The 25 Best Places to Photograph on Planet Earth | PopPhoto
Looking for inspiration for your next adventure? PopPhoto has compiled a list of its favorite places to take photographs. It’s broken down into categories (which aren’t, strictly speaking “places”) including Ancient Worlds, Exotic Animals, Far Flung Destinations, Festivals and Natural Phenomena. It’s worth checking out, if only for the photographs themselves.
Photo: Highland Sing-Sing Festival | Papua New Guinea | by Chris McClennan
Top 20 Travel Photography Books of All | Tripbase
Travel guides inspire you to get off the couch and explore the world, whilst looking at beautiful photographs instills a deeper sense of what a place is truly like.
To help stimulate your spirit of adventure, here are 20 of the very best travel photography books available.
—Christine, Tripbaseblog
Obligatory Supermoon photograph
Traveling with the iPhone | Camera+
There are hundreds of photo apps in the iTunes store and weeding out the good from the bad is not easy. My personal favorite for in-Phone editing has long been Camera+, but as I mentioned before, the app was pulled due to some violations of Apple policies. Well, folks, it’s back!
What makes Camera+ superior to its counterparts is its comprehensiveness. It has virtually all of the editing features you could possibly want - the ability to crop, retouch, apply effects and borders and on and on. The only thing it lacks is the breadth of “vintage” effects provided in apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram, but it has plenty of these and whatever it lacks is more than compensated by the other editing features available. The new version has also added more sharing features with upload to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, in addition to the obvious email capabilities.
As with most photo apps you can take photos from within the app, as well. I have no data other than my own perception, but my experience has been that the quality of the photos taken with Camera+ are degrees better than those taken with the basic iPhone camera app. They just seem clearer and richer even without the manipulation the apps’ editing features afford.
Right now the app is selling for 99 cents and is worth every penny. Camera+ makes most other photo apps superfluous.
For more apps in my Traveling with the iPhone series, click here.
cazenov + loyd Leica | Travel Photographer of the Year Competition 2011
Hey, budding travel photographers, want a Leica X1? British travel company cazenov + loyd and famed camera maker Leica have teamed up on a year-long photography competition, the winner of which gets his grubby paws on a gorgeous X1. From the contest website:
We’re looking for photographs taken in one of cazenove+loyd’s three areas of expertise – Africa+Indian Ocean, South+South East Asia, Central+South America – that you feel capture a spontaneous moment, portraying a land, its people or wildlife.
Each month a winner will be selected and receive a lesser Leica prize (e.g. compact Leica camera, binoculars, etc.). All monthly winners are entered into the final competition for a chance to win a Leica X1 and workshop at the Leica store in Mayfair. Of course, this means even if you end up winning the grand prize, you wouldn’t have that Leica X1 in hand presumably until 2012.
Submissions for January are being accepted now. Click here for complete contest details. Be sure to read the terms and conditions because contests like that these typically require you to forfeit at least some of your rights to the photograph to the organizers of the contest.
On the way down to Del Mar for a day at the races
Favorite Places | The Palace of Fine Arts
Whenever I’m in San Francisco, I always make time to visit The Palace of Fine Arts near the Marina District. It’s like nothing else in the city, and really one of the few architectural gems of its kind to be found in the United States. Originally built for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915, The Palace of Fine Arts is a throwback to a time when events like World’s Fairs were seen as an opportunity to build lasting and memorable structures in service of the host city rather than as disposable temporary events meant to simply be exploited.
A bit of restoration has been done recently and not all of it is good. For example, the dome has lost much of its luster in the restoration process for whatever reason. But the place itself remains both an awe-inspiring view from afar and a leisurely environment to enjoy from within. Without question one of my favorite places.
The Palace of Fine Arts. Without question my favorite place in San Francisco.
At the Farmer’s Market at the Ferry Building. How very San Francisco.
