Gallery: Photographers' Secrets

Inverting the Taj Mahal: Abrahm Lustgarten reinvented this Indian landmark by photographing its reflection.  

Only One Way to Go—Straight Down: In the Copper Canyon, you have to work (i.e. climb) to get a great point-of-view shot.  

Making Use of the Mind's Eye: Abrahm Lustgarten navigates a hectic Tibetan celebration and manages to capture this quiet example of the country's fragile personality.  

Autumnal Exposures: With fall comes the colors that all budding photographers want to capture.  

Serendipity in the Dominican Republic: Skip Brown accomplished this illusion while floating on his back in the Caribbean. It may look hard. But then, that's the point.  

Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The best shot sometimes requires a fair amount of sacrifice, resistance to vertigo, and empathy for your suffering subject matter. Here, Abrahm gives us the goods.  

Escaping Maverick's: A 25-foot wave (the Everest of the surfing circuit), wetsuit-clad daredevil, a pair of jet skis, a film crew, and one very seasick photographer on very rough seas. But he got the shot.