Barbara Walters Price

Happy Monday + 1

Sorry for the failure to post yesterday.  I was in south Louisiana on vacation with my family and decided to actually be on vacation.  While I wasn't completely unplugged, I was sufficiently unplugged enough to enjoy the weather (the azaleas are in bloom), the company, and the food. 

So, in honor of the adventure, here is a photo of a gator my husband took a few years ago when we were trekking along the inland waterway in Louisiana.  We came upon a "park" south of Lake Charles full of gators.  The best part was that the gators roamed freely.  Well, we didn't think it was the best part when we were there because this one decided to do a little sunbathing beside the path.  He/she was about 12 feet long.  Because discretion is surely the better part of valor, we turned around and went the other way only to find another one lounging on the walkway trapping us for a while.  It was an interesting day.

Source: Keith Price Photography (www.keithpricephotography.com)

Great Resource: Improve Your Slides with the Rule of Thirds

Per Six Minutes Public Speaking and Presenting Skills blog, check out this post, "How to Improve Your Slides with the Rule of Thirds."  Per the blog:

"Designing attractive slide visuals does not need to be a painful task. You don’t need to hire a design firm. You don’t need loads of expensive software.

You can design attractive visuals by following simple guidelines.  One of these simple guidelines is the Rule of Thirds — a composition technique borrowed from photography and other visual arts that works wonderfully in PowerPoint.

What is the Rule of Thirds?

It is a guideline for composition that suggests placing key graphic elements along lines which divide your image into thirds, or at the intersection of those lines."

If you engage in speaking engagements or produce slides for others, you must read this post.  It will change the way you think about slide structure.

Happy Monday

 

Happy Monday

Happy, Happy Monday

It's snowed in Memphis on Saturday afternoon (two days prior it was almost 70 degrees).  My kids:

This is Annie about to pelt me with a snowball.

This is Sarah getting pelted with a snowball. 

Hope everyone has a great week!