Travel & Adventure Photography School · Robert Massey- Photographer

Create Epic Images on your Next Photography Road Trip

·27 min

Episode 100 starts with real gratitude. Robert Massey sounds honestly surprised to have reached the hundredth episode, then turns that energy toward one of his favorite things to get out there and do: photography based road trips. The idea is simple enough. If you want stronger travel and adventure photos, the road trip itself has to be part of the creative work, not just the driving between places. He keeps it loose, which helps. The episode moves from why road trips are worth doing into what to plan, which tools can help, and how to stay safer once the route starts shifting. Google Maps, Road Trippers, and AllTrails come up as practical tools for building a route, spotting points of interest, and dealing with terrain you may not know yet. Less wandering around, more giving yourself a real chance at the shot. For the photography side, he points to PhotoPills and Planet for planning around the sun, moon, Milky Way, meteor showers, shadows, buildings, and mountaintops. That sounds nerdy in the best way. It means you can show up with a plan instead of hoping the light, sky, and landscape happen to cooperate. Safety gets real attention too. Before leaving, Massey recommends sharing your route and timeline with someone who expects check-ins and can act if they stop hearing from you. If the plan changes in a serious way, send a text, a satellite message, or another clear update so that person is not relying on old information. His shared Google Doc idea is plain and useful: keep the trip timeline in one place, update big route changes there, and give someone else a reliable place to check if something goes wrong. The episode stays encouraging without getting dreamy about it. Massey wants listeners to feel the pull of the open road, but he keeps coming back to the basics: know your route, plan your light, use your tools, and tell someone where you are. The close is personal, with thanks for the hundred episodes, a pointer to Instagram and his website, and an open door for future ideas, feedback, stories, and conversations. It plays like a spoken-through checklist for photographers who want the trip to feel big without letting the logistics go fuzzy.

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A practical road-trip guide that connects photography planning with timing, safety, and what to do with the images afterward.

Episode 100 treats a photography road trip as planning work as much as travel. Robert Massey keeps the emphasis on the choices behind a good shot: picking routes with intent, checking tools like Google Maps, Road Trippers, AllTrails, PhotoPills, and Planet, and thinking through…

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Plan a photography road trip with less guesswork.

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