Get closer...

I'm guessing that you have a lot of vacation photos that look similar to this - basically a shot that shows a lot of the surrounding area of whatever your point of interest is. I think this shot pretty much sucks. (I take a lot of these. Anyone who says all of their photos are great is lying.)

I took all of these photos with my point-and-shoot camera. It's nothing super special.



These are some of the easiest photos to make more interesting! First, find a unique detail you want to focus on. Then, look at the background for any distractions. Look all around for different angles you can shoot at. Squat down and see what it looks like if you are looking up at it.

In this case, I focused on one elephant (out of the thousands circling the shrine). I tried different angles until I found one where you could see the main part of the shrine in the background. It worked out perfectly that the main elephant covered 1/3 of the photo, the shrine another 1/3, and 1/3 was empty space.



The result.... a vacation photo that you'd be happy to display.