Avoiding Hotel Surcharges and Nine Odd Uses for Toothpaste
Hotels love to add surcharges onto every long-distance call you make from your room. And I love to sneakily avoid them. Here’s how: When you’ve got more than one long-distance call to make from your hotel room, don’t hang up between calls. Instead, wait for the person on the other end of the line to…
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Matador Travel is a hub of nine different e-zines wrapped into one online travel community. Each separate arm of the site has its own writer’s guidelines and each is on the lookout for fresh content. There’s a travel article style for everyone here, from trip ideas to traveling and studying abroad, travel tips, nightlife, travel…
Correct Underexposed Photos in Lightroom
Last week we took a look at adjusting underexposed photos in Photoshop with Levels and Curves. As promised, today we’ll look at the Lightroom rescue remedy for those underexposed shots… The first thing you will have to do is import your photo into Lightroom (for instructions on how to do that click here). I’ve chosen…
Fast Lenses: What It Means When You Have a Fast Lens
Last week’s photography expedition in Paris, France, did NOT start well for me. On Day One, I accidentally left my camera bag unzipped and when I picked it up off the floor, my camera rolled out. It wasn’t a hard roll but it must have hit the ground just right because it broke my lens. …
Photo Tip: Brighten Up
You’ll remember we covered how your camera reads light and interprets what it sees to achieve “middle gray” and proper exposure. You can find that article in our archives, here. Most of the time your camera is fairly accurate. But what happens if you have a once-in-a-lifetime shot that’s underexposed? Is there a way to…
May’s Photo Challenge Theme: Game On!
May is officially Physical Fitness Month. Which means that the education world (at least here in the U.S.) celebrates national physical fitness and sport. With this and the upcoming controversial Summer Olympics in Beijing taking top slots in the news these days, I thought we could turn our creative attention to sport — hence this…
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Washingtonian Magazine’s no-nonsense, no-fluff style wins over the hearts of 150,000 highly educated, well-paid readers each month. It’s been around since 1965, and ever under the same editor, Jack Limpert. Through over 40 years of publication, the magazine brings Washington-area residents and visitors meaty articles about art, culture, food and dining, travel, news, politics, jobs,…
Hotel Monaco, Denver
Here’s the wine cellar at Denver’s Hotel Monaco. We’re going to have our Food Writing Workshop here, in the hotel where one of the best chefs of Denver works. And you bet we’ll be testing the food and wine. You know, for inspiration. [Editor’s Note: Learn more about opportunities to profit from your travels (and…
A Reader’s Question: 100 Articles in 7 Months
Roy Stevenson has published more than 100 articles in the 7 months since attending our workshop. And it seems he’s creating quite a stir among our readers.
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