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New York 1953 To Today: Going 'Kodaking'
Times Square and Central Park attract tourists to New York City in droves, but what were the most exciting sights back in the 1950s? Thanks to an old tourist brochure from 1953, we're exploring back in the day versus today, for NYC tourists.
According to the brochure, "there are almost as many cameras enthusiasts in America as there are residents." We don't know what kind of Kodak film they were sniffing back in the '50s, but we beg to differ. Nonetheless, NYC is like a hyper picturebook, and tourists definitely take advantage of the urban grit just as much as the picturesque skyline when it comes to photography.
Hoping to snap a few pictures of the local color along with The Statue of Liberty for your New York vacation album? Let's see what the old 1953 guidebook recommends for "Kodaking in Gotham..."
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Make Mini Memories On Polaroid's Bluetooth PoGo Printer
We know, we know; no one needs more mobile tech crap to have to lug around with them on a trip, but we have to admit to being dazzled by gadgets that will in any way add to our travel photography while still being pocket-sized. Enter the Polaroid PoGo Mobile Printer, which debuted last year but still seems to be hanging on as far as blatantly unnecessary accessories go.
That's right, we said "blatantly unnecessary." Sorry Polaroid, but let's face the fact that you are good at one thing only: artsy, white-framed instant snapshots, and you don't even produce that film anymore! With the PoGo, which is happily about the size of an iPhone, a bluetooth device such as a smartphone with nice camera capabilities can wirelessly send its shots to be printed as 3x2-inch stickers from this dohicky.
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Mel Gibson's Vacation Photos Doom Marriage
Now there's one vacation better left stored in the halls of memory than on a memory card. Mel Gibson's wife filed for divorce yesterday after 28 years of more-or-less wedded bliss, reportedly over vacation photos of Mel and his new girlfriend.
Robyn Gibson cited the usual "irreconcilable differences" when she filed suit in California this week, but tabloids everywhere are blaming Oksana Pochepa, a Russian singer/model signed to Mel's Australian record label. (Yes, he has one!) Mel was seen with her, or perhaps another bikini-clad beauty, kissing in the surf in Costa Rica about a month ago, so the ol' "We're just friends" is probably not going to work.
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TSA Says Maybe To Photos, Yes To Boring Us To Death
As they are so apt to do, the TSA took an opportunity to publicly obfuscate an issue on its Evolution of Security blog this week. The topic: Photography at airports -- can you do it? The answer: Well... On one hand, it's okay if you don't bother anyone or slow down the checkpoint line; on the other hand, you should not "be surprised if someone (TSA, airport police, or a curious passenger) asks you what you’re up to."
Also, the state, city or airport may have its own rules, which apparently TSA can't override despite being a national agency and the First Amendment and can't you just wait to take that profile picture till you get home, Ansel Badams?
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TravelMuse Wants Your Vacation Snaps
Got an eye for travel? Online trip planner TravelMuse wants you to help them illustrate their finds, and they're ponying up a wireless memory card for it.
Since we have been known to get lost in a reverie while searching Flickr for that perfect shot to illuminate our own helpful hints, we can see how TravelMuse might be looking for a little help. You can enter up to three photos in this month's contest, whose theme is "Essence of Place," by uploading them to the TravelMuse Contests Flickr group before February 28 and writing a short blurb about where you were shooting. No professional photographers and no aggressive Photoshopping allowed!
Oh yeah, and did you know Jaunted has its own Flickr pool? Check out what we're viewing and show us what you've seen. We won't give you anything but our love, but that's pretty substantial, isn't it?
Related Stories:
· Essence of Place February Photo Contest [TravelMuse.com]
· Good Morning: NYT Goes With the Brazilian Bikini Babe Photo for "44 Places To Go" Story [Jaunted]
· Your Vacation Photos Don't Bore Us To Tears [Jaunted]
[Photo of a young shutterbug in the Maldives: muha]
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Good Morning: NYT Goes With the Brazilian Bikini Babe Photo for '44 Places to Go' Story
Robust offerings from the travel section of The New York Times this weekend, who sagely went with the Brazilian bikini babe photo to lead its 44 Places to Go in 2009 coverage. We're in a major recession here, and it's below freezing outside, so you might as well bring on the flesh. The suntanned, tattooed dancing lady holding a ... what is that, ginger ale? Anyway, she's in Florianópolis, Brazil, and in the uncropped photo that accompanies the article she's surrounded by three equally fit dudes wearing snug shorts and smoking cigarettes. Isn't it great how travel stories can always get some extra oomph from using sexy photos, because they can simply argue that they're capturing the essence of the destination?
In any case, Florianópolis does seem like a pretty great place to party the North American winter away, with more than forty beaches and scores of stylish restaurants and bars, but we're a bit more interested in destinations like Zambia. As the paper of record points out, Zambia is emerging as a safari capital to rival the big three of Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, and the new Toka Leya Camp - well positioned just seven miles from Victoria Falls - is leading the charge. I've seen the falls, and they are indeed spectacular, so to combine that experience with some safari action (and a comfortable bed) would indeed be transcendent. As far as über-luxury escapes that we can't quite afford right now go, there's Phuket, Thailand. With "some of the most luxe accommodations on the planet," we'll have to settle for looking at the pretty pictures.
[Photo: The New York Times]
Related Stories:
· The 44 Places to Go in 2009 [The New York Times]
· International Party Time Coverage [Jaunted]
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Design Travel: Your Design City Photo Contest
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]
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Adventures of Link: Tiny Sydney Harbour
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.
Related Stories:
· Bathtub II [Vimeo]
· Bathtub III [Vimeo]
· Beached [Vimeo]
· Tilt-Shift Photography [Wikipedia]
· More Travel Videos [Jaunted]
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Your Vacation Photos Don't Bore Us To Tears
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]
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Where Smugness is a Virtue
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.
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Travel Photos Mapped
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.
