Thank you for your interest in Positive Light and the Crowdsourced Travel project. Positive Light will be a new photography book meant to show the stunning beauty of Bangladesh to the world.
As part of the larger Crowdsourced Travel project, Positive Light is also a travel photography website that will harness the energy of photographers of Bangladesh – amateur, professional** or hobbyist — into one place. The goal is to accumulate the country’s best travel photography into a single resource library for usage in promoting Bangladesh internationally. All images published here will be licensed under a Creative Commons attribution license (CC BY), which means that anyone doing tourism related work in Bangladesh can republish these images on their website without breaking copyright rules. Other than usage in the Bangladesh: Bradt Travel Guide and Positive Light photography book, no further print resolution (ie high resolution) use of the images will be permitted without the photographer’s written permission.
To fund production of the book, we are seeking funds via crowdfunding website Startsomegood.com. Instead of seeking out sponsors, we are relying on people like you (i.e. the Bangladesh community at home and abroad) to each contribute small amounts to the project. Funds raised in this project will also provide the venture capital necessary to start Crowdsourced Travel, a social enterprise whose goal is to create new economic opportunities in undertravelled destinations such as Bangladesh, by involving the resources of its community.
At the moment there are two publication destinations for the result of this project — the first will be the Positive Light photo book, a coffee-table style, 100-page, large format photography book that will be published using online bookseller Blurb.com. Selected photos will also be published in the 2nd edition of Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide.
To find out more about the various projects of travel authors Mikey Leung and Belinda Meggitt, please look us up at the following venues:
http://bangladeshtraveller.com
http://www.facebook.com/BangladeshBradtTravelGuide
**Professionals are also welcome to submit, but we advise reading the submission guidelines first.
