Have camera - will take LOTS of travel pics

We love to travel and I take lots of photos – LOTS-of-photos…. I only have to look back at my photos to be transported back there to that time and place to relive those experiences.  

 You only have to look at my latest touring blog posts about our trip to South Australia last year to see what I mean - On the road through South Australia

Photo albums or photo books are a great way to have a permanent record of your trip. They can become coffee table books to be picked up and thumbed through and shared. Have you ever made a photo book? Yes they can be expensive, but infinitely rewarding. (hmm…note to self – start making photo book of our South Australia trip last year!). There are quite a few on-line services where you can make photo books.

But what good are photos sitting on a computer hard-drive? And worse still maybe be lost in a computer crash. A good reason to back up your hard drive. Do you back up? How often do you back up? I should do it every month, but in reality it might be 2 or 6 months or even 12 months – not good enough! We are often reminded that “it is not if a hard drive will crash, it is when”. (another note to self – time to back up again!) 

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 Along with our travel, photo taking and blogging, I casually write freelance travel articles in my spare time. So in a way some of my images are preserved when a magazine is published. "Naturally Outstanding" (see above) is an article I wrote about Purnululu National Park in the Kimberley published in On The Road magazine.

But articles like this are only current in the month the magazine is put on the newsagents’ shelves. It’s not like a book that may stand the test of time in a library.  And as I discovered on a trip to Australia’s capital, Canberra, a few years ago, these type of magazines are not kept in our National Library archives.  The old saying ‘today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper’ is very true. 

A few of months ago I was contacted by Hema Maps. They are a highly respected large mapping and travel guide company in Australia.  They had found me on the web when they were looking for an image of Camel Soak camping area near Perenjori to use in their new "4WD and Camping Escapes, Perth and South West" guide.

 From this small and unexpected beginning I am excited to say that they bought five of my images for the Fifth edition of their “The Kimberley Atlas and Guide”.   Here is a link -  Hema maps

 

 This one you see below here, which I took of Boab Trees near Parry’s Lagoon between Kununurra and Wyndham is one of my favourites from our Kimberley trip in 2009

 

I am so thrilled that Hema have used some of my photos in their new Kimberley Guide and I hope that I will be able to sell them more of my images for future guides and maps they have on their drawing boards.

 

My images are going to be looked at by countless travellers from all over Australia as they plan and travel through the Kimberley.  How exciting is that! 

 Here are my other four images they chose - sunset from Kungkalanayi Lookout and walking through Piccaninny Creek in Purnululu, Marglu Billabong and the Old Halls Creek Road south of Wyndham.

 My name is in tiny print in the book, but if you happen to see a Kimberley Guide, I would love you to scroll through and take a look. 

 

Do you buy Hema guides and maps? There guides are excellent with great maps, GPS points for places of interest and camp sites, history, travel tips etc  Here is a link to find out more – Hema Maps

 Also last year the Bruce Rock Shire in the Western Australian wheatbelt bought some of my images for their new-look web site - Bruce Rock Shire - and one of my images is now on a banner in the Bruce Rock Shire offices.  Anyone who goes into their offices will see my image of my brother-in-law’s header harvesting his wheat crop. The green bin being towed at the side with the wheat pouring into it from the header is called a "chaser bin" - they fill while still moving and harvesting.

       

Another lucky sale that just came up out of the blue – or I should say out of Google or Flickr or my blog. Whichever way, because I am out there posting images I am making a few sales. Better than the images languishing on my hard drive don’t you think?

 Of course if you are posting images on line make sure you reduce the size and resolution and add your watermark (name) over the top of the image. That way potential uses will have to contact you to get high resolution images. Naming and tagging images will also help them find you when they are searching on the web. This can be done through programs like Photoshop Elements or web based editing like PicMonkey.  The collage on this post was done through PicMonkey. 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you don't my little "brag" today. I will be back to my South Australia trip blogging very soon. I value your comments and look forward to hearing from you. Have a wonderful week.

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