Taking Photos on Your Holiday

Almost everyone likes to take photographs of their vacation – to show to family, friends & co-workers when they return. Pictures taken on vacation take you on a trip back in time to a place where you may have seen unbelievable sights, done exciting or memorable things, celebrations, and time spent with people who are very important to you.

A good investment for your memory-collecting is to buy a good digital camera. A digital camera has the capacity of taking many more pictures than a regular camera and if you are planning on taking a lot of pictures, you can also purchase extra memory cards.

Since photographs are a part of your personal history, you need to take the best shots possible and prepare your camera and yourself for your holiday. One of the best ways to do this is to take some pictures before leaving home to check and make sure that your camera is in perfect working order.

Once you are on your vacation and taking pictures, you just need to take the usual precautions:

* Don’t take pictures directly into the sunlight


* Make sure you have your flash feature turned on in dark surroundings

* Take a look at what is beside, behind or in front of your targeted picture – you don’t want an object looking like it is sticking out of someone’s head or have litter & garbage showing in your picture

* Be sure to have a focal point for each picture

* Do try using the timer and getting into the picture yourself

Now . . . . go and enjoy making memories!

Museum in English & German, Museo in Spanish & Italian, Musee in French

The definition of the word MUSEUM ~ ‘A museum houses a collection, public or private, of items relating to one or more fields of art, culture, science and technology .’

With the summer weather here, many people are now taking their annual vacations. When visiting a different country, one of the most popular things to do is to visit a museum. It gives one a view of the culture and art of a bygone period or perhaps a part of the present and future. It can be a specific museum featuring a theme, such as a “Museum of Flight”, a Museum with some of the greatest art in the world, like the Louvre, or a Museum that covers an enormous array of artifacts, like the Smithsonian.

A wonderful museum to visit this summer is our very own Royal British Columbia Museum, in Victoria, B.C. This beautiful Museum is home to many galleries, such as the First Peoples exhibits, the Natural History exhibits and the Modern History exhibits. There are also ‘Visiting Exhibits’ from time to time, which are a special draw. Visiting Exhibits from past years have been ancient artifacts from the Royal British Museum of London, precious treasures & artifacts from Egypt, Dinosaur bones from China, historical items of beauty from Tibet, some of the recovered items from the Titanic and the amazing art & technology of Leonardo da Vinci. Coming in 2011 will be China’s famous Terracotta Warriors.

So . . . . where are you heading off to for your summer vacation this year? Think about touring the museums of the places you go to – it will give you a deeper feeling for the culture and art of the people of that country.