About the Photo Tourist

The Photo Tourist is about traveling and photography and what happens when they meet. It’s about destinations and learning, enjoying and frustrating fellow-travelers — maybe with the occasional equipment, lodging, transportation, or activity review. The Photo Tourist combines narrative and featured photographs by Rick Collier.

Rick Collier is a photographer and writer with a worldwide portfolio. Over three decades he has traveled the world and developed a unique eye and voice to express perspectives on learning and experiencing divergent cultures, histories, and “traveler’s tales.” His photographic work features travel, destination, candid, landscape, nature, and underwater scenes and subjects. Rick often works in partnership with his wife, travel writer Nancy Bauer. They are both available for local or worldwide assignments.

Copyright and Use

The contents of thePhotoTourist web site and all its pages are copyright © Rick Collier, RickCollier.com, RickCollierImagery.com, and/or thePhotoTourist.com. Works by other authors on these pages may also be copyright to the original author of the post or comment. Personal (noncommercial) use and sharing of these materials is welcomed, based on Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, according to the terms below. If you are in doubt, please feel free to contact the authors by using the “contact” link on this site. We will respond quickly and would love to work with you.

All commercial rights are reserved. Images and text from this site may not be reproduced, altered, modified, or used in any way intended to support any commercial or profit-making enterprise. It is our policy to pursue copyright violators and defend our copyright vigorously; if caught, you will be billed a minimum amount of 15 times the normal commercial use fees. If you are making money in any way from a site using our content either as your own or to attract traffic (including for click-based advertising), then you are violating our copyright.

Purely personal, nonprofit use is welcomed. Images and text may be used for purely personal use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License as long as they meet all of the following conditions: The images or text must incorporate and prominently display the copyright © notice and trademark of Rick Collier, RickCollier.com, RickCollierImagery.com, or thePhotoTourist.com; materials posted on a web site or blog must incorporate a prominent link back to the original content on thePhotoTourist.com, RickCollier.com, or RickCollierImagery.com; and the images or text may not be modified, altered, or reproduced in any way (except that text may of course be excerpted, with appropriate link-back and attribution).

Most not-for-profit or public service uses are also welcomed. Please contact the author / copyright holder using the contact form on this web site.

Purchase or Licensing

To be fair, our prices are quite reasonable. Almost everything on this site may be bought or licensed for use (without copyright watermarks or attribution) by contacting the author or purchasing directly from one of our affiliate sites.

Contact Us!

We welcome your comments and would love to hear from you. If you are in any doubt and would like to use our stuff, please do reach out and contact us. Please do drop us a line using the contact form on this site.