Travel: Vacationing Tips to Protect You and Your Family

Vacationing Tips to Protect You and Your Family

Written by Jordan Walt

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• Only carry credit cards that you will need on vacation. Leave cards for particular department stores or things like gas cards at home. • Remember that your credit card number is on your plane tickets, so treat them as you would a credit card. • Cover ATM key pads when entering your PIN. People could be watching over your shoulder, or even from a distance, and then later attempt to steal your wallet and use this information. • Use common sense when traveling. Do not draw attention to yourself as a tourist. Avoid reading maps in a busy, high-traffic area, carry your camera in a tote bag rather than repparttar

carrying case, and do not flaunt large amounts of cash when removing money from your wallet or pocket. Your homeowners, condo or renters insurance policy may cover loss or damage of your personal items while traveling, up to specified limits. Take time before you go on vacation to compile a personal property inventory, which helps determine replacement cost of lost items. Document each item’s year of purchase and original price. Items that may exceed policy limits, such as jewelry, cameras and golf equipment, need additional protection such as Travelers valuable items insurance. To ensure you have repparttar 133878

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Photography Tips While Traveling

Written by Robert Bezman

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You instinctively pull repparttar car over, grab your camera and your tripod, and look for repparttar 133877 best spot to set up. Just one tiny little problem… YOU FORGOT YOUR TRIPOD! Rather than smack yourself on repparttar 133878 forehead then, why not plan these things now, before you leave?

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1) Do I need to repeat – BRING YOUR TRIPOD? It doesn’t take up much room, and as explained at www.best-family-photography-tips.com/tripod-photography.html, tripods allow you to capture entirely new categories of photographs that won’t be possible without one

2) Memory. Of course, bring all repparttar 133880 memory you have, but also pack your portable storage device (explained at http://www.best-family-photography-tips.com/digital-photography-tutorial.html)

3) If your camera has a hot shoe, bring your external flash, and any additional equipment that can be used to help with bounce flash

4) Remember your external shutter release cable for those long exposures. How else are you going to get that “angel-hair” look of repparttar 133881 waterfalls?

5) Don’t forget repparttar 133882 basics like: batteries, battery charger, camera bag, and additional lenses and filters (if applicable on your camera)

6) And just in case you need it, bring repparttar 133883 manuals for your equipment.

Finally, don’t get so wrapped up in taking perfect shots that you don’t enjoy repparttar 133884 trip. Remember to use repparttar 133885 tripod so that you'll be in at least some of repparttar 133886 photos.

Robert Bezman is a professional photographer and owner of Custom Photographic Expressions. Robert has created www.best-family-photography-tips.com to help the digital photography users create better photographs. Robert has a blog at http://www.best-family-photography-tips.com/family-photography-news.html

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