Ever had to get a passport photo and hated the result? Ever feel jilted about paying 12 dollars for a photo taken with an ordinary digital camera? Don’t you wish you could take your time trying to get the best one? Now you can!
Jackson Pollock’s Passport Photo
Did you know you could take your passport photo? It’s true! The state Department is making it easier for you to look great and have a State-Department accepted passport photo. Case in point: Prince’s passport photo. Visit the State Department page for more details. They even have a site that will format your photo to the correct size.
Learn more about the fees and costs of obtaining a passport here. If you are traveling internationally in less than two weeks or need to get a foreign visa within four weeks, you are eligible to schedule an appointment at a passport agency with proof of international travel. Visit the New York Passport Agency’s page for more information and to schedule an appointment.
Travel Tech Tip
If you’re contemplating flying somewhere but want to get a good price, use Google Flights or Matrix 3.0. Google Flights is a straightforward way to find flights without going directly to an airline’s website. Matrix 3.0 is more complicated but can give you very low-cost flights when you learn how to use it. Airlines use a very sophisticated software. Every seat on an airplane has different price points. Deleting your cookies after looking at airfare prices will not lower show you lower-cost flights (It’s a myth)…but there’s no reason not to try.
Maybe you aren’t traveling far
You can still enjoy the wonder of exploring a new place right here on Long Island. Did you know that we have discount tickets to Splish Splash? Come to the library with cash in hand because discount tickets will cost 35$ a ticket for adults and 28$ a ticket for children. We also have free museum passes for:
- Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Children’s Museum of the East End
- Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
- Frick Collection
- Guggenheim
- Intrepid
- Long Island Children’s Museum
- Long Island Maritime Museum
- Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages
- Old Westbury Gardens
- Parrish Art Museum
- Safari Adventure
- South Fork Natural History Museum
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
If you combine this with the LIRR 10$ round trip ticket day, on August 20th and September 17th, it’s an excellent way to save money and have a beautiful day out.
But if you do want to use your passport
The library has copies of all the travel guides you could possibly need to go anywhere in the world. Going to Crete? England? Germany? New Jersey? We have you covered.