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Lisa Michele Burns

Hello! I'm the founder and photographer behind The Wandering Lens. With 17+yrs experience as a professional travel and landscape photographer, all advice found on this site is from my personal experience on the road. I hope it's useful for your own travels and would love to hear in the comments about your trips and experiences around the world.

12 Travel Photography Tips from a Professional Travel Photographer

Improve your Travel Photography – Get Creative and Photograph the World Travel photography offers a creative opportunity to document your adventures and capture the world around you. The places you visit, faces you see...

How to Land a Dream Assignment as a Travel Photographer

Do you want to work as a travel photographer? Imagine for a moment, your dream assignment as a photographer. Can you see yourself photographing an erupting volcano for National Geographic or capturing beach scenes...

A Photographer’s Guide to Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Photography Locations – Your curated list Tokyo is Japan’s bright shining star; a city of neon lights, towering skyscrapers, Japanese cuisine (yum!) and a culture that’s a magical blend of quirky and quaint....

Columbia Icefields – Hiking on the Athabasca Glacier with IceWalks

Photographing in the Columbia Icefields of Canada At first glistening crunch, I knew I was back in my happy place. Hearing the sound of ice crunching beneath my crampons, watching as the ice sparkled...

Stay in the Canadian Rockies – Basecamp Resorts

Hotels in Banff + Beyond – Where to stay in Canmore, cosy cabins and more… The Canadian Rockies conjure up visions of days spent hiking, photographing wildlife, canyons, alpine lakes, and epic scenery. If...

Glacier Lodge Eqi – Up Close with Greenland’s Calving Wonder

Glacier Lodge Eqi, Greenland Thunderous echoes of crashing ice ripple across the bay like a constant chorus of nature’s beat. Nothing can prepare you for the sound of a glacier calving. It’s a clap,...

What Cameras I Packed for Greenland

Photographing in Greenland – What to Pack Endless hours of sunshine shimmer along the coastline of Ilulissat in the summer months. A land of climatic extremes,historic adventures and a culture that’s as fascinating as...

Shooting in the Low Light Conditions of Polar Night

Photographing in Low Light: Polar Night + Arctic Wilderness Conditions can’t get any darker than dark and that’s what you’re faced with when photographing the landscapes of Lapland during the Polar Night period. It...

Photographing the Dunes of Sossusvlei + The Namib Desert

Photographing Deadvlei with Wilderness Safaris – Namibia Departing in darkness, a slight glow simmered on the horizon, a tiny hint of the magic soon to be revealed across the Namib Desert.  With Kulala Desert...

10 Places to Photograph Cherry Blossoms Around the World

Where + When to Photograph Cherry Blossoms Cherry blossoms are pink, floral puffs of perfection. Photographers flock to blossom filled parks around the world each Spring to capture landscape photographs, romantic portraits under the...

Japan: A Complete Guide to Kyoto Photography Locations

A Photographer’s Guide to Kyoto, Japan The true beauty of Japanese culture comes to life in the traditional city of Kyoto. Wooded forests hide ornate temples and shrines, Geisha scurry into historic merchant houses...

5 Places to Photograph in February – The Photographer’s Forecast

Want to know where to take photos in February? As a new series, I want to document the best places to photograph each month around the world. Whether you’re able to visit somewhere close...
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