Photography: Destinations & Places

Travel photography guides covering best vantage points, golden-hour timing, drone rules, and camera-bag essentials for photographers chasing serious shots abroad.

  • Blue City of Chefchaouen, Morocco

    Chefchaouen

    Chefchaouen moves slower than the rest of Morocco — the blue walls, the mountain air, the goat cheese. That pace is the whole point.

  • Aerial panorama of Sedona's iconic red rock formations and townscape landscape.

    Sedona

    Sedona’s red rocks hit differently at golden hour — but the vortex sites are where most visitors lose track of time entirely.

  • A white horse on a trail ride in Flagstaff, Arizona

    Flagstaff

    Flagstaff sits at 7,000 feet, which means cooler summers than Phoenix and real snow in winter — a completely different Arizona than most people picture.

  • Railway in Burgundy, France

    Burgundy

    Burgundy’s wine route costs nothing to drive and the villages along it — Pommard, Meursault, Gevrey — are reason enough to slow down.

  • Expansive Alaska tundra near Denali National Park with distant mountains and serene waters

    Alaska

    Denali isn’t just North America’s tallest peak — it reframes everything you thought you knew about scale and wilderness.

  • Aerial view of Gardiner, Montana - Northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park

    Montana

    Going-to-the-Sun Road alone justifies the trip — 50 miles of 1932 engineering cutting through the Continental Divide at 6,646 feet.

  • Blausea lake, Switzerland

    Lauterbrunnen

    Trümmelbach Falls is carved inside the mountain itself — ten glacier-fed cascades most visitors walk right past on their way to Jungfraujoch.

  • Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Sunset

    Rhine Valley

    The Rhine Valley packs castles, vineyards, and medieval villages into one river corridor — boat or bike, the views hold up either way.

  • Bronze sculpture of a family by Ivan Meštrović at Meštrović Gallery, Split, Croatia

    Sibenik

    Sibenik’s Cathedral of St. James was built without mortar — just interlocking stone. That detail alone tells you what kind of city this is.

  • Toledo Cityscape and Skyline

    Toledo

    Toledo was Spain’s capital before Madrid — the cathedral, the Alcázar, and three religions’ worth of architecture packed into one hilltop.

  • Globe at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida

    Ios

    Ios has a party reputation that overshadows everything else — Homer’s tomb, Manganari beach, and tavernas in the Old Port worth your whole afternoon.

  • Trolltunga Cliff and Fjord View Norway

    Norway

    Sognefjord alone justifies the flight. But Norway’s real hook is how easy it is to move between Arctic wilderness and a functional, walkable city.

  • Lucca

    Lucca’s Renaissance walls are still intact — all 4km of them, tree-lined and walkable. Most of Tuscany tore theirs down.

  • Aerial view of Belvedere Brașov, Romania

    Brașov

    The Black Church alone justifies the detour — largest Gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul, sitting quietly in a square most tourists rush through.

  • North Dakota Heritage Center exterior

    North Dakota

    North Dakota’s night sky alone is worth the detour. Add the Badlands, Teddy Roosevelt’s park, and trails Lewis & Clark once walked.

  • Arizona Museum of Natural History

    Arizona

    The Grand Canyon gets all the attention, but Sedona’s red rocks and Canyon de Chelly hit differently — and the crowds thin out fast.

  • new-hampshire destination image

    New Hampshire

    New Hampshire packs more into a long weekend than most states manage in a week — fall foliage, White Mountain summits, and a seacoast that actually delivers.

  • Beach Chairs at Kamari Beach Santorini, Greece

    Santorini

    Oia’s sunset crowd arrives 2 hours early. Skip it — Imerovigli has the same caldera view with half the people.

  • Best Things to Do in Bonn

    Bonn

    Beethoven’s actual birthplace sits at Bonngasse 20 — a rare 18th-century survivor holding 1,000+ exhibits, including the hearing aids.

  • Front of Sonoma Valley Museum of Art building in Sonoma, California

    Sonoma Valley

    Napa gets the headlines, but Sonoma is where winemakers actually want to drink. The tasting rooms are smaller, the pours are more generous, and nobody is rushing you out.