Photography Prompt: Globetrotting

Week of 2025-06-14 to 2025-06-20

Aminus3 Photography

and

Jason Kravitz

Jun 14, 2025

The photography prompt this week is: Globetrotting

… voyage, travel, the world, multi-cultural, celebration, tradition, festivals

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Be Inspired and Learn Something New

The world is a big place full of many cultures, and diverse experiences.

When we travel and immerse ourselves in other places, we are expanding our perceptions and ourselves in the process.

Hitaki-sai Fire Festival - Fushimi Inari Taisha by Hiro

I remember the first time I traveled internationally from the US to Rome for a work trip. I had this weird notion of feeling like a different version of myself in a foreign setting. It wasn't until more international travel and another trip to Rome several years later when it occurred to me that I'm the same person in any place.

I was not just visiting a far-off (for me) city like Rome as an observer, only experiencing the past or history there, but I was also experiencing the life of the place fully in the moment as the person I am anywhere else.

It is a little hard to describe, and maybe it sounds silly to the true globetrotters out there, but this was a revelation of sorts for me at the time.

Photography has this power as well.

Before social media, or even television, we read magazines like “National Geographic” and “Life”, which became a portal for us to experience the world in far off places right from the comfort of home.

Photography is so powerful a medium that we can feel a sense of adventure, and even empathy for others, by just looking at photos without having experienced it firsthand.

That’s a starting point for the prompt this week. You might have a look through your archives to pull up themes around travel, adventure, or celebrating cultural diversity. Imagine a moment that was transformative for you away from home, and share that feeling with the rest of us.

If you would like to get out and create new photos for the prompt this week, I offer this suggestion.

Imagine that someone from across the world is learning about where you are. What type of image would you show them to honor this same energy of expanding their horizons with new experiences from where you live?

It doesn't have to be the typical tourist things, better if not. What kind of unique moments, places, or celebrations could you share?

Give it some thought and share some “Globetrotting” pics with us!

Last Week’s Prompt Photos for “Intersection”

The Intersection photo prompt was an excellent study in the way a single photo can contain multiple layers of meaning from the literal to symbolic.

While some were fairly straight forward.

Others started to get a little more ambiguous.

The notion of perspective and relativity was apparent.

Guy Sneyers

and

Mark Foard

illustrate the intersections we can find by looking upward.

Not all intersections were clean and pristine. Some were a little messier, or as

Vanessa Edwards

brilliantly described the palm in her photo as “gorgeously complex.”

Photos by Designing with Code, Vanessa, Echoes of Tanin

A few people explored the fuzzy intersection between “reality” and reflections.

We also found ourselves at the intersection of old and new. History and modernity.

Robyn Carter

shared her thoughts on how music intersects in our lives with this metaphorical and literal crossing of the cellists.

As a lead-in to this week’s “Globetrotter” prompt, and in the spirit of diverse cultures coming together in celebration, here is a beautiful moment photographed by

one Picture one Story

from a gathering in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As he writes :

“Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I live is a year-round intersection of cultures: Native, Spanish, Mexican, Chicano, Latin, and Anglo. Every July Santa Fe hosts the International Folk Arts Market which brings artisans and craftspeople and performers from around the world.”

See all the photos shared on Aminus3 for last week’s Intersection prompt.

Substack photos shared this week from:

Aminus3 Essence of Photography