The Photographing Tourist: A Storyteller's Guide to Travel and Photography

by David F. Noyes

Winner of 18 international awards. Beautifully illustrated with more than 300 photographs from around the world, and featuring twelve magazine-style travel narratives, The Photographing Tourist takes you on a journey to remote corners of our fascinating world. Filled with stories about isolated cultures, exploring local life, and challenging personal adventures, this storytellers guide to travel and photography reads like an eight-month collection of your favorite travel magazine. From environmental portraits and local lifestyles, to landmarks and sacred places, the chapters explore different photographic subjects that a tourist photographer will encounter. Sprinkled throughout the book are also technical shorts with valuable information on elements of design, composition, depth of filed, exposure, using lines, and developing a point of view. You will learn to think differently about travel and photography and to investigate a destination as part of the human condition. Above all, this book will encourage you to truly cherish your chance encounters as you photograph the world.

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 25, 2015

Reviews

[Adrianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I grew up in front of a lens. I’m nobody famous except to my father who loved to take pictures. He always had a 35mm around his neck with a bag of film and lenses, plus a 8mm movie camera in his hand. He armed me with a Brownie snapshot camera so he could teach and share his passion. My father would sit for hours reviewing and choosing slides for his Camera Club “Photo-Essay” competitions. He’d watch, then review and splice his movies into film stories. Dad would so have appreciated The Photographing Tourist, A Storyteller’s Guide to Travel and Photography, and identified with its author David Noyes through their love of photography.

But journalist David Noyes takes the idea of photo-essays to a whole new level by gifting us with this book full of wonderful stories that accompany and illuminate his photography. As tourists we document our travels in pictures and often share them silently with intimates and our broader Internet family. When we read Noyes' Field Notes we experience storytelling and how it augments photography and grounds pictures in reality while sparking our emotions and imagination. Noyes also shares his keen photography knowledge by providing guidance in a sprinkling of Technical Shorts throughout the book. He demonstrates the power of story by his writing and the impact the combination has to our senses.

From his travels around the globe, Noyes presents his unique views into Local Lifestyles, and Indigenous Tourism and Environmental Portraits. He dedicates a chapter to Spiritual Worlds and Sacred Places and reminds us as tourists to be aware of our place in and among the devout. He councils us how to mingle with large groups of tourists when visiting Landmarks and Famous Places and still take great photos. He weaves storytelling with his outstanding photography throughout the book as he temps us into Nature and on Grand Adventures.

Today with our camera-phones we can constantly capture and tell our stories in pictures—photos and videos—with are all kinds of Apps and software to enhance our pics. Some of us will invest in a SLR camera to have more control as we shoot to augment our professions and document our lives. As you read this book I bet you will be inspired, not only to travel the world, but to make picture-stories that are less random and more spectacular—in fact, I’m sure of it. Gift this book to anyone with wanderlust, and to those who love photography with all its nuance and storytelling potential.

Learn more about David Noyes at his website www.noyestravels.com and his U.S. based nonprofit Innocent Eyes Project that supports child education programs in the developing world.

[Jessie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you love to take photos when you travel? Do you wonder about how to take great photos - both in terms of technique and how to tell a story? It's hard to find advice from an expert (unlike travel guides, right?) that combine photography and storytelling. Enter David Noyes, and his excellent new book, The Photographing Tourist: A Storyteller's Guide to Travel and Photography.

Read our author interview here: https://www.wanderingeducators.com/be...

[Ken Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

A signed copy lent to me by my neighbor, the photos are brilliant but the narrative is awesome. Combining guides for better tourism pictures with well written tales of both professional and personal travels, I didn't get the feeling of "it has to be done this way" but rather that luck, location and plugging along are his suggestions. I was prompted to pull out some of my own shots to see how well I was doing and how I might do better. I think the best suggestions might involve the golden times, which I will try.