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15 Bucket-List Places Every Photographer Should Shoot at Least Once
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items From Namibia's red dunes to Norway's Arctic fishing villages, these are the places that end up on every photographer's wish list, and for good reason. For each one I've added the best time to go and what to look for so you come home with more than th...
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Epic Landscapes
Coast & Islands
Culture & Cities
Epic Landscapes
A white clay pan dotted with 700-year-old dead camel thorn trees, surrounded by some of the tallest red dunes on earth. Arrive at sunrise when the dunes glow orange while the pan is still in shadow, and use a telephoto lens to compress the trees agai...
Deadvlei, Namibia
Jagged peaks rising straight out of the Arctic sea, with red fishing cabins (rorbuer) perched on stilts along the shore. Reine and Hamnøy are the classic viewpoints. Go in late February or March for snow-capped mountains, soft pink light that lasts f...
Lofoten Islands, Norway
Iceland's most photographed mountain, a perfectly shaped peak on the Snæfellsnes peninsula with the little Kirkjufellsfoss waterfalls in front. The classic composition puts the falls in the foreground with the mountain behind. In winter, shoot it und...
Kirkjufell, Iceland
Three granite towers, turquoise glacial lakes, guanacos on the plains and winds strong enough to knock you over: Patagonia at its most dramatic. The hike to the base of the towers at sunrise is the iconic shot, and Lake Pehoé with the Cuernos behind ...
Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia
That impossible turquoise water beneath the Valley of the Ten Peaks is real, coloured by glacial rock flour. Climb the Rockpile trail for the famous view, ideally at sunrise when the peaks light up pink. The lake is usually only ice-free from June to...
Moraine Lake, Banff, Canada
Three colossal limestone towers in the Italian Dolomites, and one of the finest easy hikes in the Alps: a roughly 10 km loop from the Rifugio Auronzo car park. The north faces glow red at sunset, and the view from near Rifugio Locatelli is the classi...
Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Dolomites, Italy
Hundreds of hot-air balloons drifting over fairy chimneys and cave houses at sunrise: few places are this photogenic. You don't need to be in a balloon; some of the best shots are from the ground or a rooftop terrace in Göreme, with balloons layered ...
Cappadocia, Turkey
Coast & Islands
Whitewashed houses and blue domes cascading down a volcanic caldera into the Aegean. The sunset crowds at the castle ruins are legendary, so do what photographers do: shoot at sunrise when the lanes are empty and the light is soft, and find the famou...
Oia, Santorini, Greece
Nearly 2,000 limestone islands and pillars rising out of emerald water in northern Vietnam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Book an overnight cruise so you're on the water at dawn, when mist hangs between the karsts and the day-trip boats haven't arriv...
Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam
Roughly 140 km of Highway 1 clinging to cliffs above the Pacific, with Bixby Creek Bridge, McWay Falls pouring onto a beach and redwood canyons along the way. Drive south to north so the ocean is on your side, and linger at pull-outs at sunset. Morni...
Big Sur, California
A waterfall plunging off a sea cliff straight into the North Atlantic, with a tiny grass-roofed village perched above it and peaks behind. Múlafossur at Gásadalur is the image that put the Faroe Islands on every photographer's map. The weather change...
Gásadalur & Múlafossur, Faroe Islands
Culture & Cities
Thousands of vermilion torii gates snake up Mount Inari in tunnels of glowing orange. The first stretch is packed by 9am, so arrive at dawn, or simply keep climbing: crowds thin out dramatically past the Yotsutsuji intersection, halfway up, where you...
Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
Stone steps leading down to the Ganges in one of the world's oldest living cities, where life, prayer and death all happen in public along the river. Take a rowing boat at sunrise for soft golden light on the ghats, and return for the evening Ganga A...
The Ghats of Varanasi, India
Walk through the narrow, rose-coloured Siq canyon and the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) is revealed through the gap: one of travel's great ‘wow’ moments. Arrive when the gates open to have it almost to yourself, then climb the 800-odd steps to the Monastery ...
Petra, Jordan
No city photographs quite like Venice: canals, gondolas, crumbling palazzi and reflections everywhere. Get up for blue hour at the Rialto Bridge and St Mark's Square before the day-trippers arrive, then lose yourself in the quiet back canals of Canna...
Venice, Italy