16 Simple Tips For Flawless Travel Photography

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An Instagram-famous photographer reveals the secrets to taking extraordinary pictures on your phone.

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Travel photographer Cole Rise is Instagram famous. As in, he created Rise, the filter, and has over 906,000 followers.

Since crafting Instagram's first photo treatments, Cole has promoted the gospel of the "unedited edited" look via his gorgeous pictures on Instagram, founded a mobile and desktop photo app of subtle filters called Litely, and was most recently featured in Apple's Shot on iPhone 6 campaign.

Needless to say, this guy knows his stuff. Cole sat down with BuzzFeed Life to discuss the secrets of subtle editing and how to get DSLR-worthy photos from your phone.

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27 Underrated U.S. Vacation Spots You Should Visit Before You Die

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Did your favorite hidden gem make the list?

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22 New Zealand Hikes Everyone Needs On Their Bucket List

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Whether you have three hours or seven days, you’ll find a hike for you.

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Auckland Coast To Coast Walk

Auckland Coast To Coast Walk

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17 Photos That Will Make You Want To Visit North Carolina

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So, what are you waiting for?

It's beautiful in the summer.

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It's gorgeous in the fall.

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It's even pretty in the winter.

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There's city life.

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We Asked Non-Finns React To Photos Of Finnish Stuff And Now They're All Jealous

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“You win, Finland.”

I sent 12 uncaptioned photographs of Finland (and other Finnish stuff) to BuzzFeed's New York, Berlin, Paris, and London offices and asked them to write down what they saw. This is what they said:

Mämmi, a traditional Easter dessert made with dark molasses and malted rye

Mämmi, a traditional Easter dessert made with dark molasses and malted rye

Maggy (London): "It looks like someone tore a liver out of a poor, innocent cow and covered it in milk."

Laura (London): "Hands off our Christmas pudding and brandy sauce."

Lauren (NY): "It looks like a slightly gelatinous brownie drowning in milk? I dig it."

Jim (London): "A heart attack on a plate."

Juliane (Berlin): "Mousse au chocolat, but I bet there's blood in there."

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Mignon eggs, almond-hazelnut nougat filled eggs that are eaten at Easter

Mignon eggs, almond-hazelnut nougat filled eggs that are eaten at Easter

Tom (London): "An enormous mini egg. Which... which would make it just an egg, I guess?"

Sarah (NY): "Egg inside an egg? Like Russian nesting dolls, but real eggs?"

Jamie (London): "A reverse Kinder Surprise."

Matt (London): "Nature just delivered what we all wanted: real chocolate eggs."

Robin (London): "OH SHIT YOU HAVE ACTUAL CHOCOLATE EGGS?! *books flight to Helsinki*"

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The Northern Lights

The Northern Lights

Ailbhe (London): "This is so pretty it looks like a desktop background! So magical."

Flo (London): "This is where Santa Claus lives, quite clearly."

Lauren (NY): "This is so magical, I still can't believe people get to experience this on the reg."

Tom (London): "Clearly Photoshopped."

Sarah (NY): "Is this... the Northern Lights? Or chem-trails?"

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15 Weird Ways To Exercise In Brisbane

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Laughing on a unicycle riding backwards in downward dog position while chasing a snitch.

Quidditch, City Botanic Gardens

Harry Potter fans, this is not a drill. Ride a broomstick, throw a quaffle, chase the snitch - fulfil your dreams. The good news is it only costs $2 a game, brooms are provided and they round out the session by downing beers at the Guild Bar.

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Mad Dance House, Brisbane CBD

Let Mad Dance House teach you how to pop, lock and drop it, with popping, locking, and krumping classes. A casual class is $18.80, or get unlimited classes for $27 a week.

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Ultimate Frisbee, various locations

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Ever wanted to play footy, soccer, basketball and everyone's favourite beach sport – throwing a frisbee – all at once? Join Brisbane's Ultimate Frisbee mixed league on Monday nights at various locations around the city. How can you resist with team names such as Risky Frisness and Discee Rascals?

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No Lights No Lycra, West End & Windsor

Dance like nobody is watching, because well – no one can see you. No Lights No Lycra is essentially a sweaty, sober disco with the lights out. It started in Melbourne and has spread worldwide. Join the movement on Tuesday nights in West End or Thursday night in Windsor. Entry is $5.

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People Try To Guess Philly Slang

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Jawn…maybe a tool of some sort?

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26 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week

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A participant of the traditional dirty pig festival wearing a Homer Simpson mask wallows in a slough near Hergisdorf, Germany, on May 25, 2015.

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A 2-month-old black howler monkey named Gael is nursed in the Rescue Center at the National Zoo of Managua, Nicaragua. The monkey was rescued by hunters before being brought to the center.

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Visitors marvel at the main chamber of Gaping Gill, the largest underground cavern in Britain naturally open to the surface, near Ingleton, northern England. At a depth of almost 100 meters from the surface, and with a volume comparable to the nave of York Minster, trips into Gaping Gill cavern are offered twice a year to members of the public.

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A jockey spurs the cows during Pacu Jawi in Padang, Indonesia. The traditional cow race is held annually in muddy rice fields to celebrate the end of the harvest season by the Minangkabau people. Jockeys grab the tails of the bulls and skate across the mud barefoot balancing on a wooden plank to show the strength of their bulls, which are later auctioned to buyers.

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Balloons featuring prominent world leaders are launched during a Group of Seven (G-7) protest by the international campaigning and advocacy organization "One" in front of Dresden, Germany's Church of Our Lady.

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Queen Elizabeth II is accompanied by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the Royal Gallery before the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, at the Palace of Westminster in London.

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An exhibitor leads her cow in the judging ring on the opening day of the Royal Bath and West Show in Somerset, England. First held in 1852, it is one of the oldest surviving agricultural shows in England and features livestock, agricultural machinery, trade stands, and locally produced food and drink.

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People take photos as workers remove the marquee from the Ed Sullivan Theater where the "Late Show With David Letterman" used to tape in New York City.

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Legoland employee Pete Goodchild puts finishing touches on a giant mosaic of Taylor Swift is revealed at The Legoland Windsor Resort on May 25, 2015, in Windsor, England.

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Mans Zelmerlow of Sweden reacts after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna.

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Speller Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, and speller Gokul Venkatachalam of St. Louis, Missouri, hold up a single trophy after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 28, 2015, in National Harbor, Maryland. Shivashankar and Venkatachalam were declared co-champions in a tie at the annual spelling competition.

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Dwight Howard of the Houston Rockets and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors go after the ball during game five of the Western Conference Finals of the 2015 NBA Playoffs at Oracle Arena on May 27, 2015, in Oakland, California.

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Classmates celebrate after receiving their degrees from the John F. Kennedy School of Government during the 364th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Nursing students in a vocational school take part in a graduation examination outside of the classroom in Baoji in China's Shaanxi province.

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Melinda Ellisor looks for clothing to give to a family of flood victims at Wimberley High School in Wimberley, Texas. Faculty and volunteers gathered at the school to organize flood relief supplies. Central Texas has been hit with severe weather, including catastrophic flooding and tornadoes, over the past several days.

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Houseboats are moored on a shrinking arm of the Oroville Lake reservoir which is now at 25 percent capacity as a severe drought continues to affect California. Local media is reporting that California officials are now looking to Australia for advice on how to deal with long term drought as the state enters its fourth year of severe drought.

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An Indian police officer uses a baton to disperse a protester during a demonstration in Srinagar. Indian police on Thursday detained dozens of protesting government employees in Srinagar as they attempted to reach the civil secretariat, which houses the office of Kashmir's chief minister and his colleagues, to demand their long pending arrears and a regularisation of temporary jobs.

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A flower placed by a relative in the hand of a victim of an attempted car theft, who was shot dead during the struggle, in Guatemala City. Local media reported that during the struggle, the father of the victim came out of their house nearby to defend his son with a gun and in the ensuing shoot out, the victim and three out of four of the suspected thieves died and one fled.

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Police officers catch fire after being hit by a Molotov cocktail during a protest to mark the eight-month anniversary of the Ayotzinapa students' disappearance in Mexico City. The students' disappearance on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, in the southwestern city of Iguala triggered massive protests in Mexico and calls for justice. Officials say they were abducted by corrupt police officers, who handed them over to a local drug gang.

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A protester sets up a barricade during a protest against Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term in Bujumbura, Burundi.

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People enjoy sprinkling themselves with coloured powder during an annual Festival of Colours in Moscow.

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A couple embraces outside the count centre in Dublin as Ireland holds a referendum on gay marriage. Ireland voted heavily in favor of allowing same-sex marriage in a historic referendum that marks a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Catholic country.

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Bayern Munich's David Alaba pours beer over coach Pep Guardiola after their final German first division Bundesliga soccer match of the season against FSV Mainz 05 in Munich.

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A man has his head tattooed during the Great British Tattoo Show in Alexandra Palace in north London.

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Christian Jacobs, 4, of Hertford, NC, lies on the grave of his father, Christopher James Jacob, during Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform a fly-over to begin the graduation and commencement ceremony for the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland.

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These Are The Natural Wonders You Need To See In 2015

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Each year, National Geographic gives readers from around the globe a chance to submit their travel photos. Last year alone, the contest had more than 18,000 entries.

From deer-breeding in Russia to diving with elephants of the coast of the Andaman Islands, take a look at a selection of entries from this year's competition categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments.

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"On an expedition at Todos Santos in South Baja California, Mexico, I was searching for big predators feeding on sardine baitballs, marlins, sharks, or tunas, but instead of it I found this little but very beautiful sea bird, the Hawaiian Petrel. It was feeding on crustaceans. Luckily I was able to capture the moment it submerge its head to feed on the tiny food source." –Alejandro Prieto

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"I had a tripod set up on Godafoss waterfall in Iceland last month. I used a 10-stop ND filter to capture the movement of the water as the sun set in the distance." –Ed Graham

Anisimov Sergey / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"Reindeer breeding is probably one of the rarest professions. In our region, in Yamal, there are approximately 14,000 men that live together with the herds of deers. The majority of these men are €Å“Nentsi€ by nationality and are representatives of native population. This photo was taken in Yamal region (Gydansky tundra), Russia. The temperature in April was -20 degrees below 0." –Anisimov Sergey

Mike Korostelev / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"This photo was taken near Andaman Islands while diving with a unique elephant, who likes to swim in the sea. It is one of the brightest experiences I have ever had." –Mike Korostelev

Ali Al-zaidi / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"Arbore tribe, Ethiopia. A little girl from a simple village treats and hold this little baby goat as one of her little siblings. This shows the connection between human and animal and how the animal response to the human. As well, in this simple village people raise the animal carefully so they be source of food and living" –Ali Al-zaidi

Douglas Croft / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"I went to Big Sur to photograph the gray whale migration from the cliffs but when I got there it was too foggy to even see the water. I decided to hike up the Baronda Trail to see if I could get above the clouds and this view was the gift I was given. Lupine carpeting the hills and blue skies for miles." –Douglas Croft

Tanya Houppermans / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"A large female hammerhead shark swims just over the seafloor off the coast of Bimini, Bahamas." –Tanya Houppermans

Anders Andersson / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"A bird's-eye view of tulip fields near Voorhout in the Netherlands, photographed with a drone in April 2015." –Anders Andersson

Guillermina Sogo / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"This photograph was taken during the first day of the celebration Rapas das Bestas, in Sabucedo, Galicia, Spain. It was raining heavily. About 250 horses were competing for their territory during the lock-up. Both the heat that flew out of the horses and the humidity provoked the steam that can be seen, converting it into a fog. It is an encounter where men and animals are equal." –Guillermina Sogo

Achmad Sumawijaya / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"A Pacu Jawi jockey bites the tail of a cow for speed acceleration." –Achmad Sumawijaya

David Howells / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"This image was captured as we were returning from a fruitless search for active humpback whales. We had given up, as the sun was setting, and were returning to harbour, when this young humpback started breaching right in front of us. Sometimes, you just get lucky." –David Howells

Sarah Alsayegh / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"During a workshop I [took] an aerial photography trip capturing the river of Thjorsa, largest river in Iceland." —Sarah Alsayegh

Ido Meirovich / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"Dogsledding in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland." —Ido Meirovich

Andrew George / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"Last night's aurora borealis in Iceland with moonlight." –Andrew George

Matthew Smith / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"I'm deep in a Cuban salt water mangrove lying belly down in two feet of murky water and looking at this through the view finder, the business end of a wild 2.5-meter American saltwater crocodile. Now my photography has led me into a few interesting situations in the past, but this takes the cake. I'm staying as still as can be, sweat beading on my forehead mumbling to myself, "Focus, frame, just get the shot, come on." One of the most exhilarating moments of my life!" –Matthew Smith

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"The cloud on the Mt Fuji changed the figure one after another. At this time, the soft fluff shape appeared. I finished this shot in strong contrast black-and-white photo to create this image." –Takashi

Tony Prince / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"We had just arrived at the north rim of the Grand Canyon where the skies were cloudy and there was drizzle in the air, putting a damper on our photographic enthusiasm. But as the sun set, it briefly slipped below the clouds and blessed us with a beautiful double rainbow, truly an awesome outdoor scene." –Tony Prince

Faisal Alateeqi / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"I took this photo during my trip to Vietnam in 2014 in the Sapa area." –Faisal Alateeqi

Daniele Bertin / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"A female Polar Bear walking towards us in Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago." –Daniele Bertin

Sam Morris / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest / Via travel.nationalgeographic.com

"Focusing on one single iceberg, I wanted to show the isolation of the landscape, set on a small volcanic island in the north Atlantic. Using a slow shutter to give a sense of the mystical beauty of Iceland. Photographed next to Jokulsarlon, a glacial lagoon which sends iceberg break-offs from the Vatnajokull Glacier out to sea. These large and beautiful blue sculptures of ice often end up on the volcanic black beaches of Iceland as a result of the strong tides at the coast."–Sam Morris

The grand prize is an eight-day expedition to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal. The National Geographic Traveler's Photo Contest will close on June 8 and the winners will be announced in early August.

Alejandro Prieto

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