So, I’m not sharing these ideas as a hotshot shutterbug (I’m not!) but as a road-tripper who’s learned a few lessons while doing this for the past seven years. I've learned quite a few lessons in that time, so I thought I'd share the seven most important ones with my readers. Over the past seven years, I've take dozens of road trips, short and long, to shoot photos for eight different books. But I’m not a trained photographer: I learned mostly through trial and error. I qualify as a professional photographer, technically speaking, because I’ve gotten paid for the pictures I take - both by newspapers and for the books I’ve written. It involved the same steps, and it occurred to me that, since it was so much fun and so successful, I’d share them here. In the end, it wasn’t much different than other trips I’ve taken. Heck, there were times when I just drove into a parking lot or stopped by the side of the road and snapped a few quick pics without even leaving the driver’s seat. On a photo trip, all you have to do is pull off to the side of the road, look for a few good angles, shoot your shot, and get back in the car. (When I came across anyone, I wore a mask.) This kind of road trip was actually perfect, because I wouldn’t be in contact with many people: I wasn’t visiting anyone or going to any big events, and with a couple of minor exceptions, my only points of direct contact were at hotel check-ins counters, gas pumps, and drive-throughs. I took hundreds of pictures, many of which appear in the book, and I had a great time exploring the region - even more so because hadn’t been able to travel for about a year, because of the pandemic.īut I got both my vaccine shots in February, and I decided it was time to hit the road. I recently returned from a road trip to take photographs for my latest book, Highways of the South, and I had a blast.
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