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Relaunching My Travel Photography Site — and the Story Behind It

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Wilko van de Kamp
Aug 08, 2025
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Amsterdam Canal by Wilko van de Kamp Fine Photo Art

Somewhere between writing books, running marathons, and teaching courses, I lost track of where this all began. Not entirely, but maybe a little bit. Just enough for it to sit on the back burner longer than I intended: I’m talking about my travel photography site. This site is where it all started, and it has quietly existed in the background all this time, like an old friend I kept meaning to call. The truth is, it wasn’t gone — just neglected. The process of uploading new photographs had become so clunky and outdated that it slowly ground to a halt.

And then I caught myself repeating the same advice I’ve given to so many of my students:1

If your process is broken or outdated, how much opportunity are you missing out on?

So, I decided to change it all up.

Over the past several months, I’ve rebuilt nearly all my websites from scratch2, and moved away from a third-party platform I’ve loved (and promoted) for years. My photography site, howev…

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