New! First Images From The Fujifilm X-Pro1

It does appear the new Fujifilm X-Pro1 will prove to be a tough competitor, not only to the Leica M9 (as I thought it would), but also prove...

Sharon Johnson-Tennant: Diffusion & Magical Mystery Tour

Pilgrimage Home (Ladakh) - © Sharon Johnson-Tennant-All Rights Reserved Kitchen , Stok Monastery -© Sharon Johnson-Tennant-All Rights Reserv...

My Work: Kushti In Kolkata

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved During my Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Workshop , I chanced upon a group of tradi...

POV: Lost In Translation?

Photo © AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen- Courtesy DenverPost.com I've seen quite a few errors in the captions of photographs recently, but th...

Josef Tornick: The Hebrides

Photo © Josef Tornick-All Rights Reserved "I am deeply happy to have found my place, camera in hand, in this world." I normally do...

POV: 5th Anniversary...Yes, 5th!!!

I always write a post at this time of year to observe the annual anniversary/birthday of The Travel Photographer's blog . I've start...

Mark Carey: Viet Nam In Black & White

Photo © Mark Carey-All Rights Reserved "My photographic heart lies in documentary, showing things as they really are, not as someone ha...

A Year Ago...Egypt

Photo © Ed Ou  - All Rights Reserved In remembrance of those who fell in Tahrir and elsewhere. The Egyptian revolution started a year ago to...

The Year Of The Dragon: Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Photo © Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images-Courtesy Al Jazeera Ethnic Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese across Asia are ringing in the Year of the ...

POV: Fujifilm X-Pro 1 & Leica M9

One of my most popular blog posts is the recent FujiFilm X-Pro1: Is It A Threat To Leica? in which I thought that it might well be, dependi...

POV: An Evolution

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tew...

Gul Chotrani: Leica Talk

Photo © Gul Chotrani-All Rights Reserved Gul Chotrani was just featured in an interview on The Leica Camera Blog , following his return from...

Russia By Rail via NPR

Photo © David Gilkey- Courtesy NPR I rarely post on Russia! On the map that shows where The Travel Photographer blog readership comes from, ...

Kolkata: Book In Progress

Photos © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved A few weeks ago, I featured a poll in which I asked my readers to choose which photograph I oug...

Kalachakra via The Big Picture

Photo © Altaf Qadri/AP-All Rights Reserved Damn! Why haven't I been to Bodh Gaya?!!! Afer seeing these wonderful photographs of the Budd...

Anthony Pond: On Yangon's Wharf

Here's an audio slideshow of black & white stills by Anthony Pond on the porters at Yangon's wharf. It's his first attempt ...

Mitchell Kanashkevich: Orthodox Christmas In Lalibela

Photo © Mitchell Kanashkevich: All Rights Reserved   "Lalibela is Ethiopia’s answer to Jerusalem." Most of my readers will know wh...

POV: The "Leica" Marketing Of The Fuji X100

You'd think there's no world recession! Fujifilm is emulating long standing Leica's marketing tactics by introducing the Black F...

The Oracles Of Kerala Photo Workshop: Preparations

Well, the final touches on The Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition/Workshop™ are being done, and with some of the participants having booked...

Amy Helene Johansson: 88 1/2

I'm extremely pleased to feature Amy Helene Johansson's evocative new work titled 88 1/2 ; a 5 minutes film which revolves around Ja...

Agata Pietron: War Songs (Part 1)

Here's the powerful, technically well-made and intelligent multimedia work by the talented Agata Pietron .  It's about teenagers who...

Fuji X Pro-1: Hands On Previews

Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of a hands on review of the new Fuji X Pro-1.

Jelle Oostrom: Morocco

Photo © Jelle Oostrom-All Rights Reserved Jelle Oostrom is a travel writer and photographer based in the Netherlands, and has interesting p...

The Trams Of Kolkata

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved (Click To Enlarge) On the penultimate day of the Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Wor...

Taylor Weidman: Mustang

Photo © Taylor Weidman-All Rights Reserved "Mustang is arguably the best-preserved example of traditional Tibetan life left in the worl...

POV: Fuji X1-Pro1: Is It A Threat To Leica?

The blogosphere is abuzz with the news that FujiFilm will be launching a new mirrorless camera soon, and its tech details were published in...

POV: Street Photography In Old Delhi

The Quizzical Guy. Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights  Reserve d The Coco Seller. Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved The Don't Ph...

Brazil's ArcaPress Collective

I usually don't mention photographers collective on this blog, but I found that ArcaPress (started in May of 2010) which highlights Bra...

POV: iPhone's Google Translate As A Fixer?

I recently jumped ship from Blackberry to iPhone, and was glad to see how its various photography apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic wer...

POV: TIME's Lightbox 365 Photographs

Photo © Amr Abdallah Dalsh/ (Reuters) LightBox , the blog by TIME’s photo department, is one of my daily photography pilgrimage stops, and i...

A 2012 Welcome

Photo © Amit Dave/Reuters- All Rights Reserved Rather than featuring a photograph of fireworks or of New York City's Times Square crowds...