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By Selena Chery


There are amazing things to photograph in New York City. Many leading photographers have shot pictures of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and the Empire State Building. New York City may be the home of a NY Travel Photographer, but he travels around the world to return with photos of cities and remote villages.

A photographer spends much time away from home filming pictures of remote islands and mountain tops. When they bring them back for publication, people can see and learn about places they never knew existed. It is like a window into a world they may never see.

It is not within everyone's means to take a trip to view all the amazing parts of the world we live in. New York has much to offer, but, there is so much more. We can travel around the world vicariously when we leaf through the National Geographic magazine or turn pages of a coffee table book showing wildlife around the world.

What most people know of the world are the major tourist attractions in each country. The Eiffel Tower and waterways of Venice are familiar. But, it is a rare treat to see people walking down a narrow cobblestone street in France. Tall buildings on either side give it the appearance of a tunnel.

An award-winning photographer can make you feel sand in your shoes as you look at the sun rising over a tropical beach. You may see polar bears in Alaska as they walk past villages in the search for food. You may feel immersed in the rain forest of Kenya, where the diminishing numbers of gorillas live. He may return with pictures of whales viewed from the deck of a cruise ship.

He may be taking pictures to promote a cause such as saving the habitat of gorillas. He may show a happy family of tourists riding horseback on a mountain trail. All the photographs brought back to New York can be published for the everyday citizen to see and learn about places they might not otherwise know exist.




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