Photo of the day: Croatian winter sunset

by Alex Robertson Textor on

Wow. Wintertime is awesome, even if not every Croatian winter sunset can be quite as breathtaking as this one. Flickr user mmusnjak captured this sunset in Croatia’s Northern Velebit National Park in February. In his photo notes on Flickr he mentions casually that he hiked for three hours through snow to reach this point.

Let’s see more winter photos on Gadling before the season yields to spring. Upload your snowy fields, your icy rivers and your frostbitten fingers to the Gadling Group Pool on Flickr. (Ok, not your frostbitten fingers! Avoid frostbite!) We choose our favorites from the pool to be Photos of the Day. Let’s finish winter right!

Photo of the Day: the greener side of Antarctica

by Meg Nesterov on

We see a lot of amazing images from Antarctica, some with jaw-dropping glaciers and icebergs, others with cuddlier subjects like penguins. Seeing the greener side of Antarctica is rarer, as we tend to envision the continent as perennially covered in ice and snow. While no trees and few leafy plants grow there, you can still see green fields like the one above captured by Flickr user SummitVoice1 on some of the sub-Antarctic islands. The almost plush animal-like chinstrap penguins pop against the background of green grass and white feathers.

Add your unusual travel photos to the Gadling Flickr pool and you may see one featured as a future Photo of the Day.

Photo of the Day: Pueblos blancos of Vejer de la Frontera

by Jessica Marati on

Today’s Photo of the Day depicts a stunning vista of white homes and colorful rooftops in Vejer de la Frontera, a tiny hilltop town at the tip of Spain overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The town, like many in the Andalusian region, is split into two parts: the old Moorish medieval quarter and the newer district with characteristic pueblos blancos, pictured here. Flickr user Kurt Schmidt captured this image using a Canon EOS 7D on a recent jaunt through Spain.

Does your photo belong here? Upload your favorite travel shots, whether pro or Instagram, to the Gadling Group Pool and your image could be selected as our Photo of the Day.

Video of the Day: Tilt-shift Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro

by Mike Barish on

Carnaval (or, as we like to write it, Carnival) was last week, but we’re just not done celebrating here at Gadling HQ. This video is from Carnaval 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, but we can’t stop watching it. Of course, we love tilt-shift and this video uses the technique perfectly. Though, we’d like some explanation about why it opens with someone getting rescued from the ocean by a helicopter. Well, Carnaval is crazy like that.

Photo of the Day: Horse in Torres del Paine

by Jeremy Kressmann on

Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, located at the southern end of South America, is the kind of place you romanticize when you think of wild, unspoiled nature. I’ve never been, but I have a vision in my head of towering pinnacles of rock, windswept fields of grass, and serene babbling brooks. It turns out the real thing is just as beautiful – Flickr user LeaningLeft snapped this wonderful shot of a horse bathed in sunlight, set against the park’s majestic mountain-scape.

Taken any great photos during your own travels? Why not add them to our Gadling group on Flickr? We might just pick one of yours as our Photo of the Day.