Favourite Travel photo... Everyone has one or two!

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Does AFF's forum software have an option to create a special Wallpaper gallery section so we could put all the best photos onto a page and download them in the right size for desktop wallpaper or an iPhone or iPad?
 
My Favourite is both my daughters sitting on the edge of a pond/fountain thing in Karlsruhe looking into the botanic gardens/Zoo. Keep that on my desktop. Not going to post it, sorry. but here is a link to the fountain from Google:

Karlsruhe, Germany - Google Maps

Here is another favourite. Sunrise from above the clouds, ADL-SYD - Ok sorry it's not going to work. Why can't I insert photos from the iphone app anymore

BTW do I need to mention my avatar - Afghanistan from QF5, rather unusual as the flight was delayed by 6 hours, hence it was daytime when we flew over.
 
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Great topic. There are so many to choose from. For me it’s more about the memory than the quality of the photograph (possibly because I’m not such a great photographer). Someone’s already posted Iguazu Falls so I’ve gone with the only one that ever made me tear up when I first laid eyes on it...Machu Picchu.

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Wow. Just "WOW"! That is definitely somewhere I want to go one day. Looks like there were not many tourists there on the day you visited, Homer?
 
Wow. Just "WOW"! That is definitely somewhere I want to go one day. Looks like there were not many tourists there on the day you visited, Homer?

Yeah I guess it was pretty quiet. We took a private tour which left our hotel quite early in the morning - 7:30am from memory. Those that did the walk to the “Sun Gate” were only just arriving when we got there. It got busier a little later. We left around midday as my wife’s brother was getting married to a Peruvian girl back in Aguas Calientes.
 
The little seaside French village of Cabourg with it's buitiful houses and village green.
 

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Here's a couple of my favourites...

Neuschwanstein
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Lago Pehoe, Torres del Paine National Park
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Great thread! Loving the photos - gives that sense of travelling without the actual travelling :lol:

Here are a couple of mine. Might post some more later.


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Lake Tekapo, South Island, NZ - May 2005


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Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy - January 2011
 
Great photos....this thread is making me wanna travel ASAP....more than the usual threads on here :D
 
Wow! We have some very talented photographers on this forum... and I too am getting very itchy for a trip now!

I am a terrible photographer, and I usually take my snaps with a $200 camera so forgive the quality of my shots (and lack of artistry) - but to me it is more the feelings/memories that the picture invokes that makes me like them, than the actual artistic merit of the shot... That is why I have not included picturesque Thailand, or the Grand Canyon or Chichen Itza, or my mother's homeland Russia. These five pics have certain significance for me...


2834.jpgPlaza de Espana, Seville. I lived in Spain for many years, and it is my 'home away from home'. To me Andalusia is the most Spanish part of Spain :)
102_1914.jpg The Olgas. This is the only shot I have ever taken within my own country that I like. This shows the country I live in and the beauty that we have, but often don't think about. It is also the same name as my mother, and well I think that is just tops! ;)
394.jpg Piazza de Michelangelo, Florence. I love Florence for the coffee, the shopping, the views. The reason I love this photo though (as blurry as it is) is that my mother was standing next to me. My mother never travels interstate, let alone overseas, so 2 years ago I took her to Italy for a break. That was an amazing experience for me, and one I will never forget.
Camera 2009 157.jpg Montserrat Monastery (Mountains outside of Barcelona) - again a Spanish one - but the pure feel of being a million miles from anywhere, standing at the monastery and looking out to your left where you see snow-peaked mountains - and your right where you literally see Barcelona on the sea is surreal. Add to that the sound of the Monks chanting (in Catalan no less) makes this place a true spiritual haven - even for those not looking for a mystical experience. Go there. Go now. Say I sent you! :rolleyes:
47 Haitian Orphan.jpg HIV+ Orphan in Haiti. This little orphan had lost his parents only a couple of weeks before this shot. He took a shining to me, and though I normally abhor people in general, and kids especially - he touched my heart and we walked together throughout the day holding hands, or me carrying him when he was tired. This photo (taken two years ago) still makes me emotional (not an easy achievement!) and reminds me of how lucky I am to be living here in Australia and to have the life and family/friends that I do. I often wonder where he is and what he is doing...

That's it for me...

Apologies for self-indulgence!

Misha
 
Wow! I've travelled to Europe heaps of times for business (including 3 days in Valencia), but my wife has never been.

We're planning to visit Europe in the next two years and the photo's of Spain have certainly given me much more incentive to visit there... :D
 
On a similar vein to Mish'a photo of the orphan in Haiti....

A small section of the border fence (between Mexico and the USA) in Tijuana, near the international airport. Each cross represents someone who has died in the desert trying to cross the border from Mexico to the US to achieve a better future for themselves or their family....

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Some great photos. I have a soft spot scenery and city skyline pics. Love the rio pics and iguazu falls, as I can relate to being there myself.

My iphone pics must do for now:

Wadi Rum desert, Jordan in the middle of winter at sunset.
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Victoria, Canada. Again at sunset
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Great thread! Loving the photos - gives that sense of travelling without the actual travelling :lol:

Here are a couple of mine. Might post some more later.


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Lake Tekapo, South Island, NZ - May 2005


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Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy - January 2011

Beautiful photo's! What camera and lens were you using for these?
 
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this is Lolamanu Beach, Samoa in Aug 2008.
14 months before the Tsunami.
it was the best beach i've ever been too, so beautiful i've been there twice.
Talofa Samoa!
 
Here's a couple of mine...probably post some more later..

Lake Louise in May

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Grand Canyon
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