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Yawning baboon at Kruger National Park, South Africa. Name: CAROL POLICH Country: MONTANA, USA What’s in the bag: Canon 7D, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon Lenses – 70-200 F2.8, Canon 500 F4; Sigma Len...
- by Richard I’Anson The great artists of the past discovered that by placing the main elements of a composition at points one-third of the way from the edges of the frame their paintings becam...
Wong Lok Street, Hong Kong; Canon 7D, 15-85mm at 22mm, 1/13 f/4.0, raw, IS0 100 (Kylie McLaughlin). Tunnel neighbourhood small restaurants, Istiklal Street, Istanbul (Izzet Keribar). Words: By Richar...
- By Richard I’Anson An environmental portrait of Richard I'Anson on the job in Ladakh, India. Environmental portraits add context and allow the viewer to learn something about the person...
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano started erupting in January 1983 and has remained continually active ever since. The amount of lava coming out of the vent varies greatly from day to day, which c...
- Words by Richard I’Anson Sunset at Chowpatty Beach, Mumbai (Huw Jones). Everyone takes sunrise and sunset photographs from time to time. It’s almost an initiation rite on the path to becoming...
- words and images by Ruth Eastham and Max Paoli Lonely Planet photographers Ruth Eastham and Max Paoli slow down their shutter speeds to capture more dynamic images that give an extra sense of place...
- words and pictures by Richard I’Anson Shanghai’s Bund, New York’s Fifth Ave, Memphis’ Beale St, Dubrovnik’s Placa and Paris’ Champs Élysées are streets that demand to be photographed. Their v...
- words and pictures by Mark Newman I had just finished a book about polar bears when I received an email from Laura Godwin, Vice President of Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, located in New ...
- Words and pictures by Richard I’Anson Skyscrapers dominate the skyline and central business district of most large cities. They are often difficult to photograph as it’s hard to get far enoug...
- Words and pictures by Richard I’Anson It’s quite an achievement to take consistently creative images. This is largely because the elements that go into the creative side of image-making defy ...
- Words and pictures by Mark Newman I had already been photographing wild horses for fifteen years when I had the opportunity to spend a week with a wild herd in the Spring of 1994, and it had a powe...
Do these images look familiar to you? You may recognise some of these scenes from such places as your mate’s living room wall. Yes, these images have sold a hundred times over to wistful travel...
- Words and pictures by Mark Newman Steve Seegers and I were good friends living in Hawaii in 1976 when we decided on a whim to try to produce an article for National Geographic about the American bi...
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He just was passing by and wanted to say hello. I have always loved all forms of wildlife and over the past 30 years have travelled to the seven continents to observe and photograph many different sp...
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- Words and pictures by Tony Burns, photographer for Lonely Planet Images It’s hard to go anywhere in the world these days and find places which haven’t already been photographed to death – par...
- words and pictures by Richard I’Anson Capturing strong, well lit, well composed close-ups of people in the brief encounter that typifies travel photography is a challenging proposition. It’s ...
- Words and images by Richard I’Anson Auto & bicycle rickshaws, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 35mm SLR, 35mm lens, 1/125 f5.6, Ektachrome E100VS. No pictorial coverage of the urban environment would b...
Clouds over the Simpson Desert, Western Australia. - words and pictures by Richard I’Anson Many landscape photographers wait for clear blue skies, but with cloudless skies landscapes quickly be...
- words and images by Richard I’Anson Every large city has a unique skyline and getting to a vantage point in the first or last hour of the day should be a top priority in every city you visit....
By Andy Rouse Light There is no doubt that interesting light can make the difference between a good picture and a truly great picture. We all like to photograph in sunlight but as wildlife photograph...
- Words and images by Richard I’Anson Good compositions leave no doubt as to the subject of the photograph. A good way to start is to fill the frame with your subject. This helps to eliminate u...
- by Kylie McLaughlin Having freshly returned from a five week stint overseas, an LPI team member thought they’d share their experiences using photography gear on the road. Here’s their list ...
Although Mother’s Day is celebrated at different times of the year around the globe, this Sunday marks Mother’s Day in most countries around the world. In honour of mothers everywhere, w...
Why include foreground in your images? Lonely Planet photographers Ruth Eastham and Max Paoli give us their thoughts… Colourful flower beds with Bruck Castle (Schloss Bruck) beyond, Tirol, Austria. W...
-Words and pictures by Richard I’Anson Quality of light The quality of natural light is determined by the position of the sun and the weather. Light quality can vary from one moment to the next...
- Words and pictures by Richard I’Anson The ability of light to transform a subject or scene from the ordinary to the extraordinary is one of the most powerful tools at the photographer’s dispo...
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