Some tips to take "photos" when you travel

How many times did you see a "Beautiful" scene when you travel in a car? Insurance, the same amount of times you wanted to take a photograph... and I guess you didn't achieve. Well, I have a answer (if you has a question).

WHAT DO I DO?

I have done a list for you whit usually problems and its solutions. Let's go !

1.- Are you traveling? … Put a Belt in your camera!

First, if you are traveling and you like to take "photos" you should have your camera (very) close to you. You can put a "belt" to your camera (in all case at your cellphone). In this way you can take your camera without fear that it will not fall.

2.- How much time do you have? … Try to get your camera close to you!

Imagine you are walking in a park. You see a "puppy" sitting. You get your camera and take the photo. Very Easy!  Now, imagine you are traveling in a car... How much time do you have to get your camera and take the photo before the car and the place will be out?
If you have you camera close to you, you gain time for take the scene. 

3.- How many photos do you can take? … Always press the shutter button before take it!

New cameras (the most of them) need a short time to take the photo after you press shutter button. You can maintain slightly pressed the button, enough that your camera focus and take quickly the photo when press totally the button.

4.- There is something in front of the scene that clogs?... wait or take it!

Well, if you can move to you to other place it´s excellent! But if you can’t, you traveling in a car and also trees, people, lamppost and others things pass in front of you and your camera… It’s disgusting!
You can do two things:
            Wait. You should wait for things get out. Calculate the moment when these things don’t appear in the scene. Also, you can wait to pass back out there… if this is possible.
            Take it. If you don’t have time and the scene threatens to disappear you should take the photo (one after another) without fear… maybe one (of all them) it’s OK!

I tried that all cats turn to see the camera..

... until I did!

5.- Take, take, take, take … Take lots of pictures!

A technique unusual is to take lots of photos. Perhaps most of them look bad, but sometimes they acquire unique attributes or unexpected and fascinating results.

A picture of lamps in the street

I hope this helps a little. I have just one last recommendation: Have fun taking pictures! This should be fun, should not it?

A little of my friend...

Karla Orduña is the most curious, imaginative and generous person that I know. She grew up in Poza Rica, Veracruz. She liked to teach to others persons and when she was a child, she played at being a teacher. When she used to play, she imagined teddy bears were students and she taught them. Nowadays, she is a teacher (recently graduated), teaching in a school in Zacate Colorado and take classes of Master degree. Karla spends her time in prepare her classes and improve her knowledge.  

However, Teaching isn’t her only hobby, she likes drawing, too, and I like this part of her life. Karla creates beautiful pictures. She is very creative and dreamy: She can visualize an image and paint it. When she doesn’t spend time teaching, she paints all day.

I love her creativity. I remember when a day she saw a big stone and said that the stone had a form of a frog! Karla took the stone at her home. A day later, she painted the stone and drew a face of a frog on the stone. Really the stone had a face of a frog! I’m very proud of her. I’m happy talking to her because she always has something to tell. She touches the sky with her Imagination. We need to have "Imagination" for all or What do you think?

Results of had a great imagination.

Take a Beautiful Picture

How many times we have seen beautiful pictures? Why are they "beautiful"?

I guess that many people think that a "beautiful" photograph is a picture taking with a professional camera by a professional photographer. This photographer looking for the best situation of the scene and depend what the photographer needs or wants to capture. For example if he or she wants to capture a dawn, he needs to prepare the site (localization), special camera lens, a good angle and find an excellent background.

However, I think that a beautiful photograph isn't a professional picture with the best things. A perfect picture is one that is born of a normal situation but includes a special moment for us. It's one that reaches to capture smiles, joy, feelings and they remain forever into us. For me, a "beautiful picture" contains a piece of our life. My question is: What is a Beautiful Picture for you?

For me, this is a beautiful picture.