Tagged: photos

Gorgeous Photo Book Celebrates 90 Years of Stars and Style at The Carlyle Hotel in NYC

The Carlyle in New York City is the sort of place where a princess, a pop star, and a titan of business might share an elevator. And we're not exaggerating: Princess Diana, Michael…

Accidentally Wes Anderson: A Worldwide Hunt for the Director's Just-So Aesthetic

You could never characterize the painstakingly arch visual style of film director Wes Anderson as art imitating life. It’s more like art redecorating life. Nevertheless, there are…

Bums Rush: Which Museum Has the Best Butt?

By our count, there has been precisely one upside to museums having to close their doors due to the worldwide health crisis: The forced downtime freed up bored staffers to participate…

Adorable Canine Instagrammer Has NYC’s Top Tourist Sites to Himself

By now, you've probably seen plenty of eerie photos showing normally crowded tourist sites looking desolate amid the pandemic lockdown. You know what makes them look less desolate?…

21 Beautiful Instagram Accounts By Beautiful Travelers

On Instagram you can find plenty of everything luscious in travel: extravagantly idyllic pools, staged shots of beaches, suspiciously well-lit wine al fresco, and, it must be said,…

How to Shoot Better Pictures with Your Smartphone

Remember the days when you had to lug around a DSLR camera during vacation so you could get that perfect shot of the Eiffel Tower or Golden Gate Bridge? Or maybe you had to grab a…

Study: Taking Photos Enhances Experiences

When you're at a museum or landmark where your fellow travelers are snapping photos incessantly, do you ever think those shutterbugs are missing out because they're experiencing the…

New App Deletes Photobombers From Snapshots

Software giant Adobe recently unveiled a new smartphone application that should appeal to amateur photographers on vacation. Called Monument Mode, it eliminates photobombers and…

Say "American Cheese": The White House Lifts Its Ban on Selfies

This past December, I had the priviledge of visiting the White House as part of a convocation of travel writers, brought together by the Obama Administration to get out the word that…

That's Ridiculous! Exchange Rate Rip-offs & How to Avoid Them

As Jay Berman and his wife were checking out of the Henley House in London last month, a clerk asked if they wanted to pay their bill in dollars. It seemed like a good idea at the…

Digital Travel Photography: Planning Your Trip from a Photo Perspective

One of the most enjoyable parts of any trip is the anticipation. The days and weeks leading up to your departure can be delightful, especially if you spend some of that time planning…

Digital Travel Photography: Recommended Resources

This article offers suggestions of various websites, magazines, and books that I believe are good resources for digital photographers. I hope you will find them to be good resources as…

Digital Travel Photography: Backing Up and Sharing Your Images

One of the best things about travel is the chance to get away from it all -- meaning a temporary replacement of the elements of your everyday life with new sights, sounds, foods,…

Get Thee to Babylon This Christmas for Family Oohs and Aahs

For 48 weeks a year this mild-mannered Suffolk County suburb on Long Island 45 miles (or roughly an hour's drive) from Manhattan is a working-class village with a predominantly…

Obama and McCain Strike Out on Travelers' Issues

In this intense presidential campaign, Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have talked about many issues. But as air travel gets more crowded, delayed and expensive, roads and…

Go Coastal: Uncover Maine's Maritime Heritage

Maine enjoys its reputation of being somewhat different from the rest of the country, even from other New England states. Formerly part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, residents…