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Dinosaurs Make Your Travel Photos Instantly Better

Dinosaurs Make Your Travel Photos Instantly Better

Next time you’re headed out on vacation, don’t forget to pack the most important thing. No not your camera, the other important thing—your dinosaurs! You read that right. Here’s what Jorge Saenz captured with his toy dinosaurs while he traveled: That does give me some ideas to experiment with. Now, where are my daughter’s stuffed toys?

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Travel Photography Expectations vs. Reality

Travel Photography Expectations vs. Reality

Quite often, we’re blown away by the fantastic images of vacation destinations we see online. We make plans based on them. We dream of being on the most magical of trips. But, when we finally arrive, all our plans, all our dreams simply vanish into thin air. Disappointment is written large on the faces of travelers who expect things to […]

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15 Valuable Secrets To Success for Travel Photographers

15 Valuable Secrets To Success for Travel Photographers

Whether you’re an hobbyist photographer about to embark on a much-needed vacation with your family or an amateur professional photographer preparing for your first legitimate assignment abroad, you would do well to glean as much wisdom as possible from expert travel photographer Richard I’Anson. In the following video, I’Anson discusses the fundamentals of travel photography, including the ins and outs of selecting […]

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9 Travel Portrait Photography Tips

9 Travel Portrait Photography Tips

From Cuba, travel and adventure photographer Brendan van Son filmed this short video to describe nine of his most tried-and-true practices for shooting portraits abroad. If you’re an aspiring travel or portrait photographer, you’re going to want to tune in: Brendan van Son might not be the most well known travel photographer, but he’s definitely gathered up some wisdom from his […]

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Professional Travel Photography Tips

Professional Travel Photography Tips

In a recent article titled Lasting Impressions: How to Create Memorable Travel Photographs, PictureCorrect provided detailed coverage of a lecture by Luke Ballard, an esteemed travel photographer who has successfully combined his two great passions—photography and globetrotting—into a successful career. Ballard returns in this video with fresh instruction on how to survive in this highly […]

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Travel Photography: What Should You Pack?

Travel Photography: What Should You Pack?

How do you choose which camera gear to bring with you when you travel? Photographer David Hobby packed light on his vacation to Hong Kong.  Here he discusses exactly what he carries in his traveling camera pack: Tips for Traveling Photographers Pack Light. Hobby suggests only taking the most necessary items for taking photos while […]

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Armchair Travel: The Most Beautiful Coasts in the World

Armchair Travel: The Most Beautiful Coasts in the World

Summer (and its vacations to beautiful beaches and coasts to spend a few weeks away from everything) has come to a close. But, thanks to all the photographers who take their cameras on their vacations, we can sit in our offices and admire these most amazing scenes any time of year. Take a look at […]

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Have Camera, Will Travel: Full-Time Travel Photography

Have Camera, Will Travel: Full-Time Travel Photography

Quitting your day job, slinging a camera around your neck, and jetting off to travel the world and take beautiful pictures seems like the stuff bestselling memoirs and National Geographic documentaries are made of. But for Raf Horemans, that’s just everyday life. A little less than a year ago, Horemans left behind his life in […]

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This Year’s National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest Winner is Nothing Less Than Stunning

This Year’s National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest Winner is Nothing Less Than Stunning

A whopping 18,000 photographers submitted their photos to the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, and the judges had to narrow the competition down to just ten prize winners. The coveted first prize went to Mexican photographer Anuar Patjane for his underwater photo of a humpback whale and her calf: “Diving with a humpback whale […]

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Seriously Clever Travel Tips for Photographers

Seriously Clever Travel Tips for Photographers

If you’re about to head out on an epic travel photography adventure, or even a short little vacation, no matter where you go there are amazing pictures just waiting to be taken. And you don’t need a bunch of fancy equipment to capture incredible, memorable shots. Photographer Ray Demski takes us on a little trip to Venice and […]

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