City guide · Mewar, Rajasthan
Udaipur
The City of Lakes
What to do in Udaipur, in one paragraph
6 things are worth your time, and this is the order to do them in: City Palace, Lake Pichola by boat and Jagdish Temple, then the rest below. Everything after that is the next tier — worth it if you have the days, skippable if you don’t. What to avoid is further down, and we say why.
In 60 seconds
Udaipur is a city in Rajasthan, India, and the capital of the former kingdom of Mewar — founded in 1559 around a chain of man-made lakes, and known as the City of Lakes.
After Chittorgarh burned once too often, Maharana Udai Singh II built a capital behind lakes and hills — and Mewar's pride moved in and never left.
Udaipur is Rajasthan at its most romantic: white palaces doubled in still water, rooftop dinners, the slow theatre of ghats at dawn. It is also the seat of the house whose great boast is that it never bowed to the Mughals. Come October to March, give it two or three days, and plan your evenings around the sunsets — this city is built for them.
FOUNDED
1559
by Maharana Udai Singh II of Mewar
BEST TIME
Oct – Mar
monsoon (Aug–Sep) fills the lakes and is beautiful too
GIVE IT
2 – 3 days
plus a day for Kumbhalgarh & Ranakpur
GETTING IN
UDR
Maharana Pratap airport, 40 min out; overnight trains from Delhi & Jaipur
The Story, in Five Acts
The full telling lives in the guide
THE REFUGE · 1559
Chittorgarh, Mewar's great fort, had been besieged and sacked at terrible cost — and would be again. Udai Singh II chose a valley in the Aravalli hills, screened by ridges and water; the story goes that a hermit on the ridge blessed the spot and told him to build. In 1559 he did, and when Chittor fell a final time in 1568, the capital was already safe behind the lakes.
THE HOUSE THAT NEVER BOWED
The Sisodias of Mewar are counted among the oldest ruling houses anywhere, and their pride is the spine of Rajput history: Maharana Pratap fought Akbar's empire at Haldighati in 1576 and kept fighting from the hills rather than submit. Mewar never gave a daughter to the Mughal court — the one boast every guide in Udaipur will make, and history largely lets them.
THE LAKES
The romance is engineering. Pichola was dammed in the 14th century and enlarged by Udai Singh; Fateh Sagar, Swaroop Sagar and the rest followed — a chain of man-made reservoirs that turned a dry valley into a water city. Udaipur doesn't sit beside its lakes; it exists because of them.
THE ROMANCE INDUSTRY
A British officer, James Tod, wrote Mewar into Western imagination in the 1820s with his Annals — knights, honour, doomed sieges — and the world has come courting since. The island pleasure-palace of Jag Niwas, built in the 1740s, became the Lake Palace hotel in the 1960s, and Udaipur discovered its modern trade: being the most beautiful place to fall in love with India.
THE LIVING STAGE · 1948 —
Mewar joined the Indian Union with the rest of Rajasthan, the family stayed on in the City Palace, and the movies arrived — most famously the Bond film Octopussy in 1983, which the old city's rooftop cafés have screened nightly ever since, entirely unbothered by the passage of forty years.
Look Closer™ · City Palace
Stand here. Look for this.
What the plaques won’t tell you — and where to stand to see it for yourself.
The hotel you can't visit
The Lake Palace floating on Pichola is guests-only — no day trips, no café visit. The closest a non-guest gets is a boat circling it at sunset, which is honestly the better view.
Octopussy, every night
Rooftop restaurants in the old city have screened the 1983 Bond film shot here every single evening for decades. Watching it above the lakes it was filmed on is peak Udaipur kitsch — do it once.
The sun on the wall
The Sisodias claim descent from the sun, and a golden sun-face is set into the City Palace wall. The telling goes that in cloudy monsoons the Maharana would take darshan of this emblem instead — the sun, attending court by proxy.
The crystal nobody unpacked
In 1877 Maharana Sajjan Singh ordered a trove of custom crystal from England — beds and chairs included. The story goes he died before it arrived, and that it sat crated for decades. It is displayed today as the Crystal Gallery in Fateh Prakash Palace, inside the City Palace complex — not, as often assumed, at the Lake Palace out on the water.
Shah Jahan's rehearsal
In 1623–24 the rebel Mughal prince Khurram — the future Shah Jahan — sheltered from his father in Jag Mandir's Gul Mahal, the island palace on Pichola. Local tradition holds that the inlaid marble he saw there stayed with him when he came to build the Taj Mahal. The tradition is a tradition; the refuge is documented.
The India Unfolded edit
What to See
Ranked — do them in this order
City Palace
UNMISSABLEMewar's palace-of-palaces, built by 22 rulers over 400 years — courtyards, peacock mosaics, and windows that frame Pichola like paintings. Allow a half day; the museum audio route rewards patience.
Lake Pichola by boat
The circuit from Rameshwar Ghat, past the ghats and around the Lake Palace — and it lands at Jag Mandir rather than just circling it, so allow time on the island. Daytime boats are calm; the sunset run is the one everyone wants — book the slot you actually mean.
Jagdish Temple
The 1651 Vishnu temple at the palace gates, carved floor to shikhara and still loudly, joyfully in use. Go at aarti and stand at the back.
Bagore ki Haveli & Dharohar
A haveli on Gangaur Ghat built for Amar Chand Badwa, prime minister of Mewar 1751–78, and at 7pm its courtyard hosts Dharohar — ghoomar through to the pot-balancing finale. Two separate tickets: the museum by day, the show by night.
Sajjangarh (Monsoon Palace)
The ridge-top palace built to watch the monsoon roll in across the lakes. Bare inside; the point is the golden hour view over the whole water city. What you buy at the foot of the hill is a forest-department sanctuary ticket — there is no separate palace ticket — and autos are not allowed up, so from the base gate it is a shared forest jeep.
Saheliyon ki Bari
The 'garden of the maidens' — fountains, lotus pools and shade, built for a queen's companions. A gentle hour when the forts have worn you out.
FEES REVIEWED · AUGUST 2026≈ marks values that move. Spot a change on the ground? Tell us — we fix it in days.
If you want to go deeper
Also worth your time
Do the edit above first. This is the next tier — genuinely worthwhile, honestly described, ≈ where facts move.
Fateh Sagar & Moti Magri
Udaipur's breezier second lake, with the Maharana Pratap memorial on the hill above — join the evening crowd at the lakefront chai chowpatty and watch the city be itself.
Lakefront free · boats and memorial extra
Eklingji
The Shiva complex — around 108 shrines — that is Mewar's true sovereign: the Maharana rules as its regent, and still worships here. Phones and cameras cannot be carried in at all, a full ban since December 2024, not merely a no-photography rule; leave them behind or expect to surrender them at the gate. Dress covered.
Free · three darshan slots only, roughly 04:30–07:00, 10:30–13:30 and 17:00–19:30; the midday window is the reliable one, the others vary by source — confirm locally · Mondays are far busier · 22 km north
Sahastra Bahu Temples, Nagda
Twin Vishnu temples of about 975 CE, built at the old Guhila capital of Nagahrida and carved to lacework beside a lotus pond — an ASI monument a mile or two from Eklingji, so pair the two into one reverent morning. Sahastrabahu, a thousand arms of Vishnu, worn down in speech to Sas-Bahu.
No fee listed by the ASI · daylight · beside Eklingji
Shilpgram
The living crafts village west of Fateh Sagar — regional hut architecture, artisans at work, and the big December Utsav.
≈ ₹50 foreign / ₹30 Indian · 11:00–19:00 · usually given as 3 km west, but ≈ 5 km by road from the old city — 15–20 min by auto
Ahar Cenotaphs
Over two hundred and fifty marble chhatris raised across some 350 years — about nineteen of them ruling Maharanas, the rest queens, consorts and sati memorials, which is why the ground is called Mahasatiya. Beside it a small museum on a settlement mound occupied from around 2500 BC — and almost nobody goes.
Token entry · the museum is a state, not ASI, site so its closed day is likely Monday rather than the Friday often printed — confirm locally · 3 km east
The Vintage Car Collection
The Maharana's garage: Rolls-Royces, state carriages, and the 1934 Phantom II that Kamal Khan is driven in through Octopussy.
₹330 adult / ₹200 child, no foreigner premium · 9:00–17:00
Karni Mata Ropeway & Doodh Talai
The cable car up Machhala Hill for the aerial Pichola sunset — the musical-fountain garden waits below for the descent.
Flat round-trip fare, ≈ ₹120 adult / ₹55 child — no separate foreigner rate · 9:00–21:00 · sunset
If you have more time
Jaisamand Lake — one of Asia's largest artificial lakes (1685) — marble dam, island palaces, ≈50 km southeast
Udai Sagar — Udai Singh's quiet 1565 reservoir, 13 km east — rural Mewar without an itinerary
Neemach Mata climb — the free sunrise panorama above Fateh Sagar — 30 steep minutes, worth every one
Sajjangarh Biological Park — a separate ticket from the sanctuary — ₹300 foreign / ₹40 Indian / ₹15 students, camera ₹80; the well-kept park below the Monsoon Palace
The Sunset Ledger
Only Udaipur gets this chapter — it earned it
Udaipur's real itinerary is its evenings. Five ways to spend the same sunset, ranked by nothing but our honest opinion of where we'd stand tonight — one per evening, in this order.
1. Ambrai Ghat
Free
The palace lit gold across the water — arrive 40 min early for a spot on the steps
2. A boat on Pichola
≈ ₹700 – 1,000
The only seat where the city surrounds you; book the true sunset slot
3. Sajjangarh ridge
≈ ₹200 + ride
The whole lake system at once; leave before the light dies — the road down is dark
4. A rooftop with a thali
Price of dinner
The lazy perfection: order early, the kitchen slows at golden hour
5. Karni Mata ropeway deck
≈ ₹150
Udaipur's own hilltop Karni Mata (no rats here) — Pichola from the south, half the crowd of Sajjangarh
Off the Beaten Path
Where Udaipur stops posing for wedding photographers and remembers it's a working lake town.
The ghats at dawn
Gangaur and Ambrai ghats before 8am: laundry rhythms, temple bells, pigeons in formation, and the palace lit gold across still water — the city's best hour, free.
Eklingji & Nagda
Forty minutes north: the temple of Mewar's patron deity — the Maharanas rule, formally, as his regents — and the ruined 10th-century temples of Nagda beside a lily pond.
Badi Lake & the Bahubali ridge
The locals' lake beyond the hills. The short climb they call Bahubali hill is no secret anymore, but early on a weekday it's still just you, the wind and the water.
Shilpgram
The rural crafts village west of Fateh Sagar — potters, weavers and folk performers from across the west; at its best during the December crafts fair.
The Shot List™ · our creative direction for Udaipur
Thousands of photos. Not one memory.
Most travelers come home with hundreds of photographs and no real story. The Shot List is our creative direction for the city: twelve moments, in the order that tells the story of Udaipur — and for each one, exactly where to take it, what to focus on and how. No photography ability required. If you can follow five steps, you can bring home the book.
The Udaipur direction, frame by frame — the example photographs are in production.
01 · WHERE TO TAKE IT
The exact place and the hour the light is right — named, not hinted.
02 · WHAT TO FOCUS ON
What goes in the frame, where your family stands, what stays out.
03 · HOW TO TAKE IT
Which way to hold the phone, what to tap, when to press. Five plain steps.
The ghat at dawn
- WHERE
- Gangaur Ghat, Lake Pichola's old-city shore, at sunrise
- FOCUS
- The palace across the water; your family on the steps, looking at it
- HOW
- Phone sideways, three layers: steps, water, palace
SHOT 01 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Be at Gangaur Ghat at sunrise — the laundry and the pigeons are your company.
- 2Sit your family on the steps, backs half-turned, looking across the lake.
- 3Hold the phone sideways; put the water across the middle.
- 4Tap on the palace so it holds its colour in the haze.
- 5Shoot before the boats start; the mirror goes at seven-thirty.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Gangaur Ghat, by Bagore ki Haveli
- Ambrai Ghat across the water, for the palace full-on
- BEST LIGHT
- sunrise to an hour after
- PHONE
- Landscape · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTThe first look at a capital built on water — the Sisodias' refuge after Chittor, 1559.
The palace from Ambrai
- WHERE
- Ambrai Ghat, directly across the water from the City Palace, morning
- FOCUS
- The whole palace front with its reflection; your family small at the water's edge
- HOW
- Get low, phone sideways, the waterline through the middle
SHOT 02 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Cross the footbridge to Ambrai Ghat in the first two hours of light.
- 2Kneel at the water's edge so the reflection fills the bottom half.
- 3Hold the phone sideways, palace across the top, reflection below.
- 4Put your family at one edge, looking at the palace.
- 5Wait for a still moment between boats, then shoot.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Ambrai Ghat (Hanuman Ghat), beside the Ambrai restaurant
- BEST LIGHT
- first two morning hours, before the breeze
- PHONE
- Landscape · 1× or 2×
WHY THIS SHOTThe longest palace facade in Rajasthan, built by twenty-two rulers over four hundred years.
Through Bara Pol
- WHERE
- Bara Pol, the City Palace's main gate, mid-morning
- FOCUS
- The whole arch; your family walking through toward the inner gate
- HOW
- Ten paces back in the shade, phone upright, tap on the bright court
SHOT 03 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Enter at Bara Pol when the palace opens at 9:30 and stop just inside the first gate.
- 2Hold the phone upright and centre the arch.
- 3Send your family walking ahead toward Tripolia, the triple gate.
- 4Tap on the sunlit courtyard beyond, not the dark arch.
- 5Shoot when they're under the arch, small.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Bara Pol → Tripolia, City Palace
- The elephant-weighing arches beyond Tripolia
- BEST LIGHT
- mid-morning, arch in shade
- PHONE
- Portrait · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTMaharanas were weighed here against gold and silver on their birthdays — the gates kept the ritual.
The peacock court
- WHERE
- Mor Chowk, the peacock courtyard on the City Palace visitor route
- FOCUS
- One mosaic peacock edge to edge; a child beneath it, looking up
- HOW
- Stand square to the wall, phone upright, tap on the glass
SHOT 04 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Follow the museum route to Mor Chowk and wait for the group ahead to move on.
- 2Stand square to one peacock panel, close enough that it fills the frame.
- 3Put one child beneath it, looking up.
- 4Hold the phone upright and straight.
- 5Tap on the mosaic and shoot; no flash — the glass does the shining.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Mor Chowk, City Palace museum route
- The Badi Mahal garden court above, for the lake-framed windows
- BEST LIGHT
- any open hour (9:30–17:30)
- PHONE
- Portrait · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTSajjan Singh's nineteenth-century mosaics — the court's taste for glass and mirror in one wall.
Jagdish's carved columns
- WHERE
- Jagdish Temple, up the steps from the palace lane
- FOCUS
- The carved columns edge to edge; your family on the steps beneath
- HOW
- Stand across the lane, phone upright, tilt up a little
SHOT 05 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Climb to the temple mid-morning, shoes off at the top.
- 2Stand on the steps below the main hall, family a few steps above you looking up at the carving.
- 3Hold the phone upright and tilt up so the columns fill the frame.
- 4Tap on the carved stone, not the sky.
- 5Shoot between the bells — the temple is alive, not a museum.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Jagdish Temple, the main hall's outer columns
- The elephant frieze at the base of the platform
- BEST LIGHT
- mid-morning, in open shade
- PHONE
- Portrait · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTJagat Singh's 1651 temple — the city's living centre since the palace was young.
The lake from the hill
- WHERE
- Sajjangarh, the Monsoon Palace, on the ridge west of the city
- FOCUS
- Your family at the wall; lakes below; hills to the horizon
- HOW
- Elbows on the parapet, phone sideways, three layers
SHOT 06 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Take a car or auto up to Sajjangarh in the morning while the air is clear (afternoons haze).
- 2Sit your family on the parapet, backs to you, looking at the lakes.
- 3Hold the phone sideways; brace your elbows.
- 4Family and wall low, lakes in the middle, hills on top.
- 5Tap on the lakes and shoot.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Sajjangarh (Monsoon Palace) ramparts
- The Badi Mahal rooftop garden inside the City Palace, for the lake close-up
- BEST LIGHT
- morning, clear air
- PHONE
- Landscape · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTThe palace a Maharana built to watch the monsoon arrive — the whole of Mewar's water in one look.
The boat wake
- WHERE
- A boat from the City Palace jetty, late afternoon
- FOCUS
- Your family at the bow; the Lake Palace sliding past behind
- HOW
- Sit at the front, phone sideways, shoot back along the boat
SHOT 07 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Take the public boat from the City Palace jetty in the last two hours of light.
- 2Sit your family at the bow, backs to you, looking at the Lake Palace.
- 3Hold the phone sideways from a row behind them.
- 4Tap on the white palace so it keeps its detail.
- 5Shoot as it passes — you get one slow minute.
PLACES THAT WORK
- The Rameshwar Ghat jetty inside the City Palace complex
- The Jag Mandir boat, for the longer circuit
- BEST LIGHT
- late afternoon, into golden hour
- PHONE
- Landscape · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTJag Niwas, 1740s, a prince's pleasure palace — guests only, and better from a boat anyway.
Jag Mandir's elephants
- WHERE
- Jag Mandir island, on the boat circuit
- FOCUS
- The row of marble elephants; your family among them, the palace behind
- HOW
- Stand on the jetty, phone upright, elephants in a line
SHOT 08 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Get off at Jag Mandir and walk to the elephant jetty.
- 2Put your family beside the elephants, looking back at the city.
- 3Hold the phone upright so the elephants line up into the distance.
- 4Tap on the white marble.
- 5Shoot with the City Palace across the water behind them.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Jag Mandir's elephant jetty
- BEST LIGHT
- late afternoon
- PHONE
- Portrait · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTPrince Khurram took refuge here from his father in 1623 and, tradition says, took its marble inlay with him to the Taj.
The painter's stroke
- WHERE
- A miniature-painting atelier in the palace lanes
- FOCUS
- The painter's hands and the brush; your child watching, close
- HOW
- Get low beside the table, phone upright, no flash
SHOT 09 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Ask at an atelier in the Jagdish lanes whether you may watch and photograph — most say yes if you're buying.
- 2Kneel at table height beside the painter.
- 3Put your child on the other side, watching the brush.
- 4Hold the phone upright, close; tap on the brush tip.
- 5Shoot mid-stroke.
PLACES THAT WORK
- The ateliers along the lane from Jagdish Temple to the palace
- Bagore ki Haveli's craft rooms
- BEST LIGHT
- workshop hours, window light
- PHONE
- Portrait · 1× close
WHY THIS SHOTMewar's miniature school — the court's painters, still at the same tables.
The monsoon palace at sunset
- WHERE
- Sajjangarh's western walls, the last hour before sunset
- FOCUS
- The low sun; your family in silhouette at the parapet; the lakes going gold
- HOW
- Tap on the sky; don't zoom
SHOT 10 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Be up at Sajjangarh a full hour before sunset (it's busy; arrive early for a wall spot).
- 2Stand the family at the parapet, slightly to one side.
- 3Hold the phone sideways.
- 4Tap on the sky so they go dark and the colour stays.
- 5Keep shooting through the ten minutes after the sun goes.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Sajjangarh (Monsoon Palace)
- Ambrai Ghat at lake level, for the palace-lit version
- Karni Mata ropeway hill, for the city-and-lake version
- BEST LIGHT
- last hour before sunset
- PHONE
- Landscape · 1×
WHY THIS SHOTThe sunset ledger's top entry — the whole city's reason for being, lit once a day.
Gangaur Ghat at blue hour
- WHERE
- Gangaur Ghat and the lane to Jagdish, twenty minutes after sunset
- FOCUS
- Your family walking away along the ghat, lamps on, the palace lit across the water
- HOW
- Five paces behind, night mode, shoot mid-step
SHOT 11 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Walk the ghat in the half hour after sunset.
- 2Let the family walk ahead, hand in hand, along the water.
- 3Hold the phone upright, night mode on, elbows in.
- 4Tap on the lit palace across the water.
- 5Shoot when they're mid-step.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Gangaur Ghat → Bagore ki Haveli
- The lane up to Jagdish Temple
- BEST LIGHT
- blue hour, 10–40 min after sunset
- PHONE
- Portrait · night mode
WHY THIS SHOTThe frame that will mean most in ten years — the family inside the living city.
The lake, lit
- WHERE
- A rooftop over Pichola, an hour after sunset
- FOCUS
- The floodlit Lake Palace; the edge of your table below
- HOW
- Rest the phone on the table, night mode on
SHOT 12 OF TWELVE · DO THIS, IN ORDER
- 1Book a lake-view rooftop for the last dinner and ask for a table at the rail.
- 2Wait for the Lake Palace lights with colour still in the sky.
- 3Wipe the lens; night mode on.
- 4Rest the phone on the rail or the table.
- 5A glass soft at the bottom, the lit palace on the water, and shoot.
PLACES THAT WORK
- Ambrai, at Amet Haveli — the classic lake-level table
- Upre, at Lake Pichola Hotel's rooftop
- Jagat Niwas Palace rooftop
- BEST LIGHT
- 15–60 min after sunset
- PHONE
- Landscape · night mode, braced
WHY THIS SHOTThe closing image — a city that floats, seen from the last table.
All twelve, with the standing position, the light window and the steps for each, are inside The Udaipur Guide and on the Udaipur Shot List. These aren’t photography tips. These twelve photographs become your book.
COMING NEXTGuide My Shot — a creative director in your hand. Stand where it says and it finds the light, the position and the frame for you, for anyone who wants the thinking taken out of the picture. You can do it without it, if you’re good at following instructions.
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Watch Out For
TOURIST TRAP
The sunset boat shuffle
Boat prices jump steeply for the sunset slot, and touts sell 'sunset' tickets for boats that leave an hour early. Buy at the official jetty counters and confirm the departure time you mean.
TOURIST TRAP
The 'art student' invitation
A friendly 'painting student' invites you to see 'the school' — which is a showroom, with commission built into every miniature. Real ateliers don't recruit on the ghats; visit ours or ask your guesthouse for working studios.
GOOD TO KNOW
The lakes have moods
Pichola is rain-fed: in a weak-monsoon year the levels drop and the mirror shrinks. Check recent photos before anchoring your plans to the water — the city is still lovely; the postcards are seasonal.
What It Costs
Entry fees below were read off the City Palace Museum and the Rajasthan forest department's booking portal and HRH on 24 August 2026. They change without notice — check before you go. Street prices for food, lassi and autos move week to week, so we give typical ranges, not quotes. The sunset boat is where budgets quietly leak — decide what it's worth to you in advance.
$1 ≈ ₹95 (FBIL reference rate, verified 23 August 2026)
| City Palace museum (one fee, all nationalities) | ₹400 |
| Pichola boat to Jag Mandir (day / sunset) | ₹600 / ₹800 |
| Dharohar folk show, Bagore ki Haveli | ≈ ₹150 foreign / ₹90 Indian (+₹150 camera) |
| Sajjangarh — sanctuary ticket, which is also the palace ticket | ₹500 foreign / ₹150 Indian, + ₹300 per car |
| Rooftop dinner for two, lake view | ≈ ₹800 – 2,000 |
| Auto-rickshaw across the old city | ≈ ₹80 – 150 |
| Kumbhalgarh & Ranakpur day car | ≈ ₹3,000 – 4,000 |
What to Bring Home
Getting Around
And because you read this far
The Udaipur Food Guide — our gift, no catch.
Seven dishes of the lake city with their stories, spices and honest home recipes — jal jeera to sitaphal rabri. Free to download, made to be cooked the week you get home.
The full guide
Everything above is the appetizer.
The 32-page Udaipur guide adds the full story of Mewar with a dated timeline, the City Palace feature, checklist itineraries, the Ghat-to-Ghat walk, and the 12-frame Shot List — designed to read, print and carry.