Welcome to World of Travel Photography
We’re glad you found us!
Our goal is to help you become a better travel photographer.
Here you’ll find photography tutorials, gear reviews, location guides and real stories by real photographers about everything from their wildest experiences to how much money you can make doing this professionally.
If we can help even just a handful of photography enthusiasts to realise their dream of making a living using their camera, then we’ve done what we set out to achieve.
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WHO’S BEHIND WORLD OF TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY?
Hi, my name is Charlie.
I started making a full-time income from travel photography in 2015 and since then I’ve travelled all over the world, staying in different cities and towns from anywhere between a month to a year. I prefer to travel slowly since I work remotely. I need to be able to commit to a 40-hour work week and I simply don’t have the time to constantly be on the move. Including countries I visited before becoming a full-time digital nomad, I’ve been to over 30 countries so far on every continent apart from Africa (stay tuned, I’ve got plans) and Antartica.
Before going full-time with travel photography, I worked as a copywriter, SEO consultant and social media manager for a number of different companies. It was my love for engaging with an online audience that led me to start World of Travel Photography. Some of these companies are still my clients, but my job now is to supply them with images for social media of their products being used in exciting places around the world.
My writing and photos have been featured on industry leading websites such as Digital Photography School, Atlas Obscura and the world’s leading underwater photography resource The Underwater Photography Guide. I authored an eBook called “Breaking Into Travel Photography: The complete guide to carving out a career in travel photography” that has been published on Amazon. My stock images have also appeared in ads promoting destinations and companies that sometimes has been a surprise, even to me. But I guess that’s the nature of stock photography, you never know who will license them!
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Here you’ll find all the inspiration and knowledge you need to start a career that can open up a world of possibilities.
We hope that we can motivate you to shoot more and realise that, with some hard work, you can become a successful travel photographer.
GET TO KNOW WORLD OF TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
World of Travel Photography was originally started in 2016 by Charlie Gardiner as a personal photography blog. But, it didn’t take long to realise that the thing most people were interested in was how they could become travel photographers themselves.
So, over time this website became more about encouraging and showing people how to make money from a genre of photography that can help them see more of the world we live in. We have now grown to the point where over 30 talented photographers from all over the world have contributed tutorials, gear reviews and location guides to this site.
Although Charlie still writes articles and takes care of the day-to-day running of this site, there are also a couple of other regular contributors whose names you’ll probably see cropping up every now and then if you stick around here long enough. We pride ourselves on only putting out high quality and unique articles that you won’t find anywhere else. So if you’re interested in travel photography, you’re in the right place.
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