Photo of the Day (3/1/07)

by Neil Woodburn on

There ought to be a whole photo gallery featuring nothing but monks using modern technology. I can’t tell you the number of times someone thought it necessary to snap a photo of a monk talking on a cell phone and then share it with the world. This is the first I’ve seen, however, of monks shooting themselves with a camera. What really makes the photo, however, is the wonderful orange of their tunics contrasting against the misty browns of Angkor Wat. The contrast is so startling it looks as though they’ve been artificially dropped into the photograph. I love it.

Congrats go out once again to LadyExpat who photographed monks photographing themselves and did a fantastic job of it.

Photo of the Day (2/28/07)

by Adrienne Wilson on

Being two days away from my upcoming island vacation it’s easy to guess why I chose this picture. Clear blue water, soft sandy shore and shoes off to explore make this photo taken at Costa Rica’s Cahuita National Park a real prize. Uploaded into the Gadling Flickr pool by Philip Peter, his notes indicate it was summer 2004 and that he used a compact analog Minolta, negative film and manually scanned. End result equals a pretty nice shot.

Photo of the Day (2/27/2007)

by Erik Olsen on

I’m fairly sure that the photographer of this shot, morrissey, is not the musician, so I suppose I should leave out any opinion about said crooner’s music. But if I were to judge his photographic talent, well, I’d give it a pretty substantive thumbs up. Or at least ,I’d say, nice job on picking out this shot, because it is lovely. The shot, of a cascading waterfall (wait, is there any other kind?) comes from…well, I’m not sure from where, but my guess is Peru since the caption is in Spanish and the photo comes from a Peru photo stream. No matter. It’s a great shot worth of our POTD honors.

Photo of the day (2/25/2007)

by Erik Olsen on

An absolutely wonderful shot of Yosemite gets our coveted Photo of the Day honors today. The shot, by Funkiller, an odd name, I think, brings out the incredible majesty of the Valley. Of course, on a day like the one here, these kind of images can shoot themselves, but still ,it kind of takes the breath away. It made me want to pack my camera and head to Yosemite right now.