7 Essential Steps to Get Articles Published Today
What a year 2020 has been, right? As travel writers, our job is to travel, experience new things, write about them, and find publications to share those stories with readers all over the world. In late 2019 and early 2020, I submitted 12 articles with photo essays to several print magazines in my area. I…
Don’t Let Fear Stop You Become a Travel Writer
Even if it means battling hurricanes like I did (literally), I believe that if you want something you can achieve it. Realistic goals that is. I’m not saying that I could become an astronaut next week, that’s unrealistic. But I do believe that everyone who wants to become a travel writer can learn how to string…
Overcoming Roadblocks in Your Photography Journey
In March 2017, in -23 F weather at the Northern Lights Photography Expedition in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, Bonnie Caton told me, “You’re an expert at what you do for your primary job at home. Give yourself a break. This is hard.” I’d been taking photos all my life but couldn’t get this brand-new, expensive…
Myths About Smartphone Photography
These days you don’t need a fancy camera worth thousands of dollars to take great photos—your smartphone is all you need. Your smartphone is capable of taking amazing photos. The cameras have evolved to a point where it delivers clear, crisp images good enough for publication. To prove it let me dispel a few common…
7 Ways to Sell Your Travel Photos
So, you’ve taken some brilliant photos of your travels and shared them with your friends and family. Someone said these are good enough to be in a magazine and then you thought so too. Now the question is, how do you do that? And where do you start? Well, I have compiled a list of…
4 Steps Toward Becoming a Professional Photographer
Have you ever had that exhilarating feeling of realizing that someone somewhere found your photo and loved it enough to buy it and put it on their wall? The first sale I made a decade ago paved the road to pursuing photography as a career after studying law and working five years in HR. When…
7 Keys to Success in Photography
I’ve learned a lot in the last eight years as a photographer, lessons that I love to pass on to those coming after me. It doesn’t feel like that long ago I was just starting out like you. Here are a few insights I use every single day as a photographer. You can adopt them…
4 Tips To Help You Score FAM Trip Invitations
Definition: A FAM trip is a familiarisation trip offered by tourism destinations or resorts to travel writers, bloggers, influencers and media professionals for a personal experience. The intention is to generate PR and media mentions to educate potential visitors and entice more visitors. Going on a FAM trip is like grabbing the “brass ring” of…
Play the Long Game in Stock Photography
Consider stock photography the long game. It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme; at least it hasn’t been for me. I’ve been uploading photos onto stock sites for few years, very sporadically. It’s never been my intention to be a serious stock photographer. I look at stock sales income as a part of my retirement plan. Many photographers…
Find Your Niche in Photography
It took me a while to learn what kind of photographer I am and stop feeling like an imposter when I told people I was a professional. When I was first smitten by photography, I shot everything. It seemed every week there was something new that piqued my interest. Landscapes, pets, kids and family, street and urban…