Featured Publication: Literary Traveler
Bonnie Caton tells us about this week’s featured publication, Literary Traveler, an online subscription magazine. This publication is looking for articles about a literary person or place with an environmentally friendly message.
How to Look Thinner Photo Tip #2: How to Stand
This full-body pose is the quickest way to look slimmer in photos – and it works on almost everyone. Just flip through a beauty magazine and you’ll see models and celebrities doing it on every page. Here’s how to do it, step by step: ** 1.) A person’s body positioned at a 45-degree angle appears…
How to Look Thinner in Photos: Double Chins
Yesterday I told you about our new e-book: How to Look 10 Pounds Thinner and 20 Years Younger in Every Photo You Take. And I said the tips inside are so good, I’ve pulled three of them out for this week’s newsletter to run as a special How-to-Look-Good-in-Photographs series. Today is the first of that…
Photo Tip: Using Perspective to Create Humor
This month’s photo challenge theme Laughable Photographable has brought in a lot of funny pictures. Several of them, I noticed, have one thing in common. And that one thing is actually the element that makes the photograph funny. It’s the photographer’s unusual perspective. What I mean by “perspective” is the photographer’s vantage point… or where…
Photo Tip: How to Edit Your Photos in 3 Minutes Flat
Every image needs some processing before you can sell it as stock. Think of it like taking photos with film. When you shoot film, it doesn’t come out of the camera as a finished print. What you have is the negative, which needs to be processed. Digital files straight out of your camera are like…
The Mysterious Migrating Spoonbills of Houston
by Tracy Cheney – photos by Greg Lavaty Every major city flaunts a zoo and a plethora of museums and theaters. But how many boast a rookery of mating spoonbills ringed by a moat of patrolling alligators? Perched at the bottom of the continent on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, here in the…
Be One with Nature in Calgary’s Best Kept Secret
by Brian LewisEdworthy Park, with its Douglas Fir Trail, is one of Calgary’s best kept secrets. It borders the west side of the inner city and comprises 70 acres of pristine, natural parkland. It’s a gem that you don’t want to miss. Historically, various areas of it were used as a bison kill site, tipi…
Sailing Down the Nile in Beautiful Silence
by Trent RockwoodIt is very rare in this era of worldwide big-business tourism that you get to see what the world’s famous tourist sites were like before the advent of airplanes, tour buses, parking lots, and gift shops. We can only imagine when the pyramids, the Acropolis, or the Great Wall of China were approached…
Soaking Up the Mineral Hot Springs in Los Angeles
by Tracy CheneyPoised as it is on the Pacific rim of fire, California is a geothermal hotbed. Underground volcanic activity spurts up as mineral hot springs from hillsides up and down the length of the state. For eons, Native American families enjoyed soaking in the gurgling springs and pools. Later, 19th century travelers refreshed themselves…
Five Must-Haves to Keep You Safe on Your Next Road Trip
by Sally KivowitzEarly one morning, in the middle of a snowstorm, I set out from my new home in Nazlini, Arizona to attend a Christmas party in Flagstaff. Being cut from the car and life-flighted to the Flagstaff Medical Center was not a part of the plan. Fortunately, there were people who stopped to help…
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