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Lisa Michele Burns

Hello! I'm the founder and photographer behind The Wandering Lens. With 17+yrs experience as a professional travel and landscape photographer, all advice found on this site is from my personal experience on the road. I hope it's useful for your own travels and would love to hear in the comments about your trips and experiences around the world.

The Maldives : An underwater photography dream

Hello from the sunny island nation of the Maldives! I arrived five days ago and it’s taken me this long to pinch myself and realise I’m actually here. Really. The first two days were...

Inside the Palace of Versailles

Immense grandeur greets you within the gates of Versailles, a royal château in the Île-de-France region of France just outside Paris. Opulence and history blends with luxury and art throughout the halls of this...

Weekend Wanderlust: Verona, Italy

If you find yourself in Italy, don’t skip Verona. Even if it’s just an overnight stop this gem is well worth the visit just to sit with your legs dangling over the walls of...

London Photo Walk: The Stopover Route

It’s the city of historic splendour where architecture stands proud with an added little royal sparkle and the monument bucket list is endless. London has always been a favourite for visitors and personally, it’s...

Ski Style: My first date (disaster) with the slopes

Please tell me I’m not the only adult first time skier to cause chaos at the ski slopes? As groups of four year old children zipped past me at what felt like the speed...

The Twelve Apostles – Behind the lens

Growing up in Australia there have always been a few special places I’ve wanted to visit but somehow I ended up on the other side of the world instead. The Great Ocean Road sat...

Location Scout: Rome, Italy

With an air of history and buildings that house stories of days gone by, Rome has had my heart since the very first day I got lost in its cobble stoned streets. From a...

Behind the lens: Arashiyama, Bamboo Grove

It was a humid, hot and sweaty walk in search of the immensely beautiful Bamboo Grove I had heard so much about. Being July, we had chosen to visit Arashiyama, Japan on a beautiful...

Marrakech…it’s all in the details!

Behind the medina walls, the city of Marrakech reveals a hidden world of maze like alleyways filled with speckled light, colourful characters and endless photo opportunities. While it’s tempting to click away like a...

Destination: Aitutaki, Cook Islands

If you’re about to spin a globe to randomly pick your next holiday destination, you’ll want your finger to land a little north of New Zealand, south of Hawaii and just west of French...

No tripod? No worries! The temporary tripod technique.

Photo Tips – Camera Stability without a Tripod A little flashback to my first attempt at long exposures in 2007 Camera equipment can be a pain to lug around on your travels and I...

Behind the lens: Marrakech, Morocco

As the sun set over the red city, the magical world of the Djemma el-Fna came to life with sensory spectacles from snake charming to ancient story telling. Sitting with a mint tea on...
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