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.

 Please share links to your favourite posts.

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

 

Angela Lansbury

Tweet to @AngelaTheAuthor

NB I am not the actress. She does wonderful publicity for our name. We both have a son called Anthony. LinkedIn has 14 professionals named Angela Lansbury.

I am the author of:
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.
How to be the Best Man.
Plus several more books by mainstream publishers. See Amazon for more.

I have self-published several more books. See Lulu.com

You can also see me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest

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Travel Wishlists and Wedding Gifts: Sandcastle Art Museum

The Sandcastle Art museum in Japan is on my wishlist, from yesterday. I've already lost track of where I saw it. Was it on TripAdvisor, or Metro, or The Evening Standard, or the BBC travel website, or the Daily Mail online? Today I found it, Tottori Sand Museum, on TripAdvisor. Tottori is a seaside town known for high sand dunes, on the west coast of Japan. The museum has changing exhibitions.

From Wikipedia. See Wikipedia for more details on this photo and for other pictures.

(For more details see next post.)

Recording A Travel Wish List
My travel organiser vow is to note my wish list immediately on a page in my diary. No room in the diary? I create lists on the blank endpapers of books. In my new diaries I start my making on index of black pages which don't yet have headings.  If I've started a diary late in the year, I re-title earlier pages.

When I go on holiday, I have a wishlist of sights to see at my destination in order or priority.  I check opening hours and closing days. So much easier to research on the computer or laptop at home than trying to do it when looking for an internet connection overseas in a hotel which charges, or an isolated location, or a cafe where you need a code whilst the waiter is busy taking orders from customers.

You may be able to make yourself a wishlist on a wishlists, you can add it to your own profile. Or find a book on it and add it to your reading wishlist, or for your birthday presents wishlist, even guides to read on your honeymoon on your engagement party or wedding list. If nobody buys them for you, you have a note for yourself, and can use cash you are given to buy the books or entry fees.
If you are art lovers and already have everything, perhaps a museum, art gallery or zoo annual membership, or even a life membership of an organisation such as a golf club or a society supporting a National Trust or bird watching with entry to the local centre, safari park, national gardens, restaurant club, wine society or a zoo.

If the books are too inexpensive for a single present, they can be used to top up the expenditure on another gift. For example, in some countries you display gifts on a table with the donor's name, so you might have a book with a display card saying, Aunty May bought us a washing machine and this lovely book on ...