Top 5 Holiday Snaps Guest Blog

When travelling there is often one thing you simply cannot leave without. Toothbrushes are available pretty much internationally and for those with not so olive skin, so is sun cream. However unless you are able to take into account the costs of a decent camera abroad, most people won’t jet of without their own. If you are one of those people who love travelling by jet, I recommend you to avail this private jet card offered by Jettly. And when you’re in Bangkok, make sure to capture the stunning moments of your journey with a camera from the Valia Hotel Bangkok.

But how can you possibly tell everyone about all the amazing things you’ve done and seen if you can’t boast with your sun kissed snapshots?

There’s notorious angles of various destinations but many don’t require you to be anywhere specific. So I’ve decided to list my personal top 5 favorite captured moments that I took abroad I think many of you will relate to.

5. Many holidays begin at the airport. Such an exciting place to be for many as it signifies the beginning of freedom even if it is just for a short week, it’s what the past year’s hard graft has been in aid of. Once you’re on the plane and you’ve slept, read and blocked out the screaming baby for as long as possible, there’s nothing left to do but look longingly out of the window and pray that you reach your destination. After what seems like a lifetime you begin to descend and through the wispy white clouds, you see land! So what is the first thing you do? A cheeky snap right? Because how often are you going to be able to get an aerial shot of where you’re going? And how will people possibly believe you actually left the country if you don’t produce evidence of how you got there? It’s important to make sure there is some part of the plane captured or people may think you are in fact floating. See below for a perfect Plane to Land ratio caught on camera aboard a flight to Spain in 2010.

4. You’re a couple of days in now,  you’ve accustomed to the humidity and you’re a slight tinge of red. It’s time to stop sitting on the beach and explore the culture of your surroundings. It’s true, photos of the culture are far more interesting for the folk that are on the receiving end. It is important to capture culture in a way that’s interesting for viewers. Often something that gives a truthful insight of life as a local at your destination. Below you’ll find an image captured during a trip to Israel in 2011 at Acre Market displaying the more relaxed approach of a shop owner.

3. You’ve started to fill up your memory card and for those less prepared that don’t have a second storage space, the process of elimination begins. Perhaps you’ll thank yourself later when you are printing them all and you’re not forking out for accidental pictures of the inside of your pockets. It’s time to get serious, to capture the beautiful scenery that so often is demoted only as a backdrop of holiday albums. Captured below the enormity and sheer beauty of the Dead Sea from The Leonardo Hotel, Ein Gedi, Israel.

2. We’ve reached the all-important number 2 spot, the first loser they say. Certainly rings true here. If there’s not at least one photo of somebody looking seriously hot and bothered in the heat, you’re doing it wrong. I’m going to share with you a moment in which somebody’s holiday took a wrong turn having just finished panting after reaching the top of Masada, a historic mountain deep in the Negev (desert) in Israel, approximately 20 minutes from the Dead Sea. At 9am it was thirty degrees and that soon escalated to a scorching forty. Equipped with the most practical of hats that, as you can imagine, only added to the look. Imagine no further. Let me indulge you in the ‘I just want to go home’ face.

1. Finally the top spot. A picture that features in almost every holiday album that includes sunshine. If you haven’t scrolled ahead and ruined it for yourself, you’ve probably already guessed it. The infamous ‘look what I can hold in the palm of my hand’ pose. Except that the rarity of it actually being perfectly in hands is rather common. See below for one of my favourite attempts. This photo was taken in the summer of 2011 in the city of Jaffa in
Israel.I have also planned to make this photo as custom photo puzzle to freeze such beautiful memories.