Harbun in Northern China has an ice sculpture festival every year. Check out the pics:
Category: photos
if anything unifies “the rest of Canada”
… it’s being irked at Toronto thinking itself the centre of the universe.
larger version on flickr – by ryandt33
Thanks Warren and BoingBoing
the Peanut Butter Manifesto – dumb
Yahoo! is a great company, but one which can do no right lately.
Yahoo Sr. VP Jerry Maguire Brad Garlinghouse seemingly leaked a critical memo now dubbed the “peanut butter manifesto“. He called for radical change in the company.
It’s generating more heat than light.
Even I’m ticked off by his hint of merging awesome flickr with lousy Yahoo Photos. Yahoo! owns both products.
Flickr isn’t just technology. Yes, it’s a great UI with a killer back-end and open APIs. But it’s communities. It’s a sense of place. It’s love. …
I have almost 13,000 pictures on Flickr. I love the company, the people who created it, the fact that they don’t think they own my data, that they have open APIs, and that they have created, single-handedly, with no patents and no (or little if any) IP, a whole new market ecosystem for digital photography. A big high-five and a toast to that.
As a photographer, I have a relationship with Flickr. Not with Yahoo. That’s not to say I don’t have relationships with Yahoo, or that I don’t respect Yahoo. I have lots of relationships with Yahoo, and lots of respect for the company. But my relationship with Flickr predates and transcends my relationships with Yahoo. (In fact, I hate the clunky way I was forced to “merge” the logins for both.)
The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, November 20, 2006
Whatever happened to Jerry Maguire’s Manifesto, anyway?
another baby photo – Jessica
This is Sandra and Gregi’s baby, Jessica, age 11-weeks.
new baby – Christopher Brennan
My good friend ET (Elaine Tyerman) just delivered an early Christmas present.
A month early.
Mom and the new baby boy both doing well though they are watching Christopher closely. He weighed in at 4lbs, 12ozs.
more baby pictures on flickr – Warren Long
Congratulations ET!
Looking forward to meeting the boy at New Years. Will bring Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.
west Calgary vista
On one of the small properties in the west hills of Calgary, rapidly being engulfed by residential communities, is this Inukshuk.
It’s a shame so many houses are being thrown up so quickly. And so close together.
This stone man will not be here much longer.
Click the image for a larger version.
Latitudes – best on-line travel magazine
Wow!
This is by far the best translation of the magazine experience to the internet I’ve seen.
Click the corner of the page and it rolls over. But with some interactivity.
Latitudes makes other on-line magazines look dull.
Lusciously photographed Latitudes Magazine has got a new issue out today and I take seriously my responsibility to let others know about this superb travel magazine. I hardly ever hear other people talking about Latitudes, and that is a shame. It is a lovely magazine with an Internet version that crackles with color and impresses with clever hidden “easter eggs” inside each online issue. … in Windows you can actually download a full, bursting version of the magazine to your laptop so as to carry and read when wireless and on the road.
This month’s issue features jaw-dropping images from Amsterdam, Thailand, Los Roques (“An Eden in the Caribbean”), Slovenia and more. I’d link to the specific stories, but the whole thing is in Flash (one of the format’s drawbacks) and there’s no bookmarking function. But look at it this way: now you’ll have to browse the magazine yourself and to savor all the wonderful visual surprises inside.
Luscious Latitudes Magazine – Gadling
another internet photo mystery solved
After being, I think, the first blog to announce (twice) the “Stremnaya Road”, Bolivia actually the Guoliang Tunnel in China mystery solved , I am on to a new investigation.
This time declaring this Tibetan photo was not taken in Tibet:
… check my hiking blog to see where tourists are allowed to scramble this cliff.
hiking Paria canyon, Arizona
I just posted a photo journal on my hiking blog: Paria – the best canyon walk in the world.
It links to my photos of the trip as well as a detailed description on how to organize 4 days wading in a river slot canyon. Certainly this is one of my favourite hikes anywhere.
I also recommend the famous day hike nearby, called The Wave. (I had trouble on that one.)
» this is the last travelogue post on this trip.
Rick McCharles 