Living the Digital Nomad Lifestyle With Lola Delabays

03/28/24 • 34 min

Big Photo Hunt Member Lola Delabays is a French photographer living the digital nomad lifestyle in Lombok, Indonesia, an island off the coast of Bali. Join us for our honest conversation about what it takes to be a traveling photographer, to earn a living abroad and to power through the ups and downs of the lifestyle. Recently, Lola's started teaching herself how to use AI - or actually teaching herself how easy it is to use AI. We talk about the benefits of Photoshop's new Generative Fill feature and what it means to all of us. Spoiler Alert: It's a powerful tool that we're all better off adopting to save time and improve our photography.

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Big Photo Hunt - Living the Digital Nomad Lifestyle With Lola Delabays

Transcript

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We're talking about this lifestyle in Lombok and like being a, you know, this trend of being a digital nomad. And like a lot of people I was inspired by when I wanted to work online and travel the world. Now they are almost all like they all settled somewhere and they are all now saying they were really close to burnout or they had a burnout. And I think, yeah, it's important to kind of break this fake reality, because sometimes I feel like people that share the