You can’t be on every island at once – but you can feel like you are. Here are the latest links with useful information about island travel from around the world.
For this "Best of the Week," I'm looking at Scribd -- that YouTube for documents that may (or may not) become all the rage. You'll start seeing some ISLANDS articles available there, but for now, here's a sampling of some favorite docs.
1. The Thousand Islands Showing Scribd is not just about PDFs, here's a PowerPoint presentation that's almost entirely made up of fun aerial images from the Thousand Islands.
On airplanes, I sit by the window. This keeps my drowsing noggin from getting clipped by the beverage cart, but also the most stunning visual impressions of a place are often those first ones you get from the air.
When taking photos, human nature causes most people to center their subject in the frame. While that's not a bad thing, it's fun to mix things up and create more dynamic compositions. Enter the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is a compositional guideline which uses a grid to divide the frame into 9 sections using two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines (as shown on the photo above). The intersection of those lines are a great place to put your subject for a more interesting composition.
