from the photo editor

photo
contest
honorable
mention
One of Lori’s
­f avorites: a
clothesline in
Cuba by Carmen
Nance Sanders.

Traveling Through Your Eyes

i’ve been more places than my passport has stamps.

carmen nance sanders; “new online”: courtesy orion; ty sawyer; kate mcredmond
I spend my days working with some of the most talented
travel photographers anywhere, and from the confines of
my desk, I travel the world with them, helping plan their
journeys and discussing the best visuals through which to
illustrate a story. When the trip ends, we’re left with fantas-
tic souvenirs: hundreds, sometimes thousands, of amazing
photos. That’s when the hardest part of my job begins. How
do you choose the best? Is it content? Composition? Light?
Depth of field? ­Color? A magic combination of all these?
When I think I have those rules figured out, an image
comes along that breaks the rules and blows me away.
It should come as no surprise that judging the ­islands
­Photo Contest is Christmas morning for me. As the
­entries pour in (more than 3,400 this year!), each is like
­another stamp in my passport as I travel the world with you,
the reader. This year the judging panel included islands
contributing photographer/guest judge Jad ­Davenport,
who offered special insight on just how challenging it
can be to capture these island moments. Enjoy 2009’s
winning images and see if they take you someplace new.
— lori barbely, islands photo editor, editor@islands.com

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