The free KLM Passport for iPhone app lets you create a mini-movie of your trips taken by air. This promotional video provides an overview of the app, although it isn’t a step-by-step tutorial: Here’s the app’s description on iTunes: “The KLM Passport app turns your journeys into inspiring movies you can share with friends [...]
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When shooting photos on a crowded city street with people striding quickly up and down the sidewalks, you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time with your camera at the ready so that you can capture a memorable piece of the fleeting urban scene before it passes you by. In keeping [...]
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As Valentine’s Day approaches, I invite you to share your tale of love lost or found on a journey away from home, whether made recently or long, long ago. You’ll read about my great love lost as I crisscrossed the U.S. over fifty years ago, and about my great love found from the mountains to [...]
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Saturday night I attended the “Ooh, La La, Lucie!” birthday party for a French-Canadian friend, formerly of Montreal, who flew back to California from Paris last Wednesday after spending three weeks in France. Lucie, of course, speaks French fluently. And English. And Italian. But you say to me: “What about you, mon petit cheri? How [...]
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So what’s the ultimate shot any amateur photographer could take? One that was featured in a National Geographic publication, of course. An impossible goal? Not so. I achieved it with the photo that launched my career as a travel writer. Yes, you’ve seen that photo of Margerie Glacier before on the pages and photo albums [...]
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Priceline.com, which gained fame in the world of travel by letting you “Name Your Own Price” and bid on travel services, has sent William Shatner “over the edge” in this new video promoting it’s alternative “no-need-to-bid” conventional booking method. My only question: Will we now see Shatner as “The Negotiator” only in re-runs, just as [...]
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Next Tuesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will announce the nominees for the 2012 Oscars. I hate to say it, but you know those videos you shot during your travels in 2011? Well, they haven’t got a prayer of landing you one of these nifty little golden statuettes to place on the [...]
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“I’ll bet that’s been photoshopped.” You’ve probably said that to yourself when you’ve seen a photo that looks other-worldly or in which something seems out of place. That’s because Adobe’s top-selling photo editing program has not only become a verb, but one that is part of today’s mainstream lexicon. Sometimes the “photoshopping” of an image [...]
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Last April, I heard that the world’s last typewriter factory had been shuttered. A part of my past closed along with it.
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