Sheepdog monitors a flower shop in Dinan, France

I have written in the past about cheap and light souvenirs to bring home from your trip. Photos are fantastic souvenirs. They are as light as air and just as cheap. If you print them out when you get home and pop them in a ready-made frame, it can cost just a few dollars to display them on a shelf or on your walls. I have had consistently good results using Nations Photo Lab. Upload your photos, select the size and other options, and they mail the prints to you.

Photos are my favorite way to decorate my office. Memories of favorite vacations (or reminders to plan your next one) brighten up a generic office space really fast.

The photos here are my own favorites that I’ve chosen to print and frame.

Antigua, Guatemala – a heavily touristed town, but full of splashes of color

 

Hillside around Pétion-Ville, Haiti

 

Terra Cotta Warriors in Xi’an, China

 

Curious girls at Adadi Mariam, Ethiopia

 

Sunrise at the top of Mount Sinai

 

Cuban Cowboy

Here is a post I wrote about Cuban Art and Framing Tips.

I should mention that the photos throughout my blog are mostly my own. If they are not, I’ve credited the source.

Another option is photo books. In 2018, I created my first photo book with my cousin after our wonderful trip to Morocco with her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend. There were so many colorful photos and wonderful memories, it was difficult to boil it down to the 120 or so that made it into the book. We used Mixbook. We found their website easy to use for uploading photos and designing page layouts. We were pleased with the print quality of the hardcover books we ordered.

Left to right: cousin Rachel, cousin Tammy, me (shot by Dani)

 

Here are more photos that I’ve not printed, but are candidates in the future (if I find space on my walls).

Flores, Guatemala

 

Farmer grows three colors of potatoes on an island in Lake Titicaca, Peru

 

Eastern Mountain Gorilla in Virunga Mountains – only 1,000 left in the world

 

Rwanda – dancers were waiting for us when we came down from the mountains

Yup, I got up and danced with them.