Lonely Planet blog Category: photography

Capture the City Photo Competition: the winner

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

When we launched the Capture the City photo competition, we weren’t sure how travellers would respond. After sorting through over 2500 beautiful entries we now know the answer: everyone who entered aimed to make our job of picking a winner as difficult as possible. There just were too many great photos to get our heads…

Continue reading 'Capture the City Photo Competition: the winner' Comments (6)

Sunrise, sunset: city photos at the golden hour

Chelsea Garecht Lonely Planet author

In travel photography, light can either be your best friend or a horribly mismatched travel companion. The way the light enters and consumes the scene can either enhance or diminish the destination’s beauty. The best travel photographers know how to spot and utilize the ‘right light’, making their photos leap off the page and irresistible…

Continue reading 'Sunrise, sunset: city photos at the golden hour' Comments (3)

Capture the City quiz: can you identify the city from the photo?

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

Many of the photos being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, even if they’re not perfect guidebook cover photos, are really hitting the nail on the head and capturing the essence of the city in the photograph. Photographers are taking different approaches to the challenge: some go for the macro-level wide view of…

Continue reading 'Capture the City quiz: can you identify the city from the photo?' Comments are closed

Capture the City: 5 of our favourite photos so far

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

Many beautiful photos are being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, where we’re looking for the photo that best captures the essence of a city and would be perfect for the cover of a Lonely Planet city or pocket city guidebook. It’s a tough challenge: great photos aren’t necessarily great guidebook cover photos.…

Continue reading 'Capture the City: 5 of our favourite photos so far' Comments (3)

Travel Adventures: our top 20 picks

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We asked you to send us your most daredevil pictures for our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition and you didn’t disappoint. We had over 500 submissions, ranging from rafting to roaring alongside tigers, but we have now managed to go through all of them and whittle them down to the last 20. From this selection, an…

Continue reading 'Travel Adventures: our top 20 picks' Comments (11)

Winter from your window: our top 20 picks

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

Lonely Planet’s Winter from your Window competition, where we encouraged our followers to submit pictures of what they could see from their windows via our Facebook page, closed recently. We have had a great response, with a total of 411 pictures submitted between the 16th and 31st of January. The standard of the competition was…

Continue reading 'Winter from your window: our top 20 picks' Comments (2)

Photos: Mysterious island dwellers

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

Islands in literature have long been used by authors to create an aura of mystery: The Odyssey, The Tempest, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Mysterious Island. This device has been used so persistently that it has become a predictable cliché in nearly every medium: if Prince Valiant washes up on an uncharted island after getting…

Continue reading 'Photos: Mysterious island dwellers' Comments (14)

Can you picture that?

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

One of the best parts of travelling is capturing the memories to share with those who couldn’t be there, making them all terribly envious in the process. It’s part of our nomadic narrative – proving we were there and prolonging the pleasure as we play it back for the people in our lives. Our community often share images with…

Continue reading 'Can you picture that?' Comments (6)

No photos here!

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

The portability and power of today’s cameras make it easy to snap a picture anywhere, anytime. The trouble is certain people and places have rules about what you can and can’t shoot. They can change at will and, as many travellers will have experienced firsthand, they’re not always well communicated. It’s a subject that crops…

Continue reading 'No photos here!' Comments (5)

Cemeteries around the world photo contest: the results

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

We asked to see your very best photographs from cemeteries around the world and you really dug up some great ones. It was a dead heat, but one photo arose as the winner of the ‘Cemeteries around the world’ photo contest.

Continue reading 'Cemeteries around the world photo contest: the results' Comments are closed