Published on The Punch - My thoughts on your travel pics.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, take photos. Wondering how to take great holiday snaps? Ben Groundwater has tips from Richard I'Anson , professional photographer and author of Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography, on how to take the perfect pic. Except he’s forgotten the best tip on taking travel photos. Don’t. Put the camera down and go do something. As Ben says, many travellers fancy themselves as photographers and “like to take the odd snap to show off to their friends back home”. But it’s not the “odd snap”. It’s endless monotonous sunsets, sunrises, and blurred pics of the view from the train window, plane window and the local toilets. So many photos I wonder if they did anything on the trip other than press the shutter button. There’s the scenery bore, usually a single traveller who takes endless shots of landscape and them standing in front of it, safe in the knowledge that their precious pictures are unsoiled by social interaction. “This, this is a shot of a ...