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Going Places with Flickr Places

A Vagabondish post tipped us off on the latest happenings at Flickr: the introduction of the Flickr Places feature. Since the photo-sharing site put up a particularly neat map of the world, the Flickr gang is quite excited about letting us travel the world through photographs submitted by people everywhere.

Basically, because members geotag their pictures, you can search for a location on Flickr Places and be taken to see all the snaps that have been taken there. Search for Rockefeller Center, for example, and Flickr will zoom in and pull up pictures of the Christmas tree and ice skating.

The front page of Places has an ever-rotating pick of six different places around the world, and you can pick the places that interest you and find out what there is to see there. It's bit of desktop travel that's perfect for daydreaming between vacations.

Related Stories:
· Flickr Introduces a Page For Every Place in the World [Vagabondish]
· Flickr Places [Official Site]

[Photo: Flickr Places]

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A Monument to the Strange

It's Monday, so you probably don't want to work your brain too hard. We'll help you out: Check out this roster of strange monuments across the world. It's enough weird sculpture to keep you scractching your head for at least the rest of the day. While it's tempting to pick the giant thumb as our favorite, we kind of like the Slovakian photographer the best. Mostly, we wish these pictures were issued as a series of trading cards--that'd be a great way to scare small children and get your travel chuckles at the same time.
 
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·   Strange Monuments [Architecture Portal News]

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He's got the HEL Looks

Sorry, we can't resist those stylish Europeans. Especially when they are Finns in need of some droogs! O, my brothers, HEL Looks is real horrorshow. Viddy well!  Sorry, we'll stop.

HEL Looks is a site, like Still in Berlin, that chronicles Helsinki street fashion. Remember, they've got a small window of time when they don't have to cut open a seal and wear it for warmth over there, which makes their fashion choices all the more impressive, we think.

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·   Around the World in 80 Pants [Jaunted]

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Ex Post Facto

A great tradition in travel is the postcard. Send it to friends and family or hold onto them for a record of what you've seen. It's like having a official snapshot of a vacation. Or proof of being a "boob inspector".

But they are also records of a time and place. Photographer and Filmmaker Julien Donada is what we'll call a postcard archeologist. He visits the places pictured in old postcards and documents the changes in the same frame of the photo. This has taken him to California, Bulgaria, Paris, and Instanbul, to name a few.

We just can't wait till he finds a postcard from Las Vegas sixty years ago. Nary a buffet in sight!

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·   I Was There [The Morning News]

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Photo Find: Boss Tweed's Manhattan

Boss Tweed has a great set of New York City photos that have been featured around the web.

The photo above is of 25 Fifth Avenue beween 9th & 10th streets.

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·   25 Fifth Avenue [Flickr via cityrag]

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Girls Make Out In Tiananmen Square

Communism is all about sharing, right?

[image via KennethInShanghai]

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Travel Photographer of the Year

Think you've heard the name Blaine Harrington II before? Nope, not a relative of Thurston Howell's. Blaine's been named Travel Photographer of the Year for the second time in a row by the Society of American Travel Writers.

He recommends making other people comfortable when catching them with your lens- "People will open up to you if they realize you really like them, and that will come through in the photo."

One of Blaine's pics is featured above-check out his site for more...

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Photogs Wanted!

Just a little friendly reminder to y'all about our Jaunted photo pool  on Flckr. It's the depository for your first-class travel photographs. You send 'em in, we put 'em up. It's that simple. We're sure with the holidays coming you're revving up your cameras!

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PyramidCam

Fodor's alerts us to a new web cam that's pretty novel. It's completely of the pyramids at Giza. PyramidCam.com gets more than 1,000 shots a day of the famed pyramids-at daybreak, dusk, sunset-some are pretty spectacular. They've also got a 'best of' section too of course. A nice break from the zoo cam you've been forcing everyone in your office to endure.

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·   Live Pics of Pyramids at Giza [Fodors]

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Park Panoramics

If you're the outdoorsy type and are confined to a cubicle all day, you've got to check out Virtual Parks.org. The site has an awesome feature of the top 25 best panoramics of parks across the country. Each of the photos captures a full 360 view, you can click and zoom as much as you please.

Drool over them, make one your wallpaper and come back and visit often. Pretty soon you'll feel like there's a breath of fresh, piney air in your gray-walled cube.

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Operation Eden

The blog for the podcast Tracks Up the Tree clued us into the work of Clayton James Cubitt, a photographer taking unsettling portraits of the victims of Katrina (this includes himself and his family). They're good. Have a look.

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Picture Perfect

DailyCandy exposes more tips to keep pictures taken on vacation fresh:

They include some less-than-obvious ones such as budgeting about two rolls of film per day, avoiding midday sunlight (too harsh) and remembering narrative duties. Sometimes pictures of the meals you ate, your friend passed out on the beach, that random roadside goat or a roadsign make the best keepsakes.

When shooting subjects make sure you're at eye-level with them, esp kids and pets. And chronicling the worst travel disasters-that wrong path you took, where you ran out of gas-actually do turn into something you can laugh at later.

And while you're snapping away...don't forget the Jaunted Flickr photo pool, submit your travel pics and we just might post them right here...

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·   Travel: Picture Perfect [Daily Candy]