The Traveling Image Makers

The guest for this episode of the podcast is an old friend of the Traveling Image Makers podcast. We recorded episode TTIM 66 – David duChemin and The Soul of the Camera with him a while back.

David is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and international workshop leader. 

Based in Victoria, Canada, when he’s home, David leads a nomadic life chasing compelling images on all 7 continents.

He just reopened for enrollment his travel photography course, The Traveling Lens. You can sign up for it only until January 24.

Ralph and Ugo ask David about his course: How is it structured? What can students hope to learn from it? Why shoot it in Varanasi, India?

They also discuss other, more general topics pertaining to photography and travel, like what it means to be compassionate, how to grab the subject’s attention, being present in the moment, quantity vs. quality, visual inventories, and more.

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In this week’s episode of the podcast, Ugo interviews Mike Holp.

Mike is a digital nomad and travel photographer from Austin, Texas. He’s been traveling in South America for over a year, capturing photos of beautiful destinations, and meeting new friends from all over the world! Mike is offering a coaching program to other aspiring digital nomads with the proven techniques for long-term travel on a budget. He recently launched an online course and free eBook on how to generate passive income with Airbnb every month without owning property or renting out your space. It’s now possible to work from anywhere in the world on your laptop.

Mike and Ugo had a conversation about what it means to live as a digital nomad, how to generate passive income through photography, writing, affiliate marketing, and traveling across South America.

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Last week’s interview with Jay Patel, where we discussed the topic of creativity is a great segue into today’s episode, because we are going to have a conversation with an artist that has chosen creative photography as his trademark of sorts.

Simon Bond is a professional freelance travel photographer who focuses on the Asian continent for his work, he has travelled extensively in this region and is dedicated to producing the best quality travel photographs. Simon cut his teeth in the dark room when he was 15, from there he learnt how to use an SLR camera, and has subsequently moved on into the digital world as he now owns a Canon 5D MkII.

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Today’s episode of the podcast sees the return of one of our best friends, who was with us already in episode 36, Jay Patel.

In the course of the conversation, Jay and Ugo discuss such topics as getting the shots when the weather is not cooperating, researching a destination to make the most of limited time, and finding ways to be creative beyond the iconic shot that many limit themselves to.

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As you might know, we are doing a bi-monthly photo contest on our Facebook group, The Traveling Image Makers’ Corner. We invite the group members to submit one of their best photographs and, at the end of the period, we pick two winners and invite them to come on the show and tell us about their winning images and their photography.

The winners for the month of October 2018, Peter de Hoog and Mathew Browne, submitted photos taken in Venice, Italy and Singapore, respectively. We thought those two stood above the rest, but it was a tough choice, since we got so many amazing submissions.

Would you like to be one of the next guests on the podcast? Head over to our Facebook group, ask to join (if you’re not already a member) and look for the post pinned to the top for instructions. Let’s see your best travel images!

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Our guest for this episode is Marc De Tollenaere, a photographer from Venice, Italy.

Marc works full time as a photographer and is proud to be a teacher of photography for the most famous brand of cameras, Leica. He published several books about Venice and its countryside, as well as on countless newspapers and magazines.

Starting from 2010, up to nowadays, he organized many photo workshops and photo tours, especially in Venice, of which he has a thorough knowledge, and in several others countries such as India, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Turkey and Iceland.

In 2014 he became Leica Ambassador and in 2018 he was “Certified by Leica”.

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It’s always exciting to listen to Karen Hutton talk about her travels and her passions and, after having had her as a guest on episode 34, it was about time that we invited her back.

Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice. She has over 2 million followers on social media; with over 11 billion views of her photographic work. She is a Professional Fujifilm-X Photographer and has been featured in Talks at Google, Photo Plus Expo and on Stuck in Customs, TWiP, Macphun Software, Forbes.com, The Grid, Rick Sammon’s DPE Podcast. Karen lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. You can find her at Karenhutton.com.

Karen just returned from a trip to Slovenia, a country that we deeply love, so this was the perfect opportunity to have her on the show to talk about it.

We didn’t just talk about Slovenia, but also about Karen’s photo retreats, the demise of Google+, and many other topics.

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The guest for this episode of the podcast, as his LinkedIn profile states, is a Business Manager, Communication and Social Media Specialist with over 15 years of marketing, communication and sales experience, working for a major manufacturer of photo equipment.

But first of all, Leigh Diprose is a photographer and a friend.

After having known each other virtually for more than six year, Ugo and Leigh had finally the chance to meet face-to-face and to spend a few days together when Leigh was traveling across Europe on his honeymoon, or his elopement, as he prefers to call it.

For this experience, the interview you can listen to here was born. Ugo and Leigh discussed about Europe as seen through the lens of an Australian on his first voyage to the Old World, but also about what Australia has to offer to a visitor from abroad, photographically speaking.

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This week’s edition of the podcast is a bit special. Unlike our typical episode, where we have a conversation with a guest, what we’ve done this time is to contact some of our previous guests and ask them one question. We’ve already done this twice in the past, when we published our “expert roundups” but this time we’ve also asked them to record their answer, so you can hear it in their own voice.

The question we asked was the following:

What makes a great travel photo?

We received and collected answers from 21 of our guests, so there’s a lot of information here for you to consume. They shared some great stories and we hope that listening to them will better equip everyone who wants to take up photography a little bit more seriously to avoid some mistakes at the beginning of their journey.

We also have a transcript of all the answers, that you can find below the fold, if you’d rather read them than listen.

Stay tuned for more expert roundups coming soon.

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In this episode, a conversation between Ralph and Ugo about the former’s recent trip to a pair of small, not very well-known, but beautiful and welcoming countries: Georgia and Armenia.

These two countries with a long history, which regained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, haven’t seen much tourism until recently and this means their beauty is still largely unspoilt, even though they are rapidly modernizing and the infrastructure is almost on par with European standards.

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