Monday Muddle

Happy Monday everyone.  I am doing everything I can to put off cleaning our garage today.  It has to get done because we have friends coming to visit on Wednesday.  If we did not have company we would not get anything accomplished around the house.  I guess Monday is a good day to do unpleasant tasks.
Here is a website that a lot of travel professionals as well as consumers use to refine searches for hotels and look at customer reviews.  It is called Room 777 and it gives you a lot more information than most of the other hotel search sights such as the distance the room is from the elevator.  Here is a link to the website:
http://www.room77.com
This article lists the top ten mistakes beginning Photographers make.  Number one is not reading their camera's instrution manual.  This is probably the most important one in my opinion.  You need to really know how to operate your camera and to be aware of all the things it can do.
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/top-10-mistakes-of-beginning-photographers/
This next article is about buying your first SLR camera.  The best tip in this article is about the lenses.  The lens is much more important than the camera when you get into this category.  The lenses are the part that gets to be expensive but it is worth the investment.  If you go with Olympus you can get a lot better lens for the money than some of the other brands, in my opinion.
http://www.photographyblogger.net/the-best-and-most-often-piece-of-advice-i-can-give-to-you-for-buying-your-first-dslr/
I started posting some of my photographs on a website for artists called Fine Art America.  They only allow you to post 25 images at a time but they do all the marketing and printing for you.  The bonus is the only work involved is uploading.  I will let you all know if it generates any sales or not.  Click on the link below to take a look:
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/becky-mcguire.html
The Thought For The Day:
"You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them tha in ten years by trying to get them interested in you."  by Charles Allen.  Many Thanks to Michelle Lockwood of Michelle Lockwood Photography for posting this quot on Facebook.
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Becky McGuire, CTC, MCC
Vacation Travel Specialist

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