How to take good travel photos

Special Effects”

If you are looking for information on effect filters (stars, rainbows, etc...): sorry, I hardly ever use them.
It's not only that I find using such "enhancements" slightly unethical - I also tend to feel that pictures that rely on such techniques are pretty boring.

Special effects like star-filters create pretty patterns and can be pretty exciting at first.
But use them ten times during one holiday trip and you’ll already feel tired of them.
My recommendation: try them out, but always take a version without such a filter. Chances are this will be the one you keep in the end!