Simple tips for Better Travel Pictures

Do your friends and relatives beg to see your travel pictures? Or do they suddenly get very busy when you mention a slide show?
Follow this blog to find out how to take, share, and preserve wonderful memories with the photos from your special trip. These tips are for the traveler who uses a simple point and shoot digital camera and keeps it on the automatic setting most of the time.



Monday, February 13, 2012

Look for the Signs

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a few words are worth a picture too.  Often travelers have pictures of themselves in front of attraction signs to help them remember where they were. The photos are taken to assist in telling the story of the trip.  Not as many people are likely to take photos of road signs, but these, too, can tell a story.
We were intrigued and by the signs in Australia and New Zealand.  The language was English but the message and pictures definitely puts the setting in Australia.  The deer were all on venison farms, but the kangaroo and wallaby crossing signs were fun substitutes.



 In other cases, the message was the same as it would be in the US, but the words were different, giving another cultural slant. Yield and Pedestrian Crossing :
 
We also noted (and obeyed) the direction to :"Look Left or Look Right" at the city curbs in Sydney and Melbourne.  Evidently, Americans not only drive on the wrong side of the road, they also look the wrong way.

Last month my Mother and I found a sign that let us know we were walking in the Sonoran desert in Australia: