Travelling Lens Insider #013
Airport hacks, how to experience smoother travel during peak Summer season and dispelling photography myths
👋 Hey friends,
Welcome to Travelling Lens Insider, where every weekend I send you a carefully curated letter of all things travel, photography and points optimisation.
Now, onto this week’s letter…
✈️ Travel, Points and Miles
🛫 Make your travel more seamless and stress-free with these 20+ airport hacks for faster security, immigration and boarding.
🛅 Peak travel season and weather events tend to lead to a lot of airport chaos. And it’s frustrating when one thing or another leads to a missed connection. Know what happens if you miss your connecting flight so you’re prepared.
🏞️ There’s a lot you can do in in National Parks. Here are 5 things you should try to do at every park you visit. I like to collect park cancellation stamps as a fun little quest for all my National Park visits. And if you have kids, they’ll enjoy the Junior Ranger activities.
💳 If you play the points & mile games, you'll likely end up with a bunch of credit cards you don't actually use. If there’s still value in keeping them (e.g. improving your credit history in the US, for travel perks), remember to spend on them on occasion to keep them active to avoid card closures.
📷 Photography
📸 Like most beginners, I made a lot of mistakes when I first started taking travel photos. Learn from my experience and avoid this one big mistake.
🏕️ There are a lot of “rules” in photography. And if you like taking landscape and nature photos when travelling, you might have accepted this myths without realising it. And these 10 myths might be stopping you from taking great, memorable photos of your trip.
💡 Lighting is key to photography—without light, there is no photograph. So understanding your camera’s metering modes is critical to get great looking photos. This is a 12 minute, easy to understand visual breakdown of the different modes (and what to avoid).
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👀 Substack Finds
shares her top 5 epic National Parks you should explore this year. I totally agree with her, Zion and Acadia National Park are absolutely beautiful parks to explore—it makes my top 10 must-sees.
shares 8 tips for a smoother summer travel season. My favourite tip is booking non-stop flights where possible—I’ve had one too many experiences of missing a connecting flight because of weather or airline operational delays. Even if you’re not directly out of pocket, you still end up wasting a ton of time!
As a recovering FOMO-traveller, I totally relate to ’s point that we can’t see everything we want! If you’re not subscribed to
you definitely should, Daniel shares so many fun and interesting travel insights.
📸 Photo of the week
💬 Final Words
That’s all for today! See you next week!
Janice
P.s. what did you like in today’s Letter?—I would love to hear!
Thank you so much for featuring me, Janice!