Snapixel Magazine Issue 4: Travel Photography

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THEME: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY 06Snapixels personal travel collection

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER 36Mauro Sanna seeks out the ordinary moments

Contents:

THIS ISSUE TRAVEL PHOTOG RAPHY

BOB KRIST INTERVIEW 42Renowned travel photographerteaches Snapixel a ew lessons

44 THE NEW BOHEMIAThe Snapixel team goes on a mission in The Mission

50 VINTAGE SHOTSSee photography like it was be ore thedigital age

49 UPCOMING THEMEGet ready to submit or our next issue!

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I you look closely, you will recognize

some changes in our magazine orthis issue. In addition to the stunningbatch o user submitted photographs, wehave included more images, stories, andinterviews than ever be ore.

Travel Photography is one o those artisticgenres that is simultaneously accessible toevery body yet is (literally, by distance) so arout o reach. The possibilities are endless. Inthis issue, our photographers explore di erentsubjects, capture di erent moods, use di er-

ent colors, and employ di erent methods todiscover what is new and unique to them. Wehope that the issue inspires you not only to takeout your camera, but to explore the world!

Cheers,

The Snapixel Team

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KEVIN THORNHILL PRIDE OF RAJASTHAN

This image was taken when visiting the city palace in the pink city o Jaipur. I saw this gentlemansitting to the le t o this amazing door and kindly gestured to him to ask i I could take hisphotograph in ront o it. He gladly obliged and posed without any urther prompting.

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KEITH SANDERS BLUES OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS

Seeing Rome through the eyes o a lens, versus those o a tourist, has its advantages anddisadvantages. The main disadvantage? Becoming lost because youre not watching where

you are going, as you walk through the narrow stone paved roads rom one iconic and historiclandmark to another. But sometimes what is viewed as a disadvantage reveals itsel as an

opportunity. Stumbling upon the Castle St. Angelo revealed itsel not only as a wonder ulphotograph, but a location marker as well - it sits directly across rom the Vatican.



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LAWRENCE DORTCH LATE NIGHT NOO

The backpackers district in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam is always bustling, but not with backpackingtourists. It is a great place to get some authentic Vietnamese cuisine. Street vendors like this 24-hour noodle

stand sell bowls o noodles, and Pho soup. Ho Chi Minh city is a great place or street photography. Youcan see anything rom a sh vendor selling dried shrimp curbside, to a amily o our riding on a single 125 c

motorcycle, as com ortable as an American amily would be riding in a our door sedan. This images is aexample o why you should always have a camera with you and ready to shoot. A ter dancing the night awayat a local disco, my wi e and I were looking or something more than what the hotel mini bar had to o er, swe hit the street and ound this little noodle stand. I had my Canon G9 in the pocket o my cargo pants so I

quickly captured the im

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DAM OLIVER SWIMMING EELS

ot this with a Canon point and shoot camera as I was walking down the street in Osaka, Japan, tryingcapture the eels. Instead, the glare and signs around the window created an interesting collage.

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BORA BAYSAL PICCADILLY CIRCUS PANORAMA

This photograph is a series o 22 images stitched together, depicting Christmas Time in London, England.Piccadilly Circus is a major attraction point where people meet and spend time at any time o day- at night it

eatures dazzling neon lights which are very attractive or night photographers. The stitched panoramic imagehas been tonemapped, orming a surreal impression o this dynamic junction o Londoners.



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DAVID GUILLERMO ESCALANTE TRINIDAD AURA DE FE (GLOWING FAITH)

Valladolid, Yucatn. Mexico. This picture was taken during in og a ter a day ull o rain. It was a very impressive environment, given that it isvery unusual to see that quantity o og in the air. I consider mysel very luck to have had my camera and tripod at the time


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DANIEL ISRAELYAN LOCKED FOREVER

Two lovers lock their love or each other with a padlock and throw both keys into the river. Thepadlocks will eventually be cut down by the French authorities. De eats the purpose? I think not.



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NICK NEWTON WILLIAMSMORNING LIGHT BEAUMARIS

It was February 2010 and a reallycold stormy night, I was staying ina hotel in Beaumaris on Anglesey,North Wales on my way up to the

mountains. The room was over-looking the Strait with a aint view

between squalls over the watertowards Snowdonia. When I woke

up the next morning the storm wasgone and the early light was so t,

the water refected the clouds likea mirror. So I grabbed by 1D witha 24-70 and spent an hour on the

waterside under the old jetties andbreakwaters trying to capture thesky and clouds. This shot was my

avorite, ramed by the seaweedcovered Victorian wooden jetty,covered with discarded shing

lines and ropes. I kept the lensside, tried to maximise depth o

eld and ocus and cranked upthe ISO. I ended up using split

metering to get the right balancerom the sky, water, and still keep

the silhouette rom underneath the jetty.

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JONATHAN RICHARD GREEN PENGUINS AND ICE

Gentoo penguins nesting at the rookery o Joul-ga Point, Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Ihave been working the austral summer seasonor the last seven years in the Antarctic and thisremains one o my avorite areas. The Seven

Sister o Fie make a truly spectacular backdropto the rookery, and on this particular a ternoon,

snow laden storm clouds were building over themountains. The black and white o the penguins

and surrounding landscape contrasted brightly

with the pinkish red guano that covers the rocksand the pebble stone nests o the Gentoos. Icaptured the shot in bright sunlight, but minutes

later the earsome Katabatic winds began tohowl and the rst furries o snow ell. The tem-

perature plummeted and I was quickly remindedthat this seemingly benign setting is home tosome o the worst weather on earth. The visitwas all the more memorable as my amily had joined me or the rst time to Antarctica andmy children having grown up in the tropics o

Ecuador, had never seen snow all rom the skybe ore. My son was ve at the time, not much

taller than the penguins, and silenced in awe bythis journey to the end o the Earth.


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KJERSTI JRGENSEN CRYSTAL CLEAR WAT

A very riendly nurse shark was swimming around us or at least 15minutes while we were snorkeling on Grand Cayman

RANDI SCOTT WALL OF WATER

Section o Albion Falls in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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JIM HARRIS BEAUTIFUL ABANDONMENT

During a walk in the outlying areas o downtown Tuscan,Arizona, I came across several old, abandoned buildings.

These old buildings have been part o Tuscans heritage oryears, as can clearly been seen in its repair. This one struck

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PRAJIT RAVINDRAN NATURES PALETTE: RIOT OF COL

During the labor day long weekend last year, a couple o riends joined me to plan a trip to Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. On the secondday o our trip we embarked on a road trip rom Las Vegas to Grand Canyon Village. Our rst stop was at Hoover Dam- we were amazed at

the engineering marvel it is. Like the others, I grabbed a ew quick shots o the dam. I was not that impressed with the background so I

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ned around to look or other photo opps. I then saw this beauti ul light just hitting the peaks o the mountains. I quickly ran to the other side andbbed 3 quick handheld bracketed shots. I knew it would be di cult to capture the dynamic range o the scene in a single image. So I created a HDRage using Photomatix. I was happy with the result since I pre er a realistic appearance to HDR images.



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CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS03 JESSICA ALBRO 06 KEITH SANDERS 08 KEVIN THORNHILL 10 LAWRENCE DORTCH 11 ADAM OL

/photosbyjes /sanders0906 /kbtimages /blkphoto /hoverkra t

21 NICK NEWTON WILLIAMS 22 ED COREY 23 XIAO ZHANG 24 JONATHAN GREEN 26 RANDI SCOT/nicko /edcorey /vitroz83 /juanverde /brant ordselectio

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12 BORA BAYSAL 14 DAVID ESCALANTE 17 DANIEL ISRAELYAN 18 CHERYL MCDONALD/borabaysal /davirus /bigpisces /cherylmcdonald

27 KJERSTI JRGENSEN 28 MARY BETH CHARLES 30 JIM HARRIS 32 PRAJIT RAVINDRAN/kjorgen /marybethcharles /jmartinharris /prajitr


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MAURO SANNAThis months eatured photographer takes pictures o people. Such as, o course, the picture eaturedon this page: The Sad Man, taken in Pisa. The photographer explains, he was a mime artist, restingwith his dog at lunch time. Windy dreamy man, this months cover shot, was taken on a carnival dayduring February in Florence. Like these, many o Sannas photographs are strange and o ten ethereal,using muted colors and hazy light to create otherworldly portraits o ambiguous subjects. Its hardto know whats really going on in any o these pictures, but nonetheless, you are drawn to them. Onthe ollowing pages we present you with more o Sannas work, accompanied by quotes on how thisphotographer cra ts his images.


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I use a Canon Canonet ET QL17 GIII, a Zorki 4, an EOS 50E and 3My pre erred lenses are the sigma 30mm 1.4 (its great or street phtography), the canon 50 mm 1.8 MKI, and the canon 24-70 2.8 (

quite heavy, but the quality o images is worth it.) I dont like ustelephoto, because it makes me eel like a thie


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auro was born in Sardinia, and now lives in Pisa to attend the University.ow age 26, he discovered photography three years ago.

ee more o Sannas work at his Snapixel port olio: http://www.snapixel.com/port olio/ubuntolaio


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Im really interestedn street photography.m always looking or

ontaneous people, invery moment o their

e. Not extraordinarymoments, but just

ose normal, commontimes that make li einteresting and

ascinating: the ace o a girl le t by her

oy riend, the eyes o kid scared by a dog,

satisfed man with hisigar, two chatting olddies in a small town.


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BOBGIVES US HIS PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY ON HOW TO KEEP ON TOP OF YOURGAME, BOTH ABROAD AND AT HOME

RENOWNED TRAVELPHOTOGRAPHER

BECOMING ABETTERPHOTOGRAPHER

Interview by Kaitlyn Ellison P hotographer Bob Krist certainlyhas experience. Working as a pho-tographer or over 30 years, he hastraveled the world photographing

or major publications like NationalGeographic, National GeographicTraveler, and the Smithsonian. Hehas numerous awards to his name,including Travel Photographer o the Year three times rom the Soci-ety o American Travel Writers. Hehas published many photographyand instructional books, and haseven had one eatured on the New

York Times best-seller list. Soundsintimidating? I agree.

Despite all o this success, Krist has

managed to keep a cool head and awitty sense o humor. He has creat-ed YouTube videos with some o his

ellow pro essional photographers(de nitely check out Joe McNallysCon essions with Father Krist), andblogs about the everyday rewardsand hassles o photographing pro-

essionally (www.bobkrist.com/blog). And he teaches, using hisextensive experience to help other

photographers create better work.In my interview with him, Krist let mein on some o his methods, and herethey are to help our readers discoverhow to navigate the dangers and di -

culties o travel photography, as wellas how to improve our photographyskills through practice at home.

I suspect that one o the most o tenquestions asked o the photogra-pher is an inquiry into the most thrill-ing moments o his work: What arethe most dangerous things that havehappened to you over the years? Itwas indeed my rst request o thephotographer tales o danger andintrigue! And Krist certainly com-plied, with stories o being stranded

in a snowcat during a whiteout orthree days on assignment or Nation-al Geographic in Iceland, and thetime when he was shooting a Shan-go Voodoo ceremony in Trinidadand was very nearly attacked by oneo the ceremonys machete-wieldingtrance-bound participants. But Kristdoesnt leave it at that - what can welearn rom these experiences o his?

Krist claims being a travel photog-rapher means having to escape yournormal circle o com ort. Events oc-cur all around you. Things begin tohappen, they snowball, then buildinto tense situations. Krist preachessituational awareness, an ability toread the street and the nonverbalclues surrounding you. Like whenthe photographer ound himsel in

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Bangkok during the recent red shirtprotests. At rst he claims thereseemed to be no hint o the orth-coming hostility, almost as i the redshirts and policemen were having apicnic. It ended up in violence, riots,and shooting.

At the end o the day these ad-ventures end up as great dinner (orinterview, or that matter) conversa-tion, according to Krist, but at thetime when you dont know what isgoing to happen, certain situationsare not so un. I joke that perhapsthis travel photography is or adrena-line junkies, asking the photographeri that is one o his major enticementsinto this career, but he laughs and re-sponds with a hearty NO, claimingmore o a similarity to Clark Kent thanthe adrenaline-rushed rock climb-ing Superman adventure photogra-phers one sometimes comes across.He just love[s] to experience newcultures.

A side rom an ability to read thesituation going on around you in thestreet, there are many other skillsone needs to hone in order to takeunique pictures abroad. One o thegreatest challenges is communica-tion. How do you create a connec-tion with a subject when you cant di-rectly speak to them? Here are sometricks and tips I got rom Krist: First,learn a ew phrases o the languageo the country you are traveling to.Make sure you ask permission andexplain what you are photograph-ing, let them know why you want totake their picture and make sure theyknow it isnt because you think theyare a curiosity. I you are an amateurphotographer, not on assignment

or a magazine or other publication,create a project or yoursel . Look toget something speci c out o the ex-perience, and it will become a richerone.

Another tip rom Krist is to get alocal translator. They can be oundthrough a tourist board, local uni-versity, and simply by being riendlyand trying to talk to people. Some-times, the photographer claims, ora lunch and a beer they are happy

to help you out or a day. The keyis to nd what the pro essionals call xers street-smart guides whocan take you o o the beaten path.For example, when Krist was in Malta

or National Geographic, he oundthat the translators provided or himby the tourist board were too ormaland went in search o another. Want-

ing to take pictures o a shipyardand longshoremen, but providedwith guides who were intellectualsall with PhDs, the photographeropted to be guided instead by a po-liceman he met on the street. Thiswell-connected o cer knew all sortso people, and brought the photog-rapher to community events, a rstcommunion among others, givingKrist an outlet to shoot beauti ul andinteresting photographs.

A nother way to improve your trav-el photography? Shoot locally, o course. One o the topics I oundthe photographer to be most pas-sionate about was the importanceo shooting the local. Bob Krist gothis start working or National Geo-graphic shooting an article on hishome state o New Jersey, an assign-ment that no one else would take.Over the years, he has continued to

nd inspiration in his surroundingcommunities, one o the most recentbeing his project to photograph hishometown New Hope, Pennsylvania.A community portrait project eatur-ing the color ul people that inhabithis own space, the project has givenKrist a chance to expand the rangeo his photography and shoot an en-tire project in a portrait studio or the

rst time.

Krist nds that projects like thesehelp him exercise his eye as a pho-

tographer. Finding ways to makethe amiliar look resh and excitingmakes you better at your cra t. Inexotic locations, Krist claims pic-tures practically jump into the cam-era. You have to be hal -blind notto capture something interesting inThailand, India, Burma. The li e andstreet is chaotic.

In oreign lands it is easy just to

shoot what you see, relying on exoti-cism to make the pictures interest-ing. According to the photographer,in the 1970s, 80s, and even 90s justtraveling around the world and tak-ing mediocre pictures was enoughto make you a travel photographer,but now that so many people canget almost anywhere, travel photog-

raphy has to be taken to another,more thought-through, level. Kristexplains in metaphor: Di erent typeso photographs and locations arelike di erent courses o dinner. Indiais like the dessert sweet and easy todigest, but in the end, too much o itmakes you fabby.

A nd the nal lesson rom Krist? Iasked him what he does or his ownvacations, a ter being gone or 6-8months out o the year shootingpro essionally: He just goes to theJersey Shore, chills out on the beach,and leaves his camera at home.Sometimes, thats just ne.

Where Has BobBeen?

AFRICA South A rica

ASIA/PACIFICHong Kong Indonesia JapanMalaysia N ew ZealandPapua New Guinea Singapore

CARIBBEAN/LATIN AMERICA Aruba Bahamas BarbedosBelize Bermuda Costa RicaCuba Grenada HaitiJamaica Mexico Puerto RicoSt. Lucia Tobago Trinidad

EUROPE

Austria Denmark EnglandFrance Germany HollandIceland Ireland Italy MaltaNorway Spain Sweden

UNITED STATES Alaska Atlantic City AtlantaDeath Valley Hawaii FloridaKeys Las Vegas New JerseyShore New Orleans TheOzarks Philadelphia Utah


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THE NEW

BOHEMIATHE COLORFUL CHARACTERS OF THE MISSION


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It is impossible or a visit to SanFrancisco to be boring or ordinary: acelebration or community gathering o some kind on every imaginable scaleis nearly a weekly occurrence. The Cityboasts a myriad o attractions. Liter-ally, there is something or everyonein the intricate network o districts andneighborhoods. Some proudly displaytourist hot spots, such as AshburyHeights amous intersection at Haightand Ashbury. Other slices o er some-thing more, o the beaten path thatshowcases the vibrant culture on whichthis city was ounded. The real SanFrancisco, as it was. So it goes with theMission district, a color ul collection o streets to the southeast o downtown.A sunny and vivacious neighborhood,the Mission district in this town isthe epitome o a modern symbioticrelationship. Shops and murals andrestaurants are as eclectic as theirhuman counterparts, and both blendbeauti ully man and man-made.

CAPTURING THE VIBRANCEOF THE MISSION BY LINDSAY FERGUSONPHOTOGRAPHY BY KAITLYNELLISON


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Three main arter-ies give li e to thisareabusy boulevardsconstantly fow withstreet and oot tra cday and night. Guerrer

Valencia and Missionhave much to o er,and the depth o eachstreet can take up anentire day just explorinand experiencing. Fewplaces in San Francisco er such an array orestaurants and shops.Dig deeper and eventhe casual traveler willbegin to notice artworkin every available cornand on every openspace. Posters and fyerannounce per ormancart. Culinary art takes

place every moment atDel na Pizzeria or Tartine Bakery. Musicianspepper the parks, likeDolores, on any giventime. Painters and mu-ralists have also takenup residence here, cre-ating expansive workso art on every buildinedi ce. The Latin Amcan culture is so enlighening to the people

who live in the Missiothat it is refected andincorporated into nearleverything. The Wom-ens Building on 18thstreet is one particularl

amous mural that hasenveloped the entirebuilding. Spray paint-ers have also joined thmuralists and paintersto create a more edgy,urban eel to particulacorners o the Mission

Art o ten imitatesli e, and one cant helbut notice the in usiono human experienceand behavior subtly nuanced within the muraand gra ti art. Thepeople are, o ten timemore color ul than thepainted counterparts.


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My grandmother has travelled more than Homer, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus combined. Shesclimbed glaciers and sat on the backs o East Indian elephant. She brought me to my rst international visitwhen I was 9 years-old: Mexico City. Several years ago, a ter living in her Colorado Springs home or 25 years,my grandmothers deteriorating memory led to her relocation in an assisted living community 50 miles to thenorth. Shortly a terwards my mother and I travelled to her three-bedroom, two-story home to si t through theremnants o her ormerly independent li e. It was an emotional experience or me as my grandmothers home

The Podies at Zaton Valiki (Croatia), April 1972

Inn Valley, 1967

Nascher at the market, September 1972

Corinth Canal (Greece), 1967


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View rom Philopappos Hill (Greece), 1967

Hoher Dachstein Mountain (Austria)

has always been a place o re uge, a steady, amiliar place I travelled to with regularity as my own li e changed invarious ways. One o the most pro ound moments was discovering an old suitcase ull o black & white photo-graphs in a basement closet. Many o the people depicted in them were un amiliar to me. Then the realizationhit me: in about one hundred years my own precious photographs and other memorabilia might sit in a suitcaseor box in a basement to be discovered by a yet-to-be-born amily member who will have a similar curious reac-tion: Who are these people? In other words, the meaning is in mind o the beholder.

-Damien Ra a

Plaine Morte (Switzerland)

The Kilgores, 1972


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