151 Consecutive Sunday Posts
Dear friends of Travelure, this is my 151st consecutive Sunday post. After completing the quincentennial post last week, I decided I’ll now post twice a month. From now on, you can read my posts on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. While that will be the norm going forward, in this post, let me take you through this almost 3-year journey.
It was on 21st October 2018 that I started posting every Sunday, 9 pm IST. During this extended period, I have posted about an assortment of destinations, photography techniques, photo essays, and interviews with some noteworthy global travel bloggers.
In this journey, I am proud of the two series I ran – a 52-week series titled ‘Our Planet’s Landmarks’, and a 26-week series called ‘The MasterClass Series’. While the Landmarks series covered both the popular and the quaint, the MasterClass series is a ready-reckoner for photography enthusiasts to shoot the unusual.
Besides these two, another series that helped not just my readers, but even me, to get to know some of my travel blogger friends better was ‘Travel Shapers.’ This series was my humble way of showing my admiration for the path-breaking work these folks have done in the tough field of travel blogging.
Our Planet’s Landmarks
I started this series with the Cellular Jail in Port Blair, Andaman. After that, the series meandered through the popular attractions like the Schonbrunn Palace (Vienna, Austria), Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania), Sun Temple (Konark, India), and Sydney Opera House (Australia), and the unusual ones like the Bone Church (Kutna Hora, The Czech Republic), Skogskyrkogarden or Woodland Cemetery (Stockholm, Sweden), and the Catacombs (Paris, France).
Almost 90% of posts in this series cover UNESCO sites. It even covered Göbekli Tepe (Turkey), the most ancient site of humans practising religion or the first human-built holy place, and also, the largest gathering of humans – the Kumbh Mela (Prayagraj, India). As I progressed with the series, I learnt an important craft – the craft of storytelling. It encouraged me that it found favour with my readers like you. It even inspired me to start a year-long series of daily posts on UNESCO sites on my Instagram feed (@travelure).
The MasterClass Series
As a travel photographer, I have faced my share of photography challenges during my travels. These included some stumpers like the light, the elements, or the local conditions. Battling these, I learnt a thing or two about how to tame them. I also realised my fellow travel photographers must also face these issues during their shoots. In the MasterClass series, I have shared my learning that helps you address these knotty situations.
It covers a wide gamut of situations ranging from instilling a sense of speed in a still photograph to capturing architectural structures without distortions. It even covers stuff like making mundane look dramatic or adding a sense of mystique to the ordinary. Have a read. It is fruitful.
Travel Shapers
In today’s digital era, travel enthusiasts plan their travels by surfing the net and consuming online content that helps them shape their itineraries. As a participant and speaker in some travel blogging conferences, including TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange) and Trablin, I came close to many strong influencers that help travel lovers across the globe plan their travels through some sparkling content.
This prompted me to showcase these superlative content creators in a once-a-month series (last Sunday of every month) titled ‘Travel Shapers.’ It helped me to know these extraordinary folks better. Read about them. The links to their content can lead to some unusual travel plans.
My journey of storytelling on my blog continues. Just that, I will now bring you two stories a month instead of a weekly tale. Stay tuned. The frequency may have reduced, but the passion remains undiminished!
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