The Traveling Image Makers

Sherry Ott is a long-term traveler, blogger, and photographer with one goal in mind - to make you wish you were somewhere else. She writes about her travel lifestyle and around the world adventures on Ottsworld.com and her social media channels.On the About Page of her website, Sherry very prominently quotes author John Le Carre. He said, “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” We love it, and Sherry lives it.In this episode, Sherry Ott tells us the story of how she transitioned from a corporate job in IT, sitting behind a desk, to traveling the world for more than 10 years as a digital nomad.Sherry recently decided to come off the road full time, and now has a “real” home in Denver that she visits once in a while (once a world traveler, always a world traveler!). We talk about what brought her to that decision when it always seems digital nomads are living the life most people can only dream about. Why the change?We also talk about how, like most digital nomads, Sherry makes a living from

This week, we welcome back to the show Marc Silber, who was already a guest on episode TTIM 95 – Marc Silber, Advancing Your Photography. Marc just published a new book on composition, so we we're excited to have him talk about this essential photography skill.Marc is an author, photographer, filmmaker, and producer of the very popular YouTube series Advancing Your Photography, where he has interviewed scores of some of the biggest names in photography. He started out learning darkroom skills and the basics of photography at the legendary Peninsula School in Menlo Park, CA, in the '60s, and moved on to hone his skills to professional standards at the famed San Francisco Art Institute. Marc moved into teaching photography in workshops all over the country, he became renowned as an engaging and helpful speaker and coach, as his greatest joy comes from helping others. He loves adventure and you'll find him out backpacking surfing or snowboarding, o

In this special episode of the podcast, Ralph talks with Ugo about his latest trip to that wonderful country, Morocco.You can follow Ralph along his itinerary, from Casablanca to Marrakech, as we describe some of the best spots the country has to offer, including Chefchaouen, Fes, the Erg Chebbi desert, Aït Ben-Haddou, and the Atlas mountains.Listen closely if you want to get the best tips about touring and photographing this fascinating destination.LinksMystical Morocco – Photo Enrichment AdventuresUrban Morocco: Rabat, Fez, Meknes and Chefchaouen – Ugo Cei Photography See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Björn Moerman is often referred to as “the flying photographer”; combining his passion for aviation with a photography hobby that got out of hand. As an airline captain for a large Middle Eastern airline, he visited over 85 of the worlds countries so far and always comes home with exciting stories and freshly taken images from around the world. Bjorn is from Belgium but has been living in Dubai for the last 16 years. Today he mainly shoots Aviation and Travel photography but rediscovered the world of street photography when he picked up his first FUJIFILM camera in 2012. A year later, he switched 100% mirrorless and became an official X-photographer for FUJIFILM Middle East in 2014. Whenever he is not traveling, he can be found skimming the markets and streets of Dubai, looking to capture those fleeting moments of life.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kai is an author and photographer from Germany. Born 1977 in Hamburg, he started out studying political science in Berlin (FU Berlin) and Helsinki (Helsingin Yliopisto), obtaining his master degree in 2004. He then set out to work as a freelance writer, spending most of his time living in South America.Always passionate about photography, he studied professional image-making in Buenos Aires (Universidad de Palermo) to combine both text and photographs in his work. On the streets of Argentina’s buzzing capital, he discovered his passion for street photography.Roaming around with his camera and getting lost in the city is a meditative experience for him as well as a mean to make sense of the world.Besides capturing urban life in all its facets, he teaches photo workshops and curates the online magazine “The Art of Creative Photography”.In his podcast-show “Gate7” he talks about travel and photography as a ticket to explore foreign cultures and connect with people.In his quest to visually explore the world focus

José Manuel Santos lives and breathes Porto, the city where he was born sometime ago, in 1960. He has travelled up and down Portugal both by car and on a motorbike since 1980, always with his camera in the bag, and is a deep connoisseur of his country. He has so many stories to tell, surely many more than his age.Portugal and Porto in particular run in his blood. His eyes shine when he tells us stories about his city, its people and its light so unique and so special.He loves nothing more then to share his country and all that he has learned from the great masters of travel photography, Trey Ratcliff, Cradoc Bagshaw, Ralph Velasco and John Stanmeyer, to whom he introduced the city of Porto.He is the founder and photo tour leader of Pictury Photo Tours in Portugal.Duration 49m 14s. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ken Kaminesky is a veteran commercial travel photographer, Fujifilm Global Ambassador, writer, consultant, and entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience in the photography industry. His work has been featured worldwide in numerous commercial and editorial publications, including the New York Times and on the cover of National Geographic. His passion for travel and the incredible landscapes and people he encounters along the way are the inspiration for his popular blog, and the other publications he writes for.Throughout his travels, Ken seeks to capture images and stories that will inspire and motivate people to step out their front door and embrace adventure. As one of the founders and tour leaders at Discovery Photo Tours, he gets the chance to share his love for travel and photography with avid photo enthusiasts from all over the world. Savouring art, food, history, and culture with tour groups in places like Africa, Jordan, Italy, and Iceland is one of the most rewarding aspects of his work.His fa

As you might know, we are doing a bi-monthly photo contest on our Facebook group, The Traveling Image Makers’ Corner. We invite the group members to submit one of their best photographs and, at the end of the period, we pick two winners and invite them to come on the show and tell us about their winning images and their photography.The winners for the month of March 2018, Michael Gerber and Alexia Cumin, submitted photos taken in Sofia, Bulgaria and Hong Kong, respectively. We thought those two stood above the rest, but it was a tough choice, since we got so many amazing submissions.Would you like to be one of the next guests on the podcast? Head over to our Facebook group, ask to join (if you’re not already a member) and look for the post pinned to the top for instructions. The contest for the month of May 2018 is already open and we intend to do a new contest every two months. Let’s see your best travel images! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The guest for this week's episode of the podcast, hosted by Ralph, is British photographer and videographer Peter Ragg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Piet (pronounced as “Pete”) Van den Eynde is a Belgian freelance photographer, trainer and prolific author.In 2009, he threw his camera, a flash and umbrella in his bicycle panniers and cycled for one year through Turkey, Iran, India and Indonesia.He loves travel, photography and off-camera flash so his photographic work is often a combination of those three.Together with travel photographer Matt Brandon, Piet organizes travel photography workshops in India and Mongolia.Piet is also a Fujifilm X Photographer and a Fujifilm Ambassador for Fujifilm Belgium.On April 1st, 2018, Piet released the updated and expanded second edition of his 15th eBook, Light It Up! Techniques for Dramatic Off-Camera Flash. In this 185 page PDF eBook, he introduces you to the concepts, techniques and gear that are required to create stunning photographs with flash. The eBook is the culmination of over 10 years of experience with real-life location flash in general and off-camera flash in particular.In this episode of the podcast

The guest for this week’s episode of the podcast is Karthika Gupta, is a lifestyle, wedding, and travel photographer based in the Chicago area.We were intrigued by a series of articles she wrote for Digital Photography School and especially one about being a culturally sensitive photographer, with a series of tips that everyone should pay attention to, when traveling to countries whose cultures and traditions differ from ours.Duration 46m 09s. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we’re going to talk mostly about street photography. Whereas street photography is not necessarily practiced while traveling (many street photographers have actually become famous for portraying the scenes of their hometown), we think that photographing life in the streets goes a long way towards documenting the reality of the cities and countries we visit.Because of this, we often like to interview people who have chosen to practice this somewhat popular but often misunderstood genre, like our guest of today, Marco Larousse.Marco is an international analog and digital fine art, street and documentary photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. He has a background in photography of 30+ years. In the 1990’s he developed his passion for classic street and documentary photograph. He shares this passion in his workshops or public speeches on street photography. Marco strives to create a positive awareness for this important art form by documenting contemporary daily life for future generations in a world where

Our guest for this edition of the podcast is British travel photographer Matt Widgery.Besides being a good sport and someone who’s always fun to be around, Matt has a lot of interesting stories to share, starting with the way photography saved him from an alcohol addiction, as he says in his about page:“Photography basically saved my life. I had a long addiction to alcohol and it nearly destroyed me. But I don’t say this to get sympathy. Today I get to travel all over the world, shooting and teaching in some of the best locations on Earth. I shot in 16 countries last year! My life is beyond amazing and I am so thankful that I was able to discover my passion and use it to create the life I always wanted. The only way I know how to express this gratitude is to pay it forward. Teaching others the skills that gave me this incredible life is such a privilege.”We also talked with Matt about the country he recently discovered and started loving so much, Greece. If you ever intended to travel and photograph ther

Our guest for this episode of the podcast is Belgian travel photographer Sébastien Beun.This is what Sébastien says about himself:"Photography, for me, is a lifelong and everlasting passion. It is what makes me feel emotions, breathe, live. Photography challenges me to share my life, my thoughts, my perception of the world that surrounds me, with others, and to share in their lives as well. From the waterfalls of Iceland, to the mountains of the Alps, the Palazzi of Venice, to a small Maasai village in Tanzania, to watching my children grow, photography is the rhythm to which I live my life.Photography came to a pause by the time I went to university. I studied dentistry and then started a PhD focusing on possible improvements of restorative dental materials. Once the PhD was completed, I started teaching and I am now professor of restorative dentistry. In 2009, I started photography again but only occasionally, while on vacation. I eventually got back to photography more seriously late 2012 and now travel as

Nigerian-born Lola Akinmade Åkerström’s photography and travel writing are characterized by vibrancy and hope. Graduating with a Masters (MSc) degree in Information Systems from the University of Maryland with a minor in Geography, she specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for 12+ years and her affinity for the geosciences and maps meant she was born to travel.She is the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award recipient.Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Travel Channel, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, National Geographic Channel, several in-flight magazines, New York Times online, amongst others.Some of her articles and photography have been syndicated on MSNBC, Slate, Yahoo, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun Times, Huffington Post, and Time Warner.Her latest book is Lagom, The Swedish Secret of Living Well.Lagom sums up the Swedish psyche and is a way of living that promotes harmony. It celebrates fairness, moderati

As you might know, we are doing a bi-monthly photo contest on our Facebook group, The Traveling Image Makers' Corner. We invite the group members to submit one of their best photographs and, at the end of the period, we pick two winners and invite them to come on the show and tell us about their winning images and their photography.The winners for the month of January 2018, Fabian Pfitzinger and Kevin Wenning, submitted photos taken in Wadi Rum, Jordan and Tinmel, Morocco, respectively. We thought those two stood above the rest, but it was a tough choice, since we got so many amazing submissions.Would you like to be one of the next guests on the podcast? Head over to our Facebook group, ask to join (if you're not already a member) and look for the post pinned to the top for instructions. The contest for the month of March 2018 is already open and we intend to do a new contest every two months. Let’s see your best travel images!Duration 44m 00s. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danielle Da Silva is a director, photographer, public speaker, activist and writer who specialises in sustainable development and psychology. Her main focus is communicating the extraordinary efforts of people around the world working to solve the most challenging problems. Her deepest passions are conserving parklands, fostering equality, and empowering ordinary people to find their power. Danielle is the Founder and CEO of Photographers Without Borders (PWB), a Co-Founder of the Sumatran Wildlife Sanctuary, and is also on the board of the Dandelion Initiative in Toronto.Danielle is comfortable in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, some Swahili and Indonesian, and can read and write Arabic. She is hoping to familiarise herself with Hindi and ASL as well. Danielle has earned Bachelor of Science Degrees in Conservation Biology, Psychology and Global Studies with Honours from the University of Western Ontario, as well as an MSc. in Environment and Development from the London Scho

We often get emails and messages from listeners who ask us advice on how to take great travel photos, so this week we wanted to record a special episode. We don’t have the usual interview with a guest this time but decide instead to spend some time giving you our best tips to help you get better photos every time you take a trip.Some examples of the topics we covered include:The importance of a shot listTelling storiesThe power of oneHaving a theme in mindWatching your backgroundsTiming and anticipationDon’t be shyPoint and shootThis is an episode packed with useful, practical information, but if you love interviews don’t worry. We’ll be back next week with another awesome guest.If you found this useful and would love more detail, don’t miss Ralph’s next free webinar, where he will be going much more in depth about his favorite tips for taking great travel photographs.Duration 45m 41s. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jen Loong (龙晓灵) is the snap-happy founder for a new type of travel tech startup that marries photography with social impact. Jen’s vision is to start an empathy movement, where vanity can create social good with real income opportunities in developing communities.Living truly as a global citizen tracing her upbringing in HK, Vancouver and Shanghai, Jen has since travelled to 42+ countries photographing underprivileged communities, and speaking five languages in total. Her stories from the road can be seen in the Huffington Post, VICE, Globe and Mail, just to name a few. You can view more of her experiences in running the inaugural North Korea Pyongyang Marathon, farming in a Nepali women’s co-op, and dancing in the matriarchal Mosuo tribe in Yunnan on Instagram @loongstoryshort.To marry her passions for deeper social impact and story-telling, Jen is launching her own venture, Wandersnap – a travel photographer for-hire platform as a means to offer job opportunities around developing worlds. Creativity should

We recently found this article at the Matador Network website: 17 female travel photographers who slayed 2017and it got us thinking that we should have more women on the show. I know we always strive to be as inclusive as possible, but sometimes it’s hard to think of female photographers in an industry that is very much male-dominated, so we were more than happy to have so many names to pick potential guests from. By the way, the list was compiled by our good friend and past guest, Kate Siobhan Mulligan, so thank you Kate!Anyway, we found some names on that list that we hadn’t heard of previously and discovered some great work and fascinating insights into the world of travel photography by looking at their websites, so we started sending out invites to some of them and this is how we got to know our guest of this week, Taylor Roades.Taylor is a self taught travel photographer based in Vancouver British Columbia; originally from Toronto, ON. Photography has taken her across Asia, and South America. She s