My Travel Writer Journey with GEP
Growing up on the beaches in sunny Southern California was the initiation for my love of travel. Being an avid surfer as a teenager, I traveled up and down the coast of Californiato sample the many incredible beach breaks. As I got older, the Hawaiian Islandswere next on the bucket list. As the years progressed,…
How GEP Took Me From Teacher to Travel Writer and Photographer
During many years of travel and teaching English as a foreign language in Thailand and Guatemala, I’d often dreamed of earning from my combined passions of travel, photography, and writing. However, I believed it required years of training and was an unattainable goal. Then, at a time when I needed some direction in life, I attended…
3 Tips to Turn Your Passion into a Career
Last year I decided to drop everything and chase my dream of becoming a freelance travel writer. I had been overseas five times in 12 months and I knew there had to be a way I could turn my passion for immersing myself in the unknown and sharing my adventures through writing into a reliable…
5 Dos and 2 Don’ts for Travel Photography
“Where was that taken? It’s gorgeous!” is something I love to hear, strive to hear. When your photo gets a response like that you know you’ve hit the mark as a photographer. My photos are a constant joy for me and have sold with articles, been the main subject in photo journal articles, been published…
Photography Tips for Non-Photographers
As a travel writer, I’m often asked to provide photos with my stories. While I’ve got a decent eye for framing and a pretty good phone camera, I still find the idea of submitting photos fairly intimidating. Reason being? I started my career in a magazine environment where there was a clear delineation between writers…
Photographing Without a Tripod
Photographers often have a love-hate relationship with their tripods. On the one hand, a tripod will give you the sharpest images possible and let you play with creative techniques such as long exposure photography. On the other hand, they can be a bit cumbersome and time-consuming to deal with. While tripods are great for getting…
3 Steps to Success in Videography
Today, I’m sitting on the end of a dock mesmerized at the ripples in the water created by the comfortable breeze. Over my shoulder in the western sky, late summer thunderheads are building and white egrets are shrimping. This setting makes me think of a question I hear often, “How did you get here?” Specifically…
I Sold My First Video Days After Taking This Course
Shortly after signing up for the Travel Videos for Profit program, I was having a chat with one of my best friends who runs an ad agency. She asked if I thought video could help one of her clients gain more visibility for a product, and I was able to tell her what I’d learned…
How I Went From Writer, to Photographer, to Videographer
Saying the teensy tiny simple little word “yes” started me down my travel writer’s path. Since then, “yes” along with “try” have become my two favorite words. They motivate me, excite me and have blessed my life with too many amazing new adventures to count. Because of those words my life has completely changed, expanded,…
How One Photo Can Land Big Benefits
From time to time I take a picture that I think is pretty amazing and that others will possibly love as well. So it will get me thinking about photography contests. It is also one thing I love about stock photography—seeing my pictures out there in use associated with great brands. Several years ago I…