Travel

What does a good travel photo look like?

Big Sky Namibia
Ely Coast, Scotland
Crossing to Vancouver, Canada

We can do sunsets, especially African easily enough.

African Sunset I
African Sunset II

Is it all about the place, outstanding scenery maybe?

Namibia
Yosemite
Namibia Naukluft Namibia
Etosha Namibia
Namibia Naukluft Namibia
Highland, Scotland
Etosha Namibia

Or maybe it’s better if we stick a building into the picture somewhere

Highland castle
Highland castle, Scotland
Highlands castle
Varanasi boats
 Or maybe a boat or two.
Tonle Sap, Cambodia
Thimupu Bhutan
Seville cathedral

Does a picture of human intervention in a beautiful place, add or lose interest in the photo?

Mekong Houseboats, Laos
Bhutanese Prayer Flags

Maybe if it’s alien enough, the photo could just be the detail, the hint of a thing.

Bangkok Temple Detail
Bangkok Temple
Bangkok Temple Detail

Delhi Detail
Mezquita, Cordoba
Alhambra Arches
Jerusalem, Israel

Does a good travel need to be human, with people and children?

Chill, Thailand
Burma Refugee, Thailand
Whirling Dancer, Egypt
Strontium Games, Scotland

Does it have interesting people doing interesting things?

Delhi Cleaning
Delhi Sikh temple
Second Thoughts Kathmandu
Seriously Dad?, Varanasi

Because I have a few of those.

Varanasi Holy man and Acolyte
Fishing, Tonle Sap

Or maybe we could just think about animals, local of foreign, cute or not so much.

Zebra Etosha
Cheetah Lunch, Namibia
Cheetah II, Namibia
Baby Elephant, Namibia

We live in an astonishing world.