GADLING’S TAKE FIVE: Week of April 22

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Time to catch up on some of what you may have missed over the week… Without delay let’s hop right to it!

5. Write for Wend:
Here is your chance to get your travel writing out there and into a new glossy. Don’t save all those adventure tales for the grandkids – write for Wend and share them with us all.

4. 24 Hours of Flickr:
This May 5th Flickr is calling all around the world to photograph their daily routine and submit one single great photo from the day for an event/project called 24 Hours of Flickr. While something like such has been done before, it is still awesome to participate in if you haven’t before and love the Flickr community.

3. Environmentalist Greats Tour:
Heal the world and make it a better place – Yes? Then why not head out on one of these mean-green-eco-machine type tours… Okay, they aren’t mean, but you get the picture.

2. Underwater Post Offices and Mailboxes Around the World:
I have a hard enough time finding a post office on land and I’m not one of the greatest swimmers, so going underwater to mail off a package isn’t quite my thing. For those who do love exploring the ocean fully clad in scuba gear and discovering new exotic creatures (like underwater mailboxes) please send me a little something when you’re down there. I’d appreciate it.

1. A Canadian In Beijing: Two-Wheeled Matrimony:
Ember doesn’t stop does she? In fact she recently found a bike to keep her going and going in the land where bicycles almost totally rule the road. See what’s happening in Beijing now that she has her first set of wheels.

Photo of the Day (10/28/06)

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I’ve been to Philly about two or three times and have never seen the city from under the Schuykill River bridges like this. Luminous Lens notes after much debate she decided to take her camera outside although there was overcast and came back with two shots. This was one of them and personally I think it’s great. The muted colors and browns in the photo all look really visually attractive here. Even with the slight murky feeling this shot makes me want to see this secret place underneath Philly’s bridges.

Photo of the Day (10/25/06)

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Question – As travel photographers are we just suckers for children or are they really that cute? Seriously! I know I’ve taken a good handful of pictures of the foreign youngsters in the past. With most of my shots I always found extremely big bright eyes looking into the lens accompanied by goofy childish grins and giggles frozen in time. Here it feels like quite the opposite. We’ve got two very adorable young girls both sampling what looks like some overly delicious vanilla ice cream on cones. Neither seems interested in the camera and the one on the left looks more interested in her friend’s ice cream than her own. Very nice shot from vyxle taken in Japan and I love the fog in the background.

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Photo of the Day (10/18/06)

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Wow – what a breath of fresh air! Scubadiver who surely had to have been on land for this shot brings up the crisp and clear photo of dew resting on a rose petal. This one was captured just after a rain fall in Oregon which leads me to believe that even if isn’t surf Scubadiver still likes playing in water found on turf. Excellent macro piece!

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Photo of the Day (10/14/06)

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Look in the sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane… Yes, yes, it is a plane, but look at those clouds! Today’s POTD comes from Patrick Powers who notes that the previous day’s rain showers created some “wicked clouds” over Redwood Shores in California. The plane looks so tiny like it is going to be swallowed by the fat fluffy clouds within seconds. I’m also willing to bet there was some wicked turbulence flying around clouds like that.