How to Caption Vacation Photos

There is nothing as dumb and boring as captioning a photo of a sunrise you saw on vacation as “Sunrise I saw on vacation.” The people you force to gaze at your vacation photos will have much more fun, and you’ll have much enhanced memories, if you caption vacation photos with a little pizzazz.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Pen and slips of paper for captions

1. Pick an album or online program to organize a number of your photos, leaving room for captions.

2. Treat each photo as the unique piece of art it is. Gear your mind to create each caption with as much importance. Gaze at the photo and think.

3. Ignore the obvious, such as “Sunset I saw on vacation.” For starters, anyone who is looking at your vacation photos is going to know these are things you saw on vacation. Secondly, unless you are a totally horrid photographer, they are also going to know it’s a sunrise.

4. Whip up a meaningful mini-memory. The new caption could read something like: “Every day the morning sunrise reminded me there is a God,” or "If only our brains could be as majestic as Mexico's sunrise."

Tips & Warnings

• Have fun with the captions. Come up with cute little ditties or rhymes, when applicable: “Nothing makes you as wise as a red and yellow sunrise.”
• Throw in other vacation facts. “I almost missed the sunrise my first day in Mexico because it took 600 years to get through customs.”
• If arranging the photos in an album, it’s fun to use scraps of neon notecards for each caption.
• Don’t write anything too long or you’ll never get through all your photos and nobody will want to read it.
• No matter how beautiful each photo is, do not include 57 different shots of the sunrise. You'll bore even yourself.