My Actual Travel Photography Kit (by Trip Type) I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and in that time my camera bag has been on African safaris, out in the Arctic night in Finland and Iceland waiting for the northern lights, and around more European cities than I could sensibly list. I’ve also been […]

The Best Binoculars for Safari in 2026: What We Actually Use and Recommend I grew up on a small island in the Seychelles called Bird Island, which was home to a handful of people and several million nesting seabirds. Just about every adult I knew had a pair of binoculars within reach, and a decent […]

The Best Travel Tripods in 2026: A Photographer’s Buying Guide I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and in that time I’ve owned more travel tripods than I care to count, including several generations of Vanguard’s VEO range and the Peak Design Travel Tripod, both of which I’ve reviewed in depth here on the […]

The Best Camera Straps in 2026: A Travel Photographer’s Picks The best camera strap for most photographers is the Peak Design Slide. I’ve been a professional travel photographer since 2010, I bought my first Slide back in 2015, and I haven’t used another strap system on my main cameras since. Of course, the Slide isn’t […]

Best Camera Bags for Travel Photography in 2026: What I Actually Use After 15 Years on the Road I slipped on ice at Kirkjufell once, scrambling for a sunset shot, and the only reason my camera survived the fall was the bag I happened to be carrying. The dignity, of course, did not survive. Over […]

Prime Day 2026: The 7 Photography Deals Actually Worth Buying I have been a professional travel photographer since 2010, and I buy a lot of my gear, and a frankly silly number of memory cards, in the Amazon sales. So every Prime Day I go through the camera deals to sort the few real price […]

Best Memory Card for Photography: A Working Photographer’s 2026 Guide I’ve worked as a professional travel photographer since 2010, and in that time I’ve shot to almost every type of memory card going, from CompactFlash in my early DSLRs to the CFexpress card sitting in my Canon R5 today. If you’ve just bought a camera […]

Best ND Filters for Travel Photography: 2026 Pro Picks If you are packing a camera for a trip and trying to work out whether an ND filter is worth the space in the bag, the answer is yes, with one caveat: which ND. Variable, fixed, magnetic, square slot-in. Three stops, six, ten. Different filters do […]