The Travel Photographer 2012 Most Popular Post

And the most popular post of 2012 on The Travel Photographer's blog is: POV: Fuji X1-Pro1: Is It A Threat To Leica?   in which I replied...

POV | Ersatz Wet Plate?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Ersatz  means "substituting for, and typically inferior in quality to", e.g. "chic...

Aga Luczakowska I Female Islambul

Photo © Aga Luczakowska-All Rights Reserved It was said that in the early 1930s Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (the first president of Turkey) though...

Frederic Vanwalleghem | Vodun

"Vodun practitioners worship a pantheon of gods and lesser deities that inhabit objects ranging from stones to waterfalls." Here...

Magdalena Solé | The Mississippi Delta

Photo © Magdalena Sole-All Rights Reserved "To understand the world, you must first understand  a place like Mississippi". William...

Happy Holidays!

All the very best Xmas wishes to my readers and blog followers  whether on Google, Facebook or Twitter! I will be back on December 26th.

The Travel Photographer's Own Favorites of 2012

With some difficulty, I've chosen five of my own favorite images made during 2012 to showcase here on my blog. Since I've just been ...

Chris McGrath | Thaipusam

Photo © Chris McGrath-All Rights Reserved I've posted about Thaipusam a few times already, but I never tire to view the varying angles a...

Devansh Jhaveri | TTP's Travel Photographer of 2012

Photo © Devansh Jhaveri- All Rights Reserved Well, you have spoken. And you have spoken well. Devansh Jhaveri has won the coveted title of ...

POV: Protect Your Instagram Images

I seldom use Instagram but I really can't believe the amount of media attention that has been given to Instagram's recent amendment ...

Ah! Kumbh Mela Time

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Quite a number of photographers, some friends and acquaintances, are gearing up to join the milli...

Kauser Haider | A Hall Full of Cinema

Photo © Kauser Haider-All Rights Reserved The Manoshi Cinema Hall in Old Dhaka is a 70+ year old crumbling old building with torn plaster wa...

2012's Four Most Popular Posts On Travel Photographers

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I thought I'd feature four of the most popular (ie viewed) posts of 2012 on The Travel Photog...

Elissa Bogos | The Last Jew In Afghanistan

Here's a short video documentary by Elissa Bogos on Zeblon Simontov, the last Jew in Afghanistan while he observes the fifth night of H...

POV: Street Photography & Mental Instantaneous Captioning

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I often wonder if my "mental instantaneous captioning" is shared by other street photog...

Reader' Poll: Who's The Travel Photographer of 2012?

To end 2012, I thought I'd feature a reader's poll to choose which of a pre-selected travel photographers whose work appeared on The...

"Beyond" Varanasi Documentary: Cale Glendening

For 12/12/12 (the so-called end of days or whatever it's called), I've featured the trailer (for those with limited time or a short...

8th Angkor Photo Festival: 2012 Prize Winner

Photo © Truth Leem-All Rights Reserved Angkor Photo Workshops announced its first prize winner last night in Siem Reap. "Island" ...

Out of Eden Walk: 30 Million Footsteps

A few posts ago I suggested there were no more explorers in the mold of Richard Francis Burton. I was wrong. An incredible exploration trek ...

Sebastião Salgado: The Nenets of Siberia

Photo © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas/nbpictures The new work by my very favorite photographer Sebastião Salgado was featured by The Guardian ...

Thomas Cristofoletti: Once Upon A Time In Burma

Photo © Thomas Cristofoletti-All Rights Reserved I thought I'd feature work of Myanmar (Burma) which is rapidly becoming the must-see de...

Jan Schlegel: Pain & Beauty Redux

Photo © Jan C. Schlegel-All Rights Reserved Oh, followers and readers of The Travel Photographer blog will like this! Ethnophotography, tra...

POV: The Subway Picture

Appalling and disgusting. How else can anyone describe this? The New York Post, known for its sensationalism, and one of the rags belonging ...

Ian Ruhter: The American Dream Project

If I'm to believe my blog's statistics, posts dealing with photographic alternative processes are hugely popular...as popular as co...

The Travel Photographer's Photo Expeditions

I thought it'd be good idea to have all my past and future photo expeditions-workshops aggregated in one location separate from my regul...

Reuters Full Focus' Best of 2012

Photo © Reuters/Rupak de Chowdhuri-All Rights Reserved Yes, like you I did a double take when I saw this photograph on Reuters Full Focus bl...