Planning A Travel Itinerary For Your Photography Trip

Almost 2 years after the outbreak of Covid, I am finally planning my next travel. In this story, let me share with you my planning process for the photo shooting part of the trip.

Photo by author. Shot in Tokyo.

Since the beginning of 2020, all of us have been literally grounded from traveling because of the pandemic. Almost two years later, I am finally planning for my first post-pandemic trip. Since everyone’s travel planning process may look very different, I thought it would be interesting to share mine with you and get your thoughts on what works and what can be improved.

Let’s first start with some context for the trip — I will be flying to Los Angeles and staying there for a week. There is no specific agenda for the trip. It is just mostly visiting museums, eating Japanese food to fix my craving for Japan, and most importantly take home with more street photos to replenish my photo inventory, which is almost depleted thanks to the pandemic. The 3-step planning process I am about to share will be only focused on the photo shooting part of the travel itinerary

Step 1 — Create a list of interesting locations to visit.