Photo of the day (8-27-09)

I’ve always wanted to visit Iceland, and this picture from LoriGoldberg only adds to the temptation. She captures a geothermal area with boiling mudpools and steaming fumaroles called Námafjall in the northern part of Iceland.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Lori! Nice shot.

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Photo of the Day (8-26-09)

Anyone who has traveled in a developing country may notice how this photo by TR Ryan captures perfectly the ingredients of every day village life. See it as a check list, if you will. Chickens? check. Goat? check. Plastic cup? check. Flip flops and bare feet? check and check. A bit of old rusty corrugate serving as a partial wall? check. Bicycle? check. It almost doesn’t matter in which country the scene is set. The ingredients will be the same.

If Dutch painter Jan Vermeer were alive today, he’d turn this shot into a painting. Instead of the woman pouring milk into a bowl, as his subject does in, “The Kitchen Maid,” he would encapsulate in oil and canvas the life of this woman where she lives in Villa Esperanza, Nicaragua ensuring that her children get a meal.

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Photo of the day 8.24.09

Today was my daughter’s first day of kindergarten — and so it begins. Regardless of what day school actually starts, it always feels like the official end-of-summer-beginning-of-fall to me. And is it me, or did summer just fly by this year?

Because of this, I find myself craving images of the summer, in a desperate attempt to cling to the last of the Season of Fun — and this photograph shared by Cazimiro in the Gadling Flickr pool certainly does the trick. An excellent capture, to help hang on to the end of summer.

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Photo of the Day (8.22.09)

There´s something both totally fitting yet out of place in this photo. The London Tower Bridge, as I see it, is one of the most famous bridges in the world because of its age and history. While the bridge that stands over the River Thames today was built in the 19681894, I like to imagine it as a throwback to the days of old. And while the postmodern streams of red and purple lights add nice contrast to this image, it seems like London (just like any other place) has to find that nice blend between old and new.

Needless to say, this photo taken by jrodmanjr is quite stunning. The blur of pedestrians and the streaks of light make for a perfect image of the today´s London.

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Photo of the Day (8.21.09)

Flickr user AnBok Photography submitted this unique up-and-down landscape shot taken on a rolling two-lane road in the state of Washington. This photo is a reminder, for all the amateur photographers out there, that creatively-sized and interestingly-cropped photographs are often very striking. I think the many layers of this shot, from pavement to hills to white clouds to dark clouds, look fantastic stacked on top of one another like this.

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