While visiting the Louvre, I was struck by the incredible number of people taking photographs – of everything it seemed! About 8.3 million people visited the Paris museum in 2007, and most of them probably had a camera. Think of the number of pixels out there on hard drives everywhere from just that statistic!

So, how to make your photo exceptional? My choice was to take in the crowd as well as the art. The Mona Lisa has a river of people streaming towards her, not even stopping along the way. That to me was as fascinating as the painting itself.

© 2008 Kathy Tarantola, Boston DPA Instructor