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96 Use your sunglasses

If there’s high glare and you don’t have a filter, just hold your
polarized sunglasses as close to the lens as possible, check the image in your
viewfinder, and snap.

Traveler tip
97 Wrap your camera

During our trip to the Sahara Desert, three of us had our camera
lenses jammed (permanently!) from exposure to fine sand in the air during
a sandstorm (like powder). Keep cameras protected in zip lock bags and/or
wrapped in cloth.

— Susan Moor, 2-time traveler, Mill Neck, NY
A Note from Harriet: Wrapping your camera is also important in humid locations.
Our photographers have suggested using a hotel shower cap for this, or even
placing your camera in a plastic bag with a sock filled with dry rice. The rice
absorbs moisture.

98 Bring an instant camera

Those old-school, Polaroid-type cameras may not create the most
artistic images, but they sure can create some amazing memories if you use one

to photograph a local person, and then give the photo to them as a gi . Just be
ready to capture the smile that lights their face
when they see the magical image appear.

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