The Travel Photographer Dot Com is an e-magazine with a unique purpose— the care and feeding of Americanus Adventurus Photographerus. That special breed born with a genetic disposition to combine “travel + photography” into a reason for being, similar to the more familiar, and accepted by society, “vacation + fishing.”

We are not talking recording a two-shot in front of a sign, here, though we plan on running articles that will help the snapshot taker to advance to new levels. Along with advice on where to complete the path: I came > I photographed > I shared my visions with the world.

We are not developing this publication to be an online version of mail order photo equipment catalogs people actually buy at a newsstand.

To us, lenses, film (or flash cards), tripods, are tools. We love our tools. Call them toys if you want, as we have great fun playing with all the new gismos available. So when you run across a mention of a camera being used on assignment, as exploring Fiji with a _ _ _ _ _ _ , even if that article happens to be funded in the
Public Broadcasting Service “sponsored in part” style, trust that your readership has not been violated.

It is our feeling that using the dollars saved not paying the ever-increasing expenses “dead tree” publishers have, per photo, printing four-color pictures, we can indeed focus on the actual, hyper linked, what you see is what you get, benefits using a ‘sponsored’ piece of equipment in the field. It is our hope to attract win-win information age companies who know that the only effective marketing today is where the consumer seeks out content needed to make a purchase decision.

What out-an-out advertising we will be running—to help pay for your ‘free’ subscription— following articles that have relevant content shall be qualified as ‘resources,’ where the reader will be invited to click through for more information.

A good example of such as non-camera equipment resource (read travel ad) is Rainbow Mountain Adventures sponsorship of a piece done for a sister publication, — AlaskaTravelMagazine.com. This Alaskan tour company, we feel, offers independent travel photographers the opportunity to really take home their experiences from a unique point of view. No herd mentality, “and on your left we have” tour bus itineraries, here.

The article(?), a virtual tour of Denali National Park, is being networked here with a lead-in explaining that the use of travel photography is changing. No media employing photography as, newspapers, brochures, magazines, coffee table books, will have the impact on the livelihood of travel photographers, as the web.

Interest in the development of travel photography on the web compels us to be an experimenter in format. We cannot imagine a photographer online without a graphic compatible computer, so the limits imposed trying to reach Grandpaw Fudley, or squinty-eyed bean counters making do with 13” monitors, don’t apply here. We also know that photographers are explorers, so please use our “comments and submissions” button to help us break loose from web programmers who have laid down stupid ‘techy’ rules about photo size, the number per page, etc.

We have other plans to attract you as a reader to this niche publication. To follow it all, I suggest you become a subscriber, which —at this time— requires nothing more than clicking to enter, and hopefully, bookmarking us as a favorite site.

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