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Archive for Category: "Photography & Photo Galleries"

Travel Photography Contest: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Travel Photography Contest: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

It’s the last week to enter our photo contest. This week, when we say show us how you travel, we mean planes, trains and automobiles. This week’s challenge is all about the mechanics of travel. Show us what method you use to go from point A to point B. We want to see the cool [...]

Slideshow: The Best Travel Foods from around the World

Slideshow: The Best Travel Foods from around the World

Tomorrow is the last day to enter week three of the Show Us How You Travel photography contest. This week’s theme was travel food. We asked you to show us, your favorite travel food experiences. We’ve got entries from around the world. Everything from fast-food stops,  street foods, once-in-a-lifetime meals and even delicious…airplane food. Don’t [...]

Travel Food Contest: Show Us How You Travel & Eat

Travel Food Contest: Show Us How You Travel & Eat

We’re down to week four of our photo contest and this week we want to see how you eat when you travel! Go through your photos to share your most memorable meals overseas and on the road. This week’s challenge is all about food. From funky fast-food stops to new street foods to those once-in-a-lifetime [...]

Travel Photography Contest: Week 2 Winner

Travel Photography Contest: Week 2 Winner

We had even tighter competition for the second week of our annual Travel Photography Contest.  We asked you to go off the beaten path in our week two challenge and show us what adventures lay at the end of the road. From Tanzania to Antarctica to mile one in Key West and surprise storm in [...]

Wild and Wacky New Year’s Eve Celebrations

Wild and Wacky New Year’s Eve Celebrations

What do a drag queen named Sushi and a marshmallow Peep have in common? They’re the stars of New Year’s festivities this year. Forget about navigating the crowds of Times Square–there are wild and wacky New Year’s celebrations all across the country. Find out more in the slideshow below. We all know of Bethlehem in [...]

Travel Tip: Camera Apps

Travel Tip: Camera Apps

More and more travelers are starting to leave their cameras at home and instead are relying on their smartphones to capture those special moments. So why not check out some of the better smartphone camera apps out there? Most people heard of Instagram when Facebook spent $1 billion acquiring it. Not to worry though. The [...]

Travel Tip: New Photography Apps

Travel Tip: New Photography Apps

These days, it seems like there really is an app for everything. But here’s one idea that really makes sense for travelers: an app that shows you how to take a photograph. Sure, there are plenty of photography books out there. The cool thing about a mobile application, however, is that they’re both portable and [...]

Show Us How You Travel Photo Contest Winners!

Show Us How You Travel Photo Contest Winners!

Congratulations to all of our contest weekly winners Sharon Miceli, Stephanie Mueller, Michelle Lipp and Anne Ake as well as the runners-ups Traci L. Suppa, Tiffany Martinbrough,  Doug Davey and Susan Ballou. We asked you to help us select the grand-prize winner. The votes are in and it’s Sharon Miceli, who is taking home the [...]