Photography

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Every dispatch is carried by its pictures. These are the photographers who made them. Names link to the photographer.

Rafting the Futaleufú

Chile · Patagonia

Hero, the turquoise river through pampas grassCamille Rousseau
Terminator, a Class V rapidWarren Williams · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
The ferry south toward ChaiténCamille Rousseau
Peuma Lodge, above the valleyCamille Rousseau
The river through its gorgeIgnacio Mendía · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The wood-fired hot tub at duskCamille Rousseau
The river and valleyCamille Rousseau

Bled, the Faded Fairytale

Slovenia · Lake Bled

Hero, the view down from the castleMaya Okonkwo
The room's balcony, over the water to the castleMaya Okonkwo
The town behind the lakeMaya Okonkwo
The pletna boats on a grey morningMaya Okonkwo
Bled Castle on its cliffMaya Okonkwo
The Bled cream cake, kremšnitaAtai Anarbek

The Skeleton Coast

Namibia · Skeleton Coast

A hull going to pieces below the dunesJoshua Kettle · Unsplash
The Benguela fog over the dunesJoshua Kettle · Unsplash
Hero, the Cape fur seal colony at Cape CrossSeiji · Unsplash
Where the dune sea pours into the AtlanticJoshua Kettle · Unsplash
One vehicle on the fog-bound beachNicolas Cortois · Unsplash
The long road back, into nothingAndrew Svk · Unsplash
The gravel road east into DamaralandAmar Hussain · Unsplash

The Desert That Floods

Brazil · Lençóis Maranhenses

Hero, aerial over the dune fieldLucas Lagrimante · Unsplash
São Luís, the tiled colonial portJLPizzol · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Down the Preguiças by open boatDione Film · Unsplash
The last of it on foot, over the sandLuiza Carvalho · Unsplash
A lagoon the colour of bottle glassgabriel xu · Unsplash
A figure at the water's edgeRoi Dimor · Unsplash
An hour before dark, the field turns to goldTatiana Zanon · Unsplash
The dunes meeting the coast near AtinsLéo Castro · Unsplash
The bedsheet folds, to the horizonMarcus Dall Col · Unsplash
A deep-blue lagoonPatrícia Cassol Pereira · Unsplash

The Amalfi Coast, Slowly

Italy

Hero, Positano at duskSebastian Leonhardt · Unsplash
The coast, from the waterTom Podmore · Unsplash
A lemon terrace, late in the daySara Abilova · Unsplash
Everything here is reached by stairShpëtim Ujkani · Unsplash
The hour the coast hands back to the tableAlain Rouiller · Unsplash
Ravello, above the seaOwen Roth · Unsplash
The Faraglioni, off CapriSoren Christensen · Unsplash

Fjords from the Water

Norway

Hero, the GeirangerfjordIsabel Moreau
Bryggen, over the Bergen waterfrontIsabel Moreau
The Nærøyfjord, at its narrowestIsabel Moreau
A quay on the waterJonathan Saleh · Unsplash
At water level, on the AurlandsfjordBenjamin Davies · Unsplash
The Geirangerfjord, from the road aboveIsabel Moreau

The Bernese Oberland

Switzerland

Hero, the Lauterbrunnen valleyRobin Ulrich
The Staubbach, falling clear of the cliffLeo Visions
The valley floor, toward StechelbergMichael Lämmli
Mürren, on its shelf above the valleyPatrick Federi
The cog railway, below the EigerPiotr Guzik · Unsplash
The Aletsch, from the JungfraujochErol Ahmed

Lisbon on Foot

Portugal

Hero, the rooftops of Alfama at duskBenjamin Pazdernik · Unsplash
The 28 tram in the BaixaAayush Gupta · Unsplash
The Bica funicularClaudio Schwarz · Unsplash
Pink Street, Cais do SodréSara Darcaj · Unsplash
Pastéis de nata, fresh from the ovenDiogo Nunes · Unsplash
The tower at Belém, at sunsetEdoardo Bortoli · Unsplash

Getting Lost in Fez

Morocco

Hero, the medina rooftops under the hillsMaya Okonkwo
The medina lanesMaya Okonkwo
The souk, freight by donkeyMaya Okonkwo
A winter vegetable marketMaya Okonkwo
The Nejjarine wood museumMaya Okonkwo
A carpet shopMaya Okonkwo
The Chouara tanneryMaya Okonkwo
A studded doorMaya Okonkwo

The Empire of Grass

Mongolia

Hero, a ger on the North Tamir valley steppeDal Tamiraa · Pexels
Erdene Zuu monastery, KharkhorinArtHouse Studio · Pexels
A lone ger on the Orkhon, at duskArtHouse Studio · Pexels
A rider on the open grassArtHouse Studio · Pexels
Stupas on the steppe, below the sacred groundBYB BYB · Pexels
The road west into the AltaiJulia Volk · Pexels
Kazakh eagle hunters, Bayan-ÖlgiiJulia Volk · Pexels

About

Meridian Dispatch

Lake Bled, the heroJohnny Africa
Ladakh, in the Indian HimalayaAshish Kumar Senapati
Salar de Uyuni, BoliviaMatheus Oliveira · Unsplash

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