Your Favourite Photo? Pick your favourite from other people's. Sort your own photos by themes.

Fishguard Bay Hotel, Wales. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

A classic picture with a frame from trees meeting overhead. I had to run back along the road to the right spot to create this view.

A photo contest prompted me to look back at some of my favourite photos. What are your favourites? Can you make a montage? Or group the best ones?

Food and drink which tells a story. Madeira wine in Madeira. Photo by Angela Lansbury

I thought it was a British red postbox. But it is a Spanish or Portuguese one in bright red, known as pillar box red.
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Snow. Andorra. Sharot Family.

Outside in the gardens of Singapore. Palm trees and fountains. Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Red carpet entrance and Christmas decorations. Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

I like the way the musical instruments made of glass are celebrating on the gallery.

I know he is only a plastic blowup snowman, absurdly in the tropics, but he looks so jolly that he makes he smile.

The colours of the ceiling change in rotation. Singapore.

Madeira. Triangular traditional houses. Now shops.

The blue bridge. Singapore.

The delightful drink dominates.

At New Year, the universal new year, it is good to look back or forward. For Chinese New Year, to plan ahead. 

How to sort photos? I was shown how to do it by the head of the New Zealand national photographic club years ago. 

Logically, list chronologically in numerical order. Add lists which group photos by theme, such as countries, and/or cities, or subjects such as museums, nature, people, family. 

You find each picture using the generated numbers, which could include the year, perhaps after a decimal point. For example, if you went to Edinburgh for New Year's eve and took a photo, it might be listed under Edinburgh 1.31/12/2000. The second photo you took would be 2.31/12/2000. Or the year and then the number. Edinburgh: Year 2000. 1 Castle. 2 Scotsman in kilt.

 Another list might be Castles: 2000.2. Scotsman in kilt.   

Nowadays you can group photos on pages by theme on Instagram and in Pinterest. Or start blogs by subject. I have a blog on travel. Another blog covers myself in Dress of the Day.

Useful Websites 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-10473005/The-stunning-winning-images-2021-Travel-Photographer-Year-awards.html

 About the author of this blog post

Angela Lansbury

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

How to use Instagram to post photos of your holiday or event

I signed up for Instagram years ago but forgot how to use it.












Instagram has a help page.

Once you know, it looks simple. Look for the plus sign in the lower part of your screen to add a photo. Yes, plus, the same as adding a name to the contacts in an Android phone.

Why do I not see the plus sign? Maybe because I am not logged in.

I looked up Instagram in Wikipedia and found out that it is now (according to the Wiki article in July 2020) owned by Facebook.

I was able to update my profile page. It asked me for my website but allowed only one.

It is worthile thinking why you want an instagram page. If you have two or three different streams of interest, for example, promoting your books, selling clothes, showing off family photos, you might wish to have two or more Instagram sites. If they will not allow a second with the same email, and you get the message that this email is already in use, you may need to use a different email.

It is easy to creat a new email. But you have to keep checking all your emails. This is handy if you want to check your emails connected with work before family, or family before work.

Sometimes you can change your phone or laptop setting so that you see all emails. This is useful to be sure you don't lose anything vital to spam or social. I was losing my notification of messages to meetup which advertised my Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters meetings.

So, all your emails, websites and media pages tie in.  If you are into PR, you should be using Instagram. But, you may ponder, why use Instagram, which is all pictures? I am promoting events for which I don't yet have pictures, and writing blogs, using other people's pictures.

You can make a poster to promote your upcoming event using photos of your main speakers. You can put a photo of your speakers on Instagram. But what if the photos are poor quality/ What about a photo of yourself?

Instagram has many uses.

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-post-on-instagram

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg

Incoming president Faith from Wed July 15th 2020 change dates and platforms so please contact the club.

Latest is only two meetings each month.

For meetings learncool it is quicker to type and easier to remember: 

 tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites On Speaking and Languages

https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com

https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/vi/en/Learn-Vietnamese

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

Other Useful Posts By Angela Lansbury Author

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html 

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Quick Marketing With Meetup And PR On The Internet

Meetup gogo.

How long will we be in Lockdown? How long will be working from home, or having to communicate with people in the same office by using online conference calls instead of sitting around a table together in a small meeting room? It looks like we shall need to continue to meet online for some time.

When I wrote on Meetup a post promoting my meeting of Braddell Heights Toastmasters Club on Wednesday May 13th at 7 pm on App learncool.sg , I was delighted to find I could instantly also promote it on Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn.😃😃👌

The link took me through to twitter, and the brief link to the Meetup website was already inserted. All I had to do was agree to post. Click. Done.

The LinkedIn page in addition asked me if I wanted to write a post. I had been wanting to write promotional posts for years but not done so.

I started my first post promoting my speakers' training club.

Although I had paid, and later reclaimed from the club, the money for the subscription to Meetup for one year, I had the added benefits of quickly reaching three other platforms.

Earlier in the year my PR for the club had asked what she should do. Her job, the one she is keen on, is doing posters. It has taken me most of a year to grasp the essentials of prmotion on line, and to know enough to brief an incoming PR.

Fortunately, as Immediate Past President, I shall be on hand, on call, to help the next wave of committee members.

Useful Websites
https://qz.com/1167024/all-the-things-you-can-and-cant-do-with-your-wechat-account-in-china/

About the Author

Useful Websites
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
Meetup
Twitter
Wechat
https://www.gov.sg/features/covid-19
Facebool.trevorsharot

About The Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, club organizer and speaker.

Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=upSEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=quick+quotations
lulu.com/shop/angela-lansbury/who-said-what-when/paperback/product-21713991
learncool.sg
Braddell Heights Advanced speakers club meets every Wednesday, currently on line.
Future Meetings include
Wednesday May 13th, lucky for us, as we have Thomas Chen running a workshop on Networking.
Contact President Angela Lansbury or VPE Faith. Then login to learncool.sg and wait to be admitted by the host.
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Where to share your travel photos and stories

Problems
1 You have photos you'd love to share but one friend is on Facebook but not LinkedIn, another is on LinkedIn but not Facebook, or you'd just like more followers.
2 When you try to share something, you get asked for a password.
3 You keep hearing about other sites but have no complete list.

Answer
1 Use Sharethis
2 List all non-vital passwords somewhere secret not immediately obvious to somebody sitting in your office or kitchen but which will be found by family or colleagues if you die. For example: in a password page taped inside a cupboard door, behind picture frame, under your desk, under the phone, under the shelf of a bookshelf, behind a picture in a frame, behind a clock, under a carpet or rug, behind a minor, under a desk lamp, inside a CD, in a photo album, behind a noticeboard, at the back of a calendar, - look around your home and office, the number of places is endless but make sure it could not be thrown away or stolen or easily found by an intruder.
2 Here they are alphabetically.
Digg
Email (the most private, you can send individually but you can also send to groups, however most sites have an address limit to prevent spam, so if you belong to a club which has two hundred members and the limit is one hundred addresses, you may have to divide your club address list in half alphabetically.
Facebook
Google Plus
LinkedIn
Instagram
Pinterest
Reddit
Stumbled upon
Tumblr
Twitter
Wordpress

Story
I have been relying on one or two sites. I now need more.

Tip
Keep a brightly coloured book or a book with a brightly coloured label for your passwords.

Action
1 Decide which posts and photos you wish to keep secret such as
a) Children
b) Your current location 3 Your future travels. (Maybe OK if you are a blogger and have somebody permanently at home, such as a family member, parents, relatives, maid, au pair, butler, colleague, staff, guest, video camera linked to your phone or neighbour to alert to intruders. Or if you have no home because you are constantly travelling.
2 Make a list of sites. Link them to automatically update.
3 Embed links in your blogs.

Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer.Currently on Facebook, LInkedIn, Twitter. Soon to be on 'all of the above'.

Saving and Sharing Your Drawing From iPad to Phone, Laptop and Instagram

If you have created a drawing on an iPad in an Apple store, or on your own iPad, you may want to save it and transfer it to your mobile phone or laptop and then share it. How?

You can transfer it via a bluetooth connection to your phone.

I had joined Instagram on one of my devices, but had to rejoin it for the other device.

I sent my photo to a website but it arrived sideways and with the artist's signature partly missing.

Once the photo was loaded up, I could not change it. I had to delete it. Send it to my laptop. I had it in downloads. I slid it across to iPhoto. I then changed the direction, made it smaller so my signature was visible, and created more contrast.

Because I was in a workshop which was coming to an end, I had to work quickly. If I had had more time I would have achieved a better result, as you could if you spent time.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, caricaturist, author and speaker.

Photographic Competitions - some suggestions, or Instagram

Google photographic competitions to see what you can enter and what inspires you.
What do you need to do?
Take photos in the categories listed.
Make sure your photo is sharp.
Do not take any pictures which might infringe somebody else's copyright.

First look through your existing photos to see what you have in the listed categories.
If you have a good subject, but bad lighting, go back and take more photos in better light. If your photo is not sharp, go back and take another photo with a tripod.

If previous winning competitions included human interest, or objects to illustrate size, add these to your composition.
1 Dress in your best clothes. Take a selfie. Or use time lapse.
2 Take your dog or a family member's dog. For example, a photo of a tree might be enhanced, or size exaggerated, with a dog or bird.
3 Set up time lapse in your garden and take multiple shots hoping a bird or cat or spider will come into view.

Many competitions have closing dates far ahead. You have time to take many different photos or many photos of the same scene with different lighting, people, or added objects.

Emotions
Add the joy of a prizewinner. The sadness of a funeral. Loneliness. Crowds. One person out of step.

Contrasts
Large and small. Old and young. Light and dark.

https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards/2017/open

Instagram
If you don't feel your photos are ready for competitions, you might like to use Instagram. A new friend told me she does not use Facebook which is full of distracting text. She used Instagram just to put up photos.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.