Automotive Traveler Is the Web's Newest Destination for Exclusive Spy Shots of Future Vehicles

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(1888PressRelease) July 30, 2008 - There are literally hundreds of automotive web sites posting spy photos of camouflaged prototypes of future production vehicles. Automotive Traveler, an automotive adventure travel-themed web site knows this and has set itself apart from the competition, posting exclusive photos taken by its own editors, and published exclusively first on automotivetraveler.com.

“One of the great things about living in California,” says Automotive Traveler Editorial Director Richard Truesdell, “Is the huge amount of automotive testing that goes on here, especially in the summer time in the deserts, where temperatures habitually reach 126 degrees or more. Almost all of the world's vehicle manufacturers come here to test from June to September.”

Truesdell, whose automotive images have appeared in magazines in the United States, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Portugal, Brazil, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Australia over the last 15 years, has been shooting automobiles since 1969 when he started with a Yashica 124 G twin-lens reflex. Today, he shoots exclusively with a Nikon D200 with the image-stabilized 18-200 mm zoom lens.

“While some photographers use very long lenses, by keeping a low profile, and really knowing the territory, I find that a 200 mm lens is all I need,” says Truesdell. “The less gear you carry, the better it is. I keep things simple and by shooting everything RAW, with a 10 mega pixel camera, it's rare that I fail to get the shot I want. And with Nikon's Capture NX software, I can almost always bring out the important details, even on heavily camouflaged cars.”

“In the summer time I go up to the test areas in the desert one day a week when I'm not traveling on assignment and having done this for many years, I have a pretty good idea of where to find prototypes testing. The engineers follow a pretty set routine. I try to fly under the radar, stealth is my best weapon, and I really try hard not to get in the way of the engineers. They're doing a job and coming up here just a day at a time gives me a tremendous sense of respect for the job they do, making the cars we buy as bulletproof as possible.”

Automotive Traveler is almost unique among automotive web sites in that it posts only its own exclusive photos; it does not post photos taken by other spy photographers posted on other sites. “I think there's something of a grey area with all this,” says Truesdell. “At Automotive Traveler, the reason that we post our own exclusive spy photos, and encourage other web sites and bloggers to republish our images, is that it drives new traffic to Automotive Traveler. We hope that new visitors can view all of unique and eclectic automotive and travel content that we produce, like our daily listing of gas card offers. As long as other web sites and bloggers provide proper attribution, don't try to conceal our identifying watermark, and provide links back to the source at Automotive Traveler, we're cool with almost anyone reposting our images.”

Editors who would like to syndicate content from Automotive Traveler should contact Editorial Director Richard Truesdell directly at +1 714 981 2725 or via E-mail.

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