With Maya ruins, colonial architecture, biosphere reserves, jungles, hidden mangroves and spectacular cenotes, the Yucatan peninsula is a land of adventures and a photographer’s dream. Jeremy flint explores the region on foot, by boat and by bike.
Category: On Location
What happens once you arrive in your chosen destination? From insights into photographing different subjects to photography in different environments, we look at camera gear and kit along with different approaches in photographing everything you find.
Photographing birds – a wing and a prayer?
Photographing birds isn’t as easy as it looks but you don’t have to do it on a wing and a prayer. Here we take a look at different approaches, how to get started, the equipment you need and some useful techniques to help get the shots.
Dinner or deadly – foraging for fungi
Nature’s larder is abundant with fruits, plants and fungi. In the woods you’ll find lots to eat, lots to avoid and many things with medicinal properties so it’s time to go framing for fungi. With a bushcraft expert, an adventure in autumn woodland proved to be a fascinating experience.
Grizzly bear necessities in wild Alaska
Alaska is a wild and not easily accessible place. One of the rewards for getting to its more remote places is the opportunity to encounter wildlife in its own unspoilt natural habitat. My adventure was to meet and photograph the grizzly bears of Katmai.
Imminent death in paradise
Hawaii is synonymous with palm fringed beaches against a volcanic backdrop. It’s a holiday destination but also a wild place. However, this wild side is under threat.
Making waves
Problems sorted, it’s now time to do the first proper photographic shoot from Big Blue. It’s been a long wait but David heads fo Spurn Point, camera in hand
Ready, steady… errr go!
Big Blue Is finished, or at least finished enough for a test drive, so it’s time to get her on the road and start making the dream become a reality.
The big why?
Photographer David Newton decided in to change his life and live on the road with his partner, Jess, young daughter Isla and Otis the dog. With the conversion of Big Blue almost complete David reflects on the dream ahead.
Medium on the move
Are medium format cameras suitable for travel photography? Here we field test a medium-format camera on a shoot in Svalbard.
Human connections
Photographer-geographer Trevor Cole tells us how he approaches photographing the people he meets in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley and South Sudan, among other travels.
Lonely avenues
Lockdowns around the world have been shown to work but as fatigue set in, advertising photographer Keith Berr used his skills on a public health campaign in Cleveland, USA
Brief encounter
Ready to explore the jungle and armed with an image of the Congo’s lowland gorilla in his head, Andrew James sets out to get his shot.
Super-size me
A man, a woman, a baby and a dog explore the world in an ex-British army truck converted to a home on very big wheels.