨and towards the coast. The last refuge of the Moors in Spain after the fall of Granada in 1492.
http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/34285740/Moorish-Cultural-Landscapes-of-Las-Alpujarras-Spain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpujarras

Some photos:
http://www.andalucian-adventures.co.uk/images/destinations/spain/alpujarras-natural-park.jpg

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Spain/Andalucia/Granada/Alpujarras/