Travel Guides

It’s the perfect time of year to escape to Costa Rica and explore diverse wildlife and landscape photo opportunities

Photographing UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Exploring the dwellings and rock art of the Ancestral Puebloans

Our guide to a long weekend in America’s most iconic national park

Tips and insights on where to go inside some of our most popular national parks

Pro photographers share some of their favorite regional locations for extended weekend photo adventures

When OP columnist William Neill led a workshop to Antarctica, he created his own unique collection of images from a place that has become much more accessible for photography-oriented adventurers

For landscape photographers with a long winter weekend, here are some top spots in The Beehive State to get stunning, out-of-the-ordinary photos

Often maligned as “the Flyover States,” Tom Till shows us that the Midwest is rich with landscape photography opportunities, when you know where to look

In this installment of our ongoing series about trekking to Antarctica, Joshua Holko offers insight into packing and dressing for comfort and safety in an extreme environment

In autumn, the Northeast gets all of the glory, but the varied climates of the Northwest present some unique and distinctive fall color opportunities, as the Photo Cascadia team shows us

Seize the moment for great photos in extreme environments

An exploration of the national parks in the rugged and beautiful Baja Peninsula

In the first of a series of articles, we speak with photo expedition leader Joshua Holko about a journey to one of the last great frontiers on earth

After a number of massive weather-related changes reshaped this iconic location, Kerrick James reflects on the past and the future of Havasupai

Sounds of camera shutters announce the presence of newly mobile Chinese tourists in the cultural destinations that mark a time gone by in the Middle Kingdom

Exploring the area around Petrified Forest National Park, Larry Lindahl shows how this unique environment is a cornucopia for photographers

When I'm planning where to go next on a next photo trip, a festival is often the best reason to single out a destination from the many.

Beyond the dramatic wildlife, eastern Africa is also one of the richest tribal regions in the world. These unique cultures have drawn the attention of photographers since the medium’s beginnings.

Using photography as a conservation tool, Ralph Lee Hopkins tells the story of the Galápagos Islands