Dallas-born photographer Gray Malin’s job sure looks like a lot of fun. He has spoken to interviewers of a professional schedule of “one week at home, one week on the road,” with the biweekly trips typically involving hanging out of a doorless helicopter above one or another of the world’s most beautiful beaches, snapping pictures. His seventh photo book, Coastal, released this May, presents a selection of the images he’s gathered on such excursions, from Hawaii and Australia to Michigan, where Malin spent childhood summers, and Southern California, where he now lives with his family.The slogan of Malin’s thriving company, which sells printed puzzles, beach towels, rugs, and furniture in addition to framed photos and coffee-table art books, is “Make every day a getaway.” If…The post How Gray Malin Built a Photography Empire on the Dream of a Basic Getaway appeared first on Texas Monthly.