Travel photography has become an essential part of exploring new places, allowing travelers to capture moments, landscapes, and memories that last long after the trip ends. Whether you're visiting bustling cities, peaceful villages, or planning time around a beautiful island to visit, taking photos helps document the emotions and experiences that make each journey unique. With smartphones and lightweight cameras, it's easier than ever to snap high-quality images, experiment with angles, and create a personal visual story of your adventures. Photography not only enhances the travel experience but also lets you relive those special moments again and again.

It’s scary to rely only on memory. Memories are unreliable, they fade, change, and all that. A photo or a video stays with us for a very long time, maybe even forever.

Photos mean a lot to me, because at the end of the year I often put together a photo album with pictures from all the places I managed to visit. On top of that, I have a tradition. Before a trip, I literally draw myself a big plan or map, a large poster where I plan my route from the very beginning, like now when I’m planning a cruise. I look at what stops there will be, for example ports of arrival in Europe by sea, where I can go ashore, walk around, and explore the area. Later, when I’m back and print the photos, I stick them onto this poster and then hang it on the wall until the end of the year.