Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmic_kid/2177514550/
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Humpback Whale Calf (na kohola) Endangered Maui Hawaii
To Hawaiians, the whale is a representation of the Hawaiian god, Kanaloa - the god of animals in the ocean. A large percentage of the North Pacific Humpback whales migrate to the main Hawaiian islands during the winter months, November through May, each year. The round-trip distance they travel during this annual migration is approximately 6,000 miles, one of the longest migration distances of any animal species. During their stay in Hawaii, they do not feed, but rely upon stored energy. Near the islands, the whales devote most of their time to mating and giving birth to their calves. This mother and her calf were in my "backyard" for over 2 hours. The bond that the mother displayed toward it's calf will live in my memory forever.In the first photo below note the size of the mother compared to it's calf.
Maui Dreams - Surfboard Fence_Maui Hawaii
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmcneal/3488254261/
Friday, April 10, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
CHINA - Shanghai - The End of the World on Pearl tower
CHINA - Shanghai - The End of the World on Pearl tower
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/92706698@N00/537350642/
The Great Wall of China
Great Wall near Badaling (八达岭), Northwest of Beijing
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/22079885@N02/2960647583/
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Cherry Blossom Way
Cherry Blossom Way.
Hobbiton aka The Picturesque Town of Matamata New Zealand. Imagine Hobbits taking second lunch here while the children frolic shaking petals from the trees.
The film sets of LOTR are 5 mins from here..the film stunned the world with the beauty of New Zealand
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tirau_dan/54556965/
green, grey and blue
Magma from the mantle intruded the deep crust and cooled slowly. Pyroxene and olivine started to crystallize from the magma. Since these where heavier than the surrounding magma, they sank to the bottom of the magma chamber where they became layered. Later, the remaining melt intruded higher levels of the continental crust, where it cooled and crystallised as tønsbergite, larvikite or lardalite. Some million years later the rock was carved and polished by glaciers during the ice age.
www.geoportalen.no/nasjonalbergart/artikler/nationaltreas...
www.nhm.uio.no/geomus/nettutstillinger/Osloriften/larviki...
Featured on the front cover and December month of the 2009 calendar from the New Scientist Magazine (Australia and New Zealand).
Running in their Yukata. Summer Japan
Running in their Yukata. Summer Japan.
www.mizunami-jc.com/hanabi/ Hanabi (fireworks) festival in Mizunami, Japan.
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/japan-life/1083189678/
Postal from Japan
The village of Ogimachi, in Shirakawa-go, has the biggest group of gassho-zukuri houses in Japan. These are traditional mountain houses specific of the central Hida region. All are part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/2773577987/
Friday, February 27, 2009
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market,THAILAND
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamie_hutt/2285409916/
Pasar Khatijah @ Kelantan MALAYSIA
Pasar Khatijah @ Kelantan MALAYSIA
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylifestory/1203573345/
Aligator Farm - Medan - Sumatra - Indonesia
Aligator Farm - Medan - Sumatra - Indonesia
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoroubos/2149209887/
Monday, February 23, 2009
Friendship in the quiet streets of Pondichery India
School's over, in the quiet streets of former french quarter, Pondichery India
© Eric Lafforgue
Contact
www.ericlafforgue.com
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/2560882068/
Foggy morning in the indian forest - Road from Dharamkot to McLeod Ganj - India
Foggy morning in the indian forest - Road from Dharamkot to McLeod Ganj - India
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/rehvonwald/1393441178/
Novotel Resort Hotel, Bali, Indonesia
Indonesia,Bali,峇里島, Novotel Resort Hotel, Lunch Buffer Bar
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsze/741115764/
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Indonesia - Bali Island - Tanah Lot
Tanah Lot black sand volcanic beach, looking back towards the le Meridien hotel complex. A requirement of the building of this hotel was that it should not interfer with the landscape from the Tanah Lot temple and this sacred beach.
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/c-j-b/256344702/
Strawberry @ Cameron Highland MALAYSIA
Taken in one of the Strawberry Farm in Cameron Highland on 2nd Aug 2008
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kkdei/2724774959/
Boh Tea Estate, Cameron Highlands MALAYSIA
Boh Tea Estate, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwsteinbach/47386225/
Langkawi MALAYSIA
Langkawi, Malaysia, not far from the 4 Seasons hotel...
© Eric Lafforgue
Contact
www.ericlafforgue.com
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/358403839/
Light at the End of the Pier - Hanalei, Kauai
The Hanalei Pier points directly towards the mountains often referred to as Bali Hai. It refers to a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II from the musical South Pacific. This area resembles the island of Tioman, which is the original Bali Hai.
With the sun rising behind the camera, openings in the clouds allowed the light to filter into the clouds and illuminate the mountains on the opposite side of Hanalei Bay. Within 10 minutes the rain came in and this low warm light was gone for the day, replaced later by the bright light of mid-day. I used a long exposure to show the motion in the clouds. Also, the long exposure time smoothed out the water and simplified the image. That enhanced the effect of light hitting the posts of the pier.
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick-smith-photography/3103966854/
Navagio (shipwreck) beach
This is the most famous beach in Greece. It lies on the western shore of Zakynthos among a unique landscape of steep hills coming down to the sea. On the beach lies a shipwreck which gives the beach its famous name. In 1980 (1981?) this ship was trying to escape Navy ships tailing it as it was alleged to smuggle cigarettes. The ship came across bad weather and was abandoned only to be washed ashore and give this beach its characteristic name.
source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkilim/2753126743/sizes/l/
How to Get Low Airfares
There is no doubt that the arrival of the so called "low cost airlines" have changed the face of short haul air travel & although it pains me to say it, as they have taken away a lot of my revenue, for the better in my opinion.
I have been running my own travel business for over 12 years now, mainly dealing in discounted airfares. It used to be the case that if you wanted low cost airfares that you had to stay a minimum amount of time & especially a Saturday night. This was impossible for people who only wanted to travel for short periods, wanted to travel during the week or simply wanted one way travel. Now you can get low airfares staying as long or as little as you want, travel when you want & even for one way travel, this was unheard of only a few short years ago.
The low cost airlines & their low airfares have had a huge impact on air travel & peoples flying & holiday habits with more & more people now taking lots of short breaks instead of the traditional 2 weeks in the sun during the summer. As a result of this impact the long established Airlines are following suit in offering low airfares for travel for any durations & one ways.
We have all probably heard of or seen the ridiculously low airfares of ?1 (or less ! ) plus tax to fly to many destinations across europe, but how do you get these low airfares ? Well I will tell you (although I'm not sure why ? )
First & foremost you must plan well in advance, 6-9 months or even longer if possible. The low cost airlines will generally have very low airfares for their lead in prices to grab your attention & get the headlines. However they will only have a handfull of seats available at the low airfares, once these seats are sold you will have to pay more. Maybe the next fare level will only be ?10 more so still a low airfare but again once a small amount of seats have been sold at this price the fare will rise again. This will keep happening until the fares are most definately not low airfares so it pays to book in advance. Lets face it at ?1 or thereabouts plus tax if your plans change & you can't travel you are not loosing much are you ?
Next, get yourself on the e mail list of the low cost airlines such as Easyjet, Ryanair, Jet2, Bmibaby etc. They will then e mail you when their flights are about to go on sale for up coming seasons. This should enable you to get first pick of the low airafres when you want to travel. Familiarise yourself with the low cost Airlines that fly from your local airport & get on their e mail lists. You will find this information on your local Airports website.
If you are not sure where you want to go then try websites such as skyscanner where you will find a facility to find out where the low cost Airlines fly to from your local Airport including the low airfares. You may find yourself travelling to places you would not have thought of simply because you cannot pass up the low airfares to that destination.
Try travelling during the week or be flexible in when you want to travel, play around with dates on your low airfare searches & you may be pleasantly surprised at how much you can save.
New destinations are often added by the low cost Airlines & to promote these destinations they are generally offered with low air airfares. again this is where you will benefit from being on the e mail lists of the low cost Airlines as you will be the first to find out when new desinations are being launched.
Follow the above advice & you will find yourself clocking up those air miles travelling to well known as well as not so well known destinations all over Europe & in taking advantage of the low airfares & often cheap prices across Europe having a few days away for the cost of a good night out in the UK.
I have been running my own travel business for over 12 years now, mainly dealing in discounted airfares. It used to be the case that if you wanted low cost airfares that you had to stay a minimum amount of time & especially a Saturday night. This was impossible for people who only wanted to travel for short periods, wanted to travel during the week or simply wanted one way travel. Now you can get low airfares staying as long or as little as you want, travel when you want & even for one way travel, this was unheard of only a few short years ago.
The low cost airlines & their low airfares have had a huge impact on air travel & peoples flying & holiday habits with more & more people now taking lots of short breaks instead of the traditional 2 weeks in the sun during the summer. As a result of this impact the long established Airlines are following suit in offering low airfares for travel for any durations & one ways.
We have all probably heard of or seen the ridiculously low airfares of ?1 (or less ! ) plus tax to fly to many destinations across europe, but how do you get these low airfares ? Well I will tell you (although I'm not sure why ? )
First & foremost you must plan well in advance, 6-9 months or even longer if possible. The low cost airlines will generally have very low airfares for their lead in prices to grab your attention & get the headlines. However they will only have a handfull of seats available at the low airfares, once these seats are sold you will have to pay more. Maybe the next fare level will only be ?10 more so still a low airfare but again once a small amount of seats have been sold at this price the fare will rise again. This will keep happening until the fares are most definately not low airfares so it pays to book in advance. Lets face it at ?1 or thereabouts plus tax if your plans change & you can't travel you are not loosing much are you ?
Next, get yourself on the e mail list of the low cost airlines such as Easyjet, Ryanair, Jet2, Bmibaby etc. They will then e mail you when their flights are about to go on sale for up coming seasons. This should enable you to get first pick of the low airafres when you want to travel. Familiarise yourself with the low cost Airlines that fly from your local airport & get on their e mail lists. You will find this information on your local Airports website.
If you are not sure where you want to go then try websites such as skyscanner where you will find a facility to find out where the low cost Airlines fly to from your local Airport including the low airfares. You may find yourself travelling to places you would not have thought of simply because you cannot pass up the low airfares to that destination.
Try travelling during the week or be flexible in when you want to travel, play around with dates on your low airfare searches & you may be pleasantly surprised at how much you can save.
New destinations are often added by the low cost Airlines & to promote these destinations they are generally offered with low air airfares. again this is where you will benefit from being on the e mail lists of the low cost Airlines as you will be the first to find out when new desinations are being launched.
Follow the above advice & you will find yourself clocking up those air miles travelling to well known as well as not so well known destinations all over Europe & in taking advantage of the low airfares & often cheap prices across Europe having a few days away for the cost of a good night out in the UK.
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