13 articles tagged with photography tips
The light in southwestern Uganda has a quality I've never encountered elsewhere – golden and rich, yet somehow soft against the rolling emerald hills of Mbarara. After documenting monasteries across three continents, I found myself drawn to this lesser-traveled corner...
There's something about mountains that keeps pulling me back – that feeling when you're standing at a summit, camera in hand, watching golden light spill across the landscape below. Last month, between shifts and a medical conference in Denver, I...
When my husband Arjun suggested we take our five-year-old daughter Nia to his colleague's homeland of Uganda, I was immediately intrigued by the photographic possibilities. Having spent years documenting our family's wellness journeys across continents, I was eager to shift...
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve stretches across 52,800 square kilometers of wilderness—a photographer's canvas painted with golden grasslands, ancient baobabs, and some of Africa's most resilient wildlife. Having photographed across six continents, I can confidently say that few landscapes challenge...
The first time I glimpsed Lake Titicaca's shimmering surface from the hillside approach to Puno, I understood why the Incas believed it to be the birthplace of the sun. At 3,812 meters above sea level, where the air thins and...
There's a moment that every wildlife photographer lives for – that split second when your subject, a wild predator in its natural habitat, locks eyes with your lens. I experienced this visceral connection while tracking a leopard through the flooded...
The Maasai Mara's golden grasslands stretched before me like nature's own canvas, painted with acacia trees and dotted with wildlife that seemed to pose specifically for my lens. As a Foreign Service Officer who's traveled through conservation zones across four...
The morning call to prayer echoes across Kandahar's ancient skyline as golden light spills over mud-brick walls that have witnessed millennia of history. I stand atop my guesthouse roof, camera in hand, watching this city of contradictions awaken. After years...
As I stepped onto my hotel balcony that first morning in Rio de Janeiro, the interplay of golden light against the dramatic topography immediately transported me back to my first dental conference in Brazil fifteen years ago. The city's unique...
Last spring, I found myself with a rare three-day weekend between EMT shifts and a standing invitation from my Dutch friend Marieke. Despite typically gravitating toward more rugged landscapes, something about the legendary Keukenhof Gardens called to me. Perhaps it...
There's something about marketplaces that draws in the investigative mind. The hustle, the stories woven between vendor stalls, the subtle negotiations happening in corners – it's a microcosm of human interaction that feels oddly familiar to someone who's spent years...
There's something almost cinematically perfect about standing in the Colosseum after the crowds have dispersed, when twilight bathes the ancient stones in golden light before surrendering to the velvet darkness of night. The first time I experienced Rome's ancient monuments...
The escalator descends and I'm suddenly awash in electric blue light. Cave-like rock formations loom overhead, painted in an otherworldly azure that feels both primordial and futuristic. I've edited countless articles about hidden urban treasures, but Stockholm's tunnelbana system—the city's...