Not Sure What to Shoot? Try This!

©ISTOCKPHOTO/FERRAN TRAITE SOLER AND SCOTT KELBY

If you’ve ever arrived in a city while on vacation and you don’t have any idea where or what to shoot, your first stop should be a local gift shop to look at their postcards. If you see any interesting locations, it will usually tell you the name of them on the back of the postcard, or you can show the postcard to the shopkeeper and ask them where it’s located. Okay, so why not just buy the postcard and head for the bar? Because we’re photographers, that’s why. Plus, we might be able to come back with some better images than the ones on the postcards they’re selling (in fact, maybe next year they’ll be selling your shots as their postcards, and hopefully, they’re doing so with your permission and a commission).