Holiday Travel Tip: Vaseline on Your Camera

Merry Christmas! Holiday Tip #6 is a fun photography trick I stole from our Turn Your Pictures into Cash Program. There’s an entire chapter in our program on cool, unique ways to create lens filters using everyday household items like pantyhose, cellophane, and shower...

Holiday Tip: Your Bathtub as a Photo Studio

Over the years, we’ve collected a number of travel tips that I’ve shared with you in this e-letter. Tips like how to save wet electronics with rice… how to remove lint with airline luggage tags… and how to get free upgrades on rental cars. So it’s become a tradition...

Pictures from Thailand and How to Break an Egg with One Hand

Thai cooking instructor Yui held up her hand and crisply snapped her fingers. “You want to crack an egg with one hand? It’s just like snapping your fingers.” Snap. As the slippery noodles soaked up their sauce in my wok, my Pad Thai was almost complete. All it needed...

Thailand Report: How to Make a Thai Smile

Rich Wagner here, writing to you from Bangkok, Thailand on the first day of our photo expedition. I’m happy to report that the easiest and fastest way to make a Thai person smile is to simply point a camera at him! Yesterday I took over 800 pictures. It’s...

Video Tip: Photographing Buildings and Monuments

Rich and Bonnie are in Thailand this week with nine of our readers exploring and photographing both Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I’ll send pictures and reports from their trip next week.  In the meantime, below is a video tip Rich made for us on our last photo expedition...

December Photo Challenge Theme

December’s Photo Challenge theme is: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice. When I think about December, I’m sometimes overwhelmed by the whirlwind of activity that takes place. Endless shopping…cooking… wrapping gifts – you name it. It seems like there’s always...

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