The good folks over at Flickr are hosting a photo competition that ties in with the Design Cities exhibition being held at London's Design Museum. The exhibit, for its part, "tells the story of contemporary design through cities (London, Paris, Vienna, Dessau, Los Angeles, Milan and Tokyo) at their creative height."

The contest has few restrictions; any photo that represents contemporary design in your city is OK. Whether it's architecture, furniture, interiors or mailboxes, as long as it's great design, it's game.

A selection of photographs will be displayed at the Design Museum in January 2009, and one photo will be printed on 80,000 posters that are to be distributed in creative outlets around the UK.

Related Stories:
· Your Design City [Official Site]
· Design Cities Exhibition [Official Site]
· Design Travel Coverage [Jaunted]]]> Dan Gould 2008-10-02T14:30:38-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/10/1/171710/874

While some people might say spontaneous beer pong is the best thing about Sydney Harbour, after seeing this video we're inclined to say it's the photo ops that are tops.

This clip, one of a three-part series from Vimeo user Keith Loutit, was shot with tilt-shift lenses on a Canon A-Series camera--which means these are real scenes, not renderings.

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· Bathtub II [Vimeo]
· Bathtub III [Vimeo]
· Beached [Vimeo]
· Tilt-Shift Photography [Wikipedia]
· More Travel Videos [Jaunted]]]> pbb 2008-10-01T17:18:04-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/6/10/231925/379

This weekend's New York Times travel section was all about photography, and after wading through the personal essays and self-indulgent itineraries, we learned some things about the gaggle of photosharing sites out there on the Interwebs.

Writer Michelle Higgins breaks down the new offerings of sites like Flickr and SmugMug, notably their new geotagging capabilities. In other words, not only can you add descriptors like "over-hyped" and "under construction" to your photos of Six Columbus, you can also add it's address: "6 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019." Once your pics are tagged, you--or anyone else--can look them up on a map. Michelle had a really good take on how tourists could use geotagging:

Fans of graffiti can search the word, "graffiti," and "New York City," at Flickr.com/map, and pull up photos of freshly painted tags, all plotted with pushpins on a clickable Yahoo map. A search for "Dumbo Brooklyn graffiti," for example, finds some 99 photos, including the infamous "Neck Face" tag, spray-painted on a brick warehouse at Jay and Front Streets in Brooklyn. Try finding that in a guidebook.

We're still mystified why she didn't mention the Jaunted Flickr photo pool. It's chock-full of candid travel snaps. You have added your photos to our group, haven't you?

Related Stories:
· Get Your Travel Photos Published [Jaunted]
· Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends [NYT]

[Photo: Peter Arkle for the New York Times]]]> pbb 2007-06-11T09:29:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/4/14/122350/430
Doing its best to avoid yet another predictable "Send us your best travel photos!" feature, the London Times magazine asks for "smugshots" instead -- each week the most self-satisfied and envy-producing image wins its photographer a magnum of champagne. Much better than the polite boredom and discreet eye-rolling such photos are likely to produce in friends and family.]]> johnrambow 2006-04-14T12:23:50-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/12/13/11458/492

Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY.

This Dutch website bands together streams of amateur photography from all over the world and displays the photos in map format.

The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world.

More than 30,000 worldwide photos can be found on the site.]]> markj 2005-12-13T11:04:58-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/