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Tips for Digital Travel Photography

• Take along a spare camera—or two. Even if you've been anointed the
“official” photographer of your travel group, encourage others in your
party to carry their own cameras and provide fresh perspectives—and
backup. Your photographic “second unit” may include you in a few shots
so you're not the invisible person of the trip.
• Stock up on digital film cards. At home, it's easy to copy pictures from
your memory cards to your computer as they fill up. During your travels,
cards seem to fill up more quickly. Take along enough digital memory for
your entire trip or, at a minimum, enough for at least a few days' of shoot-
ing. At intervals, you can copy images to CDs. Many camera stores and
souvenir shops offer this service, and a growing number of mass mer-
chandisers have walk-up kiosks you can use to make prints or create CDs
while you travel.
• Share and share alike. No need to wait until you get home to share your
photos. You can upload a gallery's worth to an online photo-sharing serv-
ice. Just find an Internet cafe where the computers have card readers, or
connect your camera to the computer with a cable. You can find online
photo sharing services that cost little or nothing at www.clickherefree.
com. You can also use America Online's Your Pictures service, or commer-
cial enterprises that give you free or low-cost photo sharing: Kodak's
EasyShare gallery (www.kodak.com), Yahoo! Photos (www.photos.yahoo.
com), Snapfish (www.snapfish.com), or Shutterfly (www.shutterfly.com).
• Add voice annotations to your photos. Many digital cameras allow you
to add voice annotations to your shots after they're taken. These serve as
excellent reminders and documentation. One castle or cathedral may look
like another after a long tour; your voice notes will help you distinguish
them.
• Experiment! Travel is a great time to try out new techniques. Take photos
at night, resting your camera on a handy wall or other support as your
self-timer trips the shutter for a long exposure. Try close-ups of flowers,
crafts, wildlife, or maybe the exotic cuisine you're about to consume. Dis-
cover action photography—shoot the countryside from trains, buses, or
cars. With a digital camera, you can experiment and then erase your mis-
takes.

— From Travel Photography Digital Field Guide, 1st edition
(John Wiley & Sons, 2006)

part history, and a lot of insight into the
growing pains the region is experiencing.
The Europeanization of Central and East-
ern Europe, edited by Frank Schimmelfen-
nig and Ulrich Sedelmeier (Cornell
University Press, 2005), is another book
along those lines. The authors discuss the

impact of European Union reforms, new
laws, and regional social policy on East-
ern European culture and traditions.
Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Fal-
con: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Pen-
guin Books, 1994) is considered a
seminal work about the region that was