Where Travel Photographers
Explore, Create, and Connect
Join a global community inspired by travel, creativity, and meaningful adventures, with monthly magazines, creative challenges, and a supportive network of photographers around the world.
A CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO LOVE TO TRAVEL.
Created by the founder of The Wandering Lens, this community began with a simple idea, to bring together people who love travel and photography.
What started as a blog has grown into a global network of photographers, from beginners to professionals, all connected by a shared passion for exploring the world with a camera.
Today, we offer a creative home for travel photographers through a welcoming membership, monthly magazines, creative challenges, destination inspiration, private community chat and online courses designed to support your journey, wherever it may take you.
Creative Education for Photographers of All Levels
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The Composition Course - Throughout this short online course (with lifetime access), we’ll delve deep into how to approach a scene, how to improve your composition, and how to find creative vision to start capturing images that stand out.
A Guide to Working with Natural Light + Colour Palettes - This eBook shares all about the characteristics of light, the types of light, how to shoot in various conditions and more.
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The Freelance Travel Photographer Course - Join me for this 8-module online course where I break down everything you need to know about working as a travel photographer.
By the end of the course you’ll know how to build a portfolio, find relevant clients, pitch publications, work on creative campaigns, market yourself for press trips, produce photo features and editorials, plus generate a full-time or side income from your photography + adventures.
The Creative Portfolio Program - For photographers ready to curate with purpose, craft a cohesive portfolio, and share their work with confidence.
Professional Portfolio Review - Feedback on your imagery/website/direction.
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The Print Store Launch Pad Course - This is your step-by-step program to start selling prints. Guiding you from print preparation and creating collections, to web development, finding customers and shipping orders!
eBook: SEO + Web Design for Photographers: Within this guide, you’ll find advice on how to integrate SEO strategies into your website, where to include keywords to help boost traffic to your site and of course, how to make it pretty and appealing to visitors!
A Global Creative Community - Join us!
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Explore a Membership: Inside the club, you’ll find a global community of photographers from over 20 countries who create, learn, and explore together - from beginners discovering their style to professionals refining their craft.
@thetravelphotographyclub: Follow our club’s Instagram account to see member features + travel inspiration.
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Interviews + Articles: Browse interviews with club members and photographers across a variety of genres from people to aerial.
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The Travel Photography Club Awards 2025 - Browse the winning images and photographers, such a strong turn out with over 1200 submissions for the inaugural awards, sponsored by OM SYSTEM + Peak Design.
eBooks + Educational Articles
The Member Experience
BROWSE THE READING ROOM
Notes, musings, and advice on topics for travel photographers. A peek behind the scenes with career stories, travel adventures (and misadventures), interviews and photographer features, this space is a source of creative inspiration for those who seek to explore, experience and visually document the world.
Announcement - Hip, hip hooray!
There’s a new type of camera club and you’re welcome to join! ‘The Travel Photography Club’ is a members-only community for photographers who love travel, the outdoors, and creative exploration. Inside, you’ll find inspiring conversations, shared experiences, creative prompts, destination ideas, and optional resources to support your photography, wherever you are on your journey.
Plus - all members receive a 12-month subscription to ‘The Travel Photographer’s Journal’ magazine.
The Travel Photography Club Awards
2025 Winners + Category Finalists
It's time to announce the winners!
Thank you to everyone who submitted images for our inaugural awards.
The standard of entries across all categories was incredibly high, and images reflected a diverse set of skills and destinations. The talent that exists within The Travel Photography Club and The Wandering Lens community is so inspiring, and I’m very excited to share the winning images and finalists via the link below.
After reviewing a diverse and inspiring collection of over 1200 submissions from photographers around the world, our judges have selected the Winners, Finalists, and Highly Commended images across each category.
Online creative resources and courses for travel and landscape photographers. Learn from international travel photographer Lisa Michele Burns of The Wandering Lens, OM SYSTEM Ambassador.
Boost your creative vision, find direction as a photographer, learn to edit or pitch, get published & find clients suited to your unique skills. You may even wish to discover your path to a freelance career in travel photography - anything is possible!
Boost your creativity
Develop your skills as a travel photographer
Generate multiple income streams
Pitch to publications and clients.
Explore the archives of The Wandering Lens
Photography Career Advice + Articles
Creative Photography Tips + Techniques
Join a global creative community
of like-minded photographers!
‘The Travel Photography Club’ is a members-only space filled with inspiring conversations, exclusive content, and monthly creative challenges aimed to boost your photographic skills, travel plans and professional opportunities.
Your annual membership provides access to the following:
The members-only area filled with a library of downloadable creative resources, eBooks and travel itineraries for photographers
A 12-month subscription to The Travel Photographer’s Journal, our club magazine.
Creative + career advice for travel photographers (beginners + professionals are welcome, there are resource for all levels)
A members-only discount on all courses + resources offered by The Wandering Lens, plus VIP invites to all future tours and photo walks.
The chance to have your images reviewed with constructive feedback
and the best part…a private chat forum where we can discuss and talk all things travel, photography, gear, editing, industry news and more.
Join for a year and use the membership to improve your photography + get travel tips with access to new resources every month!
TESTIMONIALS + STUDENT EXPERIENCE
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“I just wanted to say a massive thank you for your courses. They have given me so much help and confidence while moving my little business forward. The travel course has meant that I am now happy with my site and I have already been approached for two travel photography jobs and am working with a publisher to include specific images in a travel guide that is being published in the new year. None of this would not have happened without your guidance and support. ”
Suzanne Easton, Canada
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"The way Lisa delivers her courses and the value within them, is by far the best value for money and the level of detail and knowledge she shares is incomparible to any other course out there. Quite simply, I've never found another photographer that can match Lisa's courses, I'm so grateful to have found such a brilliant photographer and teacher to learn from."
Deb Newton, Australia
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“I am constantly referring back to the information Lisa provided, and challenging myself in new ways with the content. I've been dabbling in photography for 20 years, and still learned some amazing new things from the early chapters on composition techniques. The content that I was most looking forward to - pursuing business in the industry - did not disappoint, but I found that the most helpful content for me was actually in honing my niche and portfolio.”
Laura Merz, USA
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I had followed Lisa on Instagram and admired her photography for quite some time when I finally decided to purchase her course. It was *so* worth it. I love her teaching style. And, I was able to put into practice some of her techniques immediately like adding foreground objects to provide visual interest. She can definitely help you elevate your photography skills so don’t hesitate to purchase any of her programs!
Rebecca Schochenmaier, USA
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Lisa sparked a new creativity in us that we did not know we possessed. We can honestly say it was the best investment we ever made for our photography and would love to do it again in the future.”
Karin + Markus, Fotonomaden, Austria
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“This has been such an enjoyable course for me. I came into this workshop with a year of experience behind my lens and mostly self taught. I’ve gained confidence in my work, so much so that I started to sell my prints. It’s really been an incredible journey and I truly believe that Lisa’s course was the catalyst to get me going”.”
Jenn Gold, USA
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"Finishing the course was a little sad as I loved every workbook. My favorite part about all of this is the community and support. Meeting amazing people and being able to connect from across the world is a feeling I will never get over. I can’t wait to see what our journeys hold!”
Jessy Sanchez, USA
