Photo of the day 7.6.09

by Karen Walrond on

By the time you’re reading this, my family and I will have just landed in New York City for a quick little holiday. In preparation for our trip, I was surfing the Gadling Flickr pool, and came across this really stunning view of Manhattan, with New Jersey off in the distance. I’m really looking forward to this trip, and this moody image, shared by nabil.s, just perfectly sets the tone. Lovely capture.

If you’ve got some great travel shots you’d love to share, be sure to upload them to the Gadling pool on Flickr. We might just pick one as our Photo of the Day.

Photo of the Day (7.5.09)

by Jeremy Kressmann on

Today’s photo comes to us from Flickr user andreakw, who captured these brightly colored beach shacks during her visit to Melbourne, Australia. The bold paint schemes and quirky color choices immediately caught my eye. You can almost picture yourself sitting there, staring at these shacks, rows of beachgoers thronging about and laughing in the rolling surf behind you.

Have any photos from your travels you’d like to share? Why not add them to our Gadling group on Flickr? We might just pick one of your shots as our next Photo of the Day.

Photo of the Day (7.4.09)

by Brenda Yun on


Happy Fourth of July everyone! I know you were probably expecting a photo of fireworks, but this photo really spoke to me as a natural firework in the sky. I’m not a huge fan of fireworks anyway — at least not in the physical sense. I am, however, a huge proponent of emotional fireworks, and photos like this set those off for me. The world is a beautiful, wondrous place. And we should appreciate the freedom (it’s Independence Day) and luxury (we live in the United States of America) to travel the world and snap photos like this one.

Today’s Photo of the Day comes to us from one of my favorite Gadling photographers, localsurfer. This one was taken on a journey down the Rufiji River in Tanzania on a quest for surf. There are hippoes in that water!

If you have some great travel shots you’d like to share, be sure to upload them to the Gadling pool on Flickr. We might just pick one as our Photo of the Day!

Photo of the Day (7.3.09)

by Aaron Hotfelder on


Flickr user bellumdeos submitted this photo (click to enlarge) of a yurt in Inner Mongolia, China. Something about the vast steppes of Northern China and Mongolia has always attracted me to the region– perhaps the way the nomadic families who live there can pack up and move yurts like these at a moment’s notice.

It’s proof that, to quote Joe Dirt, “Home is where you make it.” Always important words for a traveler to remember.

Want your photo considered for Gadling’s Photo of the Day? Submit your best shots here.

Photo of the Day (7/2/09)

by Kent Wien on

Styggiti took this HDR shot at Kenwood, California. The tone mapping technique used isn’t too unrealistic, and because of the wonderful detail and stunning sky, I think it deserves a spot in Gadling’s Photo of the Day.

HDR photography combines three or more images that are shot at different exposures and combined using some sort of HDR software to create a rather stunning shot. Occasionally the pictures can look a bit too science fiction, but Styggiti managed to get just the right amount of detail in this picture of a winery in California.

Are you a Flickr user who’d like to share a travel related picture or two for our consideration? Submit it to Gadling’s Flickr group right now! We just might use it for our Photo of the Day!