Field notes
The guides we send to every participant, published for everyone — preparation, gear, ethics, and the paperwork that saves trips.
How to Prepare for a Photography Workshop
The participants who get the most from a workshop start working before it starts. A preparation guide from the people who run them.
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The Best Camera Gear Is a Shorter List
Our instructors agree on almost nothing except this: bring less, know it better. A gear philosophy, with actual recommendations.
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The Photographer's Packing Method
Eight kilograms, every climate, camera included. The packing system our travelling instructors actually use.
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The Photography Travel Checklist
Visas, vaccinations, permits, insurance, and the boring paperwork that separates a working trip from an expensive lesson. Printable and blunt.
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An Editing Workflow for the Road
How to keep a trip's files alive, backed up, and moving toward an edit — without carrying a studio or losing an evening to it.
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The Ethics of Photographing Elsewhere
Consent, payment, poverty, and the pictures you don't take: our working rules for photographing in other people's places.
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Insurance for Photographers Who Travel
Gear cover, evacuation clauses, and the fine print that matters when the workshop is remote. Unexciting, until it is the whole trip.
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Visas and Borders for Travelling Photographers
When a camera bag raises questions, what 'tourist' covers, and the permits that are actually about photography. General guidance for the paperwork's photographic edge.
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Ten Beginner Habits Worth Breaking Early
The patterns instructors see in every first-year photographer, and the small corrections that fix them — kindly, since we all had all ten.
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What Working Photographers Do Differently
Not talent, not gear: the unglamorous professional habits that separate a practice from a hobby, collected from our instructors.
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