Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder, and for the next five minutes, Paul Goldstein, award-winning photographer, has the opportunity to try to convince me through the medium of audio how to take a good travel photograph.

So, is it just about being somewhere where there are good things

to photograph or is it more complicated than that?

Well, I'm not sure this is going to be an easy conversion because I believe Simon

you were, you at one stage owned the oldest digital camera in the world. However, the most important thing is research.

If you do your research to find the best place, the best time a year, the best time of day.

Also, if you're crammed in a vehicle with lots of other people, it's not going to happen.

Secondly, and critically, decide on your quarry first.

You know, maybe do it by species, not just by country.

And if you do your research properly, and that'll make a difference.

Do you need to spend thousands and thousands?

Well, yeah, probably would help, but why not hire a bit of gear?

You know, that's a much and decide whether you like it. Thirdly, the harshest critic has to be yourself.

Fourthly, if you don't think it's worth taking, don't take it, just enjoy it.

Fifthly, very, very importantly, if you're not prepared to get dirty and crawling around or stuff like that, don't photograph because all you'll

do is just take a series of record shots. Acumulation is boorish. A few individual shots is

generally much, much more interesting. And lastly, it's just a photograph. Don't be afraid

of failure. Think ambitiously. Think how could I do this differently, rather than just taking the same... Oh look, there's a leopard lying in a tree. I must have that. It has been done before. You know, you go ashore in South Georgia. If you're on a big fat cruise ship, you won't. You'll just look at it from a great distance, but you get what you deserve for being on a big cruise ship. But if you go ashore and there's 200,000 King Penguins, it's hardly difficult to record them.

But record shots are the work of the devil. They're the photographic antiprice.

Well, can you define them? I mean, surely I go on holiday, and just as people have done ever since photography became a mass opportunity

and now of course the cost is effectively fallen to zero. Of course I'm just going to photograph

whatever I'm seeing. That's fine. There's no law. I mean it's not illegal. But if you want,

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