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Enter Your Best Travel Pics In The Adventure Handbook’s Photo Competition

For your chance to be exhibited in Sydney and win $3,000 worth of adventure gear including a Canon EOS M3 camera.
Photograph by Kevin Trageser courtesy of The Adventure Handbook

Over the past two years, The Adventure Handbook has carved out a niche as a storytelling and photography site for people who prefer taking the road less traveled. Combining awe-inspiring photos with first hand accounts of the experiences behind them, the site takes you all over the world through the eyes of an ever-expanding collective of talented photographers. Delve in and you’ll find chronicles of a penniless month of hitchhiking around New Zealand, a motorcycle odyssey up the Pan-American highway, and a spontaneous car trip to Yereven, Armenia.

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Today The Adventure Handbook launches their first photography competition—and The Creators Project is on the judging panel. Open to photographers from anywhere in the world, the competition runs until April 24th. To enter, upload a shot of your travels with a 50-100 word caption that tells the story behind it. There’s no limit to the number of entries; you can submit as many times as you like.

Finalists will be exhibited in Sydney in May, and three winners will receive an adventure kit of gear valued at over $3,000—including $500 cash, a Canon EOS M3 camera and lenses as well as products from Macpac, Ultimate Ears, Homecamp, Globe, Shwood, and Rumpla.

So what makes a travel photo a great travel photo? “That's a tough question,” co-founder Luke Byrne tells The Creators Project. “I guess firstly there is the technical side—some nice light, activity, subject, composition. In terms of the final image it's kind of personal; if I see a shot and there is a story unfolding in frame, that usually stands out. At the end of the day if you look at a photo and you are left with questions like ‘Where then hell was that taken? I want to go there!’ then that usually makes for a pretty great travel photo.”

For some inspiration on your entry, head to The Adventure Handbook’s website and Instagram, or take a look at some of these phots they’ve published in the past.

“Every full moon there's a party atop a magic mountain between the ocean and the city. Follow the fit looking people in lycra shorts up the hill from Bar Beach and take a right up the concrete stairs. Follow the path until it doesn't look like a path and there we'll be. You're welcome”—Joe Nigel Coleman.

“Glamis Dunes are in the far Southeastern corner of California, and they're the birthplace of dune buggy culture. I shot this over Thanksgiving weekend, and there were over 100,000 people at the dunes on every kind of vehicle you can imagine. This was also shot for the NY Times Magazine”—Peter Bohler.

“Sometimes I decide to tell wrong stories to pictures. Of course people want to know where pictures where taken and why. But sometimes its fun to come up with fake stories and see the reaction of the people. Being a good storyteller is not easy”—Clemen Fantur.

“Although Kerlingarfjöll seems like an oasis of the waste Icelandic highland today, it was seen as a hideaway for criminals for a long time and therefore avoided by most people. The first explorer reached those mountains in the middle of the 19th century only and it wasn’t until the 1940s that this mountain range was truly explored”—Nicola Odemann.

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