When it comes to image processing, Lightroom is like a Swiss Army knife. Its many tools can be very useful for organizing, cleaning, mapping, and processing your photos while on the road. Here are the 4 best tools in Lightroom—in my opinion—to use on your travels: 1. Collections. When taking photos in multiple locations and […]
There’s an expression in the Bedouin culture that means you are 2/3 your uncle. A mother’s brother plays an important role in raising the kids. They say they can identify which family a child belongs to by the way they act more than the way they look. The child may look like he belongs to […]
Jordan took a little piece of my heart last week. If you’ve been a reader for a long time, you know that Tanzania ranks at the very top of my list of places to see. But Jordan—and the way I saw it last week through humanitarian photographer Joe Sindorf’s eyes—might just beat it. It has […]
Sitting in the back of a 4-wheel-drive pickup, making our way through the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan where Moses once led 300,000 Israelites out of Egypt, it was hard to stop reflecting on what I might be doing at home in this moment if I were not here. Would I be bathing my children? […]
As I showed in my article yesterday, implying the passage of time in a photograph by blurring it can make the image unique and help it tell a story. Yesterday’s photo was a group of cyclists streaking by on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam. For moving objects, like cars, motorbikes, or kids running a soccer […]
“Oops!” “Darn it!” “Missed another one.” These are some of the things I was saying to myself as I was trying to get a decent shot of fast-moving traffic in downtown Hanoi. I was fascinated by the variety of vehicles streaking past me, from conventional cars to motor scooters to bicycles, all engaged in a […]
Bonnie here, again. One of the things I like to do when I’m playing with my photo skills is turn myself into a twin. It’s weird. I know. Probably comes from 38 years as an only child. But psychoanalysis aside, it’s one of my favorite art projects and a big reason I’m attracted to photography—because […]
On New Year’s Day, 2018, I woke up to bright sun and near silence in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was my first day living there, and the streets below were deserted, the stores shuttered. (A very inaccurate picture of what would become a constant din of noise, crowds, and commotion in the coming days). It […]
Imagine that you’re in a room. You have limited time in this room. But you don’t know how long. On the shelves are thousands of things to try. You can try bubble baths or sky diving. Chocolate martinis or heartache. A long career, a stint as a street performer, college, travel, acrobatics, kids, mountain climbing, […]
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange I had always thought of myself as a creative person. For instance, I love to draw and write, but adult life and responsibilities pushed those thoughts away and I ended up studying in a field I wasn’t passionate […]
