With thousands of users and photographers sharing their photos in the social media world, Misterlocation, an international online marketplace for photo studios, has picked the best travel and landscape photos of this week. It is an opportunity to be inspired to travel and also follow and connect with many other wanderers of the world.
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1. Surfing Under the Northern Lights by Chris Burkard
Chris is a professional photographer but most of all, he’s a risk taker. He always loved the waves. Living in Pismo Beach CA, he was always looking for the perfect wave. After doing a lot of research, he has found that the best waves in the world are in cold temperatures. To do so, he has traveled to Iceland with a group of professional surfers to chase the perfect wave. Under challenging circumstances in freezing temperatures, he was able to take the most amazing photos of waves and surfers. You can see more in his short film “Under an Arctic Sky.”
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2. Sunset at Vasco Da Gama Bridge by Andy Mumford
Andy is a great Fuji-X landscape photographer. His work has been published in many photography magazines around the world. He’s also a great teacher. He has a YouTube channel and shares his knowledge on landscape photography and camera gear. It is important to learn the basics from a real photographer and not from just a camera reviewer. You will get much more valuable information. He teaches that imagination and creativity is more important than camera gear. Andy constantly travels the world and sharing his trips in his Instagram account via live stories.
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3. The Milky Way and long Exposure by Benjamin Jaworsky
Benjamin Jaworskyj is a well-known photographer and adventurer from Germany. He started learning photography about ten years ago, and today he travels the world as a professional photographer and filmmaker. He shares his personal experiences, mistakes and photography tips on his YouTube channel as well as his landscape photography courses and photo editing techniques on his website. If you want to be inspired, head over to one of his latest photography documentaries filmed in Australia. This photo was taken in Spain, the last day of the year 2018 showing The Milky Way.
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4. Serenity by Rachel Jones Ross
There’s no better feeling in the world than feel peaceful. In this photo we see a kid walking on the beach, felling untroubled. It reminds me of my childhood, running free and careless. Rachel Jones is a Sony Alpha landscape and astroscape photographer. She has been adventuring, shooting, creating and pushing herself to stretch her comfort zone, and focus on reacting to the environment as it unfolds in front of her. She mostly uses the new Sony a7Riii with the 70-200mm f/2.8 G Master lens that captures amazingly sharp images.
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5. Penguins in Antarctica by Paul Nicklen
Paul Nicklen is a National Geographic photographer, film-maker and marine biologist from Canada. He has documented life in Antarctica of polar bears, leopard seals, penguins, and other species and has also been awarded from BBC wildlife “photographer of the year” competition for many years. In this photo, we see Adelie penguins who have found this iceberg as a refuge from predators. Under the ice, they feed on krill and tiny shrimp-like crustaceans. As climate changes and temperatures rising faster than ever before, ice is essential for their survival.
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6. Voyage to Atlantis by Angela Pequeno
Angela is a freelance photographer based in Dubai. She uses Fujifilm X-Series cameras and lenses. Despite these cameras having a crop-factor, the image quality is excellent and the colors in the images are really vibrant. She photographs landscapes, portraits and sports.
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7. The Lunar Eclipse by Steffen Eisenacher
Night and astro-photography is fascinating. In this photo, the moon is enlarged by 75%. The photo was taken with two different focal lengths of 24mm and 100mm and was blended in Photoshop. Photo editing can do wonders these days. Steffen is a landscape photographer based in Kiel, Germany. He’s also a traveler and stormchaser. He uses Canon cameras and he’s part of the @canon_photos on Instagram.
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8. Diving into perfect warm turquoise water in the Philippines by Emmett Sparling
Emmett is a Canon shooter and he travels the world to take photos. This particular photo was taken in the Philippines and as he says, it was really hard to edit. He spent many hours to get the colors just right. In real life, that turquoise water color is even more saturated. Who wouldn’t want to dive in these waters right?
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9. Reflections at Glacier National Park, Montana by Peter Marlow
Montana has so many beautiful places to visit, especially lakes, rivers and National Parks like Glacier and Yellowstone. This photo was taken by Peter Marlow, a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. It shows how a photographer can use reflections in their work. Magnum photos are considered to be the best photos from the best photographers ever worldwide. Their members share their unique photos, showcasing life and curiosity from what’s going on in the world.
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10. Santiago, Cuba by Steve McCurry
Steve is one of the best photographers and journalists in the world. He’s well known for the portrait photo “The Afghan Girl” he took when he was in Afghanistan back in 1984. He’s also a member of Magnum Photos and National Geographic. In this photo, he’s showing life as it is now in Cuba, from a coffee-growing province of Santiago. Coffee has been cultivated in Cube since the mid-1700s.
Many travel photographers (especially in National Geographic), share their experiences with photos and videos that sometimes shock the world. Such photographers contribute for the greater good and want to make the world a better place. Do you take photos while traveling? What is your latest experience? Let us know in the comments.
