How to create a stock photo shoot list

“What are we supposed to be shooting, here?” I was dumbfounded when an attendee on our recent photo expedition to Abu Dhabi asked this question in the middle of a colorful spice market. In a place so unlike home, with soaring white domes topped in gold, with gangly...

Hot Stock Photography Trends

The most successful stock photographers are the ones who stay up on current trends and are able to predict the types of images photo buyers are looking for. But short of getting out a crystal ball and peering into the future, how do you really know what will sell?...

Abu Dhabi Photo Expedition: Arabian Desert photos

If you ever get a chance to spend the night in the middle of the Arabian Desert, don’t forget to bring your toothbrush…and your tripod… and your ball gown if you plan on taking some Arabian Desert photos. Bonnie here, on Day Three of our Abu Dhabi Photo Expedition....

Travel photography tip : Take photos of the details

Waiting to board the elevator to the top of the Burj Khalifa — the tallest building in the world — we watched in awe as numbers flashed over the doors. 72… 73… 74… Taking an elevator here is an experience. As it breezes past each floor,...

Cool camera trick: make fences disappear

In the summer, you can ride a camel through the hot oven of the Arabian Desert for an entire month before it needs to stop for water. And in the winter, a camel can go three months without stopping for a drink. No wonder they call them the “ships of the desert.”...

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