PhotoSecrets

PhotoSecrets Do you like to TRAVEL and take PHOTOS? Explore the world with us via the largest selection of travel photo guides. Find and take your best shots ever.

21/12/2019
6 stellar gifts for the Las Vegas lover on your list

Happy holidays! Excited to share that PhotoSecrets is featured in the this month as one of six gift ideas for , appearing just under Lady Gaga’s Haus Laboratories. (Can read my poker face!)

These Las Vegas-centric gifts will be a holiday hit with visitors and locals alike.

22/11/2019

PhotoSecrets: then and now. Our first guide (left), published 22 years ago, has been re-created for the Instagram age (right) and is on sale now. You may leave your ❤️ in , but always take lots of in exchange!

19/11/2019

Excited to have 8 out of 12 of the new guides carried by Costco this holiday season. Thanks to National Book Network for their efforts in making this partnership happen -- and here’s to capturing great travel memories: the best gift of all! Where shall we go?

12/11/2019

Introducing PhotoSecrets v2.0: the travel guides for your camera. Optimized for smartphones. Made for travelers and photographers, Instagrammer to pro.
Where shall we go?

09/08/2018

We love giving a point of view - or six! Especially when we can help make your travel photos come to life. Here’s a sample page from the Lisbon book coming this fall.
Have a point of view to share?

06/08/2018

Insider’s look at our next photo guide, coming to book stores this fall!

Beautiful, historic Lisbon is one of the most popular travel destinations this year. We love it for the stunning views afforded by the “city of seven hills,” the architectural antiquities, and nostalgic cobbled streets. Great subject matter for magical photos!

(We’re particularly tickled that Lisbon’s history of WWII espionage inspired author Ian Fleming to create James Bond. PhotoSecrets has a soft spot for 007.)

Do you have photos or tales from Lisbon?

27/07/2018

PhotoSecrets is now on Instagram! Follow us at photosecretsguides.

27/07/2018

July 27, 1994: I was in the most faraway and exotic place I knew of; a dream since childhood. The one thing I had to do, and wanted to do, was to capture the spirit of adventure with the one thing I could remember this by: a photo.

And here’s the shot that I traveled around the world to get.

27/07/2018

July 27, 1994: Into Phang Nga Bay I ventured, on a boat trip past magnificent limestone cliffs. We saw a cave and some outcrops, and the towering walls came closer. It felt like another movie I loved, The Land That Time Forgot (1975). Perhaps there were long-lost dinosaurs behind the vegetation.

The boat entered the mouth of a small bay and I glimpsed the pinnacle of my trip and imagaination. Improbably jutting out from the center of the bay was a 66-foot tall (20 m) limestone tower known as Ko Ta Pu.

Cruising past the rocky column, we headed toward a curving, sandy beach. The spectacular scenery truly could have been the lair of a Bond villain. Then, just like James Bond, I landed on Scaramanga’s island.

27/07/2018

July 26, 1994: I landed in Phuket, Thailand. I knew the beach was around here somewhere, but where? I looked in local books. No. Postcards? No. Finally I found it, in a tour brochure: Phang Nga Bay.

26/07/2018

July 25, 1994: While waiting for a visa at the Indian Embassy in Singapore, I researched my next destination, and the inspiration for the trip: James Bond Island.

In the 1974 movie “The Man with the Golden Gun”, James Bond duels with Francisco Scaramanga, the famed assassin who uses a golden gun. As a child in England, this beach was the most exotic and faraway place I’d ever seen, and I had always wanted to go there.

But none of the guidebooks I had showed the beach, or even mentioned it. Even my trusty Lonely Planet Southeast Asia on a Shoestring.

I thought, “what you really need is a Lonely Planet book but with pictures instead of text, so you can flick through, find the view, and get a map to the location. It could be called “PhotoSecrets”.

25/07/2018

24 years ago today, I was in Bali on a round-the-world trip. A week earlier, I departed LAX seen off by then-girlfriend and now-wife and business partner, Jennie. Gee, my hair had color then, and Jennie hasn’t aged since.

Photos: Helping in the rice fields of Bali (July 24 1994); LAX (July 16); Making friends in China (July 19).

24/07/2018

So excited to celebrate 24 years since the inspiration for PhotoSecrets. Follow us this week as we share the journey in pictures, day-by-day as it happened.

23/07/2018

PhotoSecrets's cover photo

23/07/2018

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