Travel Blogging vs Travel Writing

Gary Arndt, a well known travel blogger and prolific traveller muses about what he would pick if it ever comes to choosing between writing for NY Times of writing for his blog. He makes a very convincing argument about titlting towards his blog, and while he is at it, shares his thoughts about travel writing in print media and its future.

A writer will probably have a much larger audience for their work than a blogger, but that is due to the circulation of the magazine/newspaper not because of anything to do with the writer. If a writer is fired from a publication, their audience will probably not follow them somewhere else because they were never following them in the first place…and probably will have no idea they were even fired.

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Grass and the Tree..

Somewhere near Shimla..

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Travel Photography: Photographing Mountains

In September, I gave a 30-minute presentation on Photographing mountainscapes at Club Mahindra Whispering Pines Resort at Mashobra near Shimla. The audience included the winners and jury of Club Mahindra My Trip of a Lifetime travelogue contest.

In this presentation, I took some images from my archives and spoke about a single feature in the image that made me take the picture, or a feature that stood out in the image. Below are the slides of the presentation.

Photographing Mountains