Tag Archives: travel photos

How to Take Better Travel Photographs

In the last 4 years traveling the world, I’ve taken over 10,000 photos. I know compared to some people that isn’t a lot (I have friends who take over 10,000 pictures every few months) but photography has never been my focus. When I first started to travel, I took a lot of photos but then [...]

Another Year Gone

After a good birthday celebration in Edinburgh, Scotland, I am now back in London. Tomorrow, I head back to Boston for two months. There are weddings to attend, doctors to see to make sure I’m healthy, food to eat, and trips to make.  I’ve been away 11 months and the next two months are to [...]

Travel Photography: Connecting with People

Amateur and professional photographers alike agree: Getting natives to relax for a good photograph is one of the hardest aspects of travel photography — but not entirely impossible. Locals Are Not Scenery While traveling through a region where you see locals you’ve only viewed in magazines (for example, monks in Southeast Asia or Zulu tribesmen [...]

5 Ways to Improve Your Travel Photos

Some of us can remember sitting through travel photo slideshows as kids: Carousel after carousel of Uncle Herb’s bad photographs from his Mexico vacation. Don’t turn into Uncle Herb. You’re an avid and knowledgeable traveler – don’t let yourself become that dreaded relative.   The flip-flops you bought at the Chiang Mai night market will eventually break, [...]

England in Pictures

On this fine Sunday, let’s all relax and enjoy the beauty of England. London Salisbury Cornwall Bristol Bath Plymouth Stratford-Upon-Avon