Photography has come a long way over the years in terms of accessibility. It used to be something that was fairly costly. Buying and developing film was not cheap. These days, however, you can snap photos without spending much at all. Get your hands on a digital camera or be even cheaper and take photos with your cell phone. Upload them to your computer and store them there instead of paying to print them out.
What I really love about all of these changes is that people who are enjoying budget travel can take really good pictures on a budget. A look at some of the best budget travel photos on the web will prove this. For example, check out iamdpw.com. This is the budget travel photo collection of a traveler who has been all around the world. He keeps things cheap but he sees lots of cool stuff in affordable destinations. His pictures show off many of the amazing things that I’d love to see on my own travels, like temples, villages and fall leaves.
Or head over to funkytraveller.com and check out the photo galleries there. This is a website put together by several travelers who engage in low-cost travel like backpacking. Their adventures look like a whole lot of fun. Plus the pictures they take are really great. In particular I like the albums from Dan Barlow and Andy Webb. They capture a lot of cool details that I myself wouldn’t necessarily notice on a trip.
It’s also fun to take a look at the photos on the websites for Budget Travel magazines and blogs. Budget Travel, itself, and also Let’s Go Travel are two good sites that offer a lot of information about traveling at a low cost. These sites have professional writers and researchers and from the looks of it also must have professional photographers. I certainly can’t take pictures of this high quality but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy looking at them!
And finally, of course, there’s Flickr. There are so many Flickr photo pools for budget travel fans that I won’t bother to list them here. Suffice to say that I find it easy to spend hours on the site sharing photos and thoughts about photos with fellow budget travelers! I think looking at other people’s pictures of cheap travel makes you remember to enjoy the little things about your own trips regardless of whether or not you take a camera with you when you go.
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