Posts under ‘photography’

Welcome back! You seem to like this blog. Why not share your favorite articles with your friends on Facebook and/or give it a Stumble? Thanks!I thought it was high time I wrapped up what I did on my June New York trip. You already know I stayed at the Pod Hotel, ate at Thai 51, [...]

It’s probably a good thing I travel solo, because one of my favorite subjects to photograph is animals (and birds and sealife).  Not truly wildlife photos, like wolves or grizzlies or gorillas in the wild–I’m way too chicken for that–but whatever animals I happen across.  So in New Orleans, I took photos of the mules [...]

Up until last year, the only camera I brought with me when I traveled was my Nikon Coolpix 885, a 2001 model that was practically an antique by the time I decided I needed to upgrade.  It took perfectly fine photos for 4″ x 6″ prints, but once I started my travel blog and started [...]

Travelers love Ziploc bags.  Oh yes, we do. They have so many wonderful uses.  We have to pack those 3 oz bottles of liquids in them, and they’re good for containing anything that might leak in your luggage.  You can use them as a doggie bag for meal leftovers, as an organizational tool, and if [...]

There are far more positives to traveling solo than negatives, in my opinion, but one of the downsides of traveling solo is that quite often, my travel photos are missing a key ingredient:  Me.  Tens of thousands of solo travelers have compensated for this limitation by perfecting what is known as the “arm stretch method”–holding [...]