Travel Photography. Two words that have a great appeal to me and chances are, since you found the way to this website, to you as well. To me, travel photography combines two of the things I love the most. Make an educated guess ...

"Don't you feel like you're missing the very moment, when you're only experiencing it through your viewfinder?"

That's what people often ask me and the explicit answer is: "No, not a single bit". I feel like I enjoy the moment even more, soaking in the experience and vibe even deeper. Concentrating on capturing the essence of a landscape, an event, a situation actually helps me to be fully aware of my whole surrounding.Over the last, lets say five to six years, I've made quite a lot of photography mistakes which resulted in a crazy amount of bad pictures. Whenever I returned home after a short or long-term trip and checked the photos on my computer, the yield looked something like this:

1-5% good shots, 10-15% decent shots and all the residual photos, more or less 85% were pretty much crap.

So apart from sucking at photography (let's just pretend this is not the root of the matter) there are endless reasons for your photos not turning out as stunning as you would like them to. It might be the bad weather. Maybe the wrong time of the year. Or too many tourists in front of the sight and so on. But I think one of the main reasons is actually bad preparation.However, I learned a lot from those very mistakes and that helped me improving my photographic skills over time to a level, where I feel confident enough to share some of my work. Don't get me wrong though. There's still a lot of mistakes to make and a lot of stuff to learn. And I'm certainly far from calling myself a professional photographer. Still I'd like to share some of the things I've learned over the years and I hope it might help some people, not to make the same mistakes.