How we work

Last reviewed and updated: July 12, 2026

What this publication is

Traveling Goose Photography is an independent editorial journal about the craft of travel photography, owned and published by Traveling Goose Photography LLC of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It publishes long-form essays on technique and fieldwork — photographing from aircraft windows, choosing seats for the light, working in airports, desert dawns, packing a camera kit. It is written by one person, June “Goose” Aldaco. It sells nothing: no tours, no workshops, no prints through this site, no gear, and no travel services. It takes no bookings and brokers nothing.

Accuracy and sourcing

Where an essay states a checkable fact — a security rule, a battery regulation, a bird migration pattern, the physics of a cabin window — that fact is verified against public and official resources before publication: federal aviation and transportation authorities, wildlife agencies, weather and astronomical services. Each essay closes with a “Source notes” list naming the resources used, so a reader can find and check them independently. The notes are deliberately rendered as plain text rather than links; searching the listed title takes you to the current official version rather than to whatever URL existed on our publication date.

Where an essay describes preference or personal method — and much of a craft journal is exactly that — the writing is framed so you can tell. First-person accounts describe things the author has actually done.

Corrections

Errors get fixed, visibly. A substantive correction is made in the essay with a dated note; a typo is fixed quietly. To report either, use the contact form and choose “A correction” — correction mail is read first.

Independence and the no-brands rule

No airline, airport operator, booking platform, tourism board, or camera manufacturer has any relationship with this journal — financial, editorial, or otherwise. We accept no free travel, no review units, no press trips, and no payment for coverage. As an editorial rule, essays do not name commercial brands at all: not carriers, not booking services, not equipment makers. The craft taught here works regardless of whose logo is on the fuselage or the camera strap, and our independence is simplest to prove when there is nothing to disclose.

Advertising and funding disclosure

The journal is funded by its publisher, Traveling Goose Photography LLC. To cover hosting and production costs it may display clearly-labeled third-party advertising served by an advertising network. Where ads appear, they are visually separate from the essays and marked as advertising. Advertisers do not see essays before publication, cannot influence what is written, and cannot buy mentions, placements, or reviews — there are no sponsored posts and no affiliate links anywhere on the site. If the way this journal is funded ever changes, this section will be updated before the change takes effect.

About the imagery

The plates that head the essays are original illustrations, drawn for this journal, and they are the property of Traveling Goose Photography LLC. They are editorial artwork: they depict the situations the essays describe, and they do not depict — and are not photographs of — any identifiable company, aircraft livery, product, or person. The author's commissioned photography is licensed separately and is not distributed through this site.

Drafting tools

Essays start as field notes, contact sheets, and margin scribbles. Software — including AI-assisted writing and illustration tools — may be used in drafting, editing, and producing artwork, the way a light table or a spell-checker would be. Every published page is reviewed, fact-checked against its listed sources, and approved by the human publisher, who is responsible for all of it.

What readers can expect

• Original long-form writing — nothing scraped, spun, or syndicated.
• Source notes on every essay naming the resources used.
• Headlines that describe the essay, not bait for it.
• A contact page answered by the person who wrote the words.
• A hard line between editorial content and any advertising.