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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ January 21, 2010 10:20 pm

Here is a shot I took of the Leaning Tower in Pisa Italy last May. Pick your monitor size and enjoy this desktop image for the next month. Learn more about the tower at Wikipedia. And tell us what you think below!
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ January 12, 2010 7:30 pm

After a nice short nap and a warm shower, I headed down to the lobby for our first meeting. My room was on the fourth floor of the hotel and had this view, which was looking away from Rome.
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ January 3, 2010 12:49 am

It’s hard to believe that this commercial aired in the UK a year ago. It’s celebrating Virgin Atlantic’s 25 years of flying. I’m a big fan of Virgin airways (praying that Virgin America makes a hub in Orlando). I’ve flown them over to the UK and via my part time job, met several of the cabin crew. Great crew and great flights. If only every airline brought this kind of attitude, flying would be fun again. Otherwise, enjoy the throwback to last year.

Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ December 30, 2009 3:52 pm

The really cool thing about watching other people’s videos on the web is that the better they are, the more you want to try out the effect. I’ve toyed around with Tilt-Shift photography and am currently playing around with time-lapse video. There are a couple of different ways to do time-lapse.
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ December 26, 2009 8:11 pm

Taken December, 2009, this photo shows some of the holiday decorations at the Norway Pavilion in Epcot at the Walt Disney World resort.

Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ December 13, 2009 10:53 pm

What’s better: the perfect vacation or one littered with unexpected events? I’d argue the second because it makes your stories so much better. The perfect vacation is, well, boring. Sure, the sites you saw are interesting, but with no hardship, there’s no conflict, no growth as an individual. No excitement.
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Filed under: Travel Photos — Mark Wolinski @ November 25, 2009 1:06 am

Taken at the Louvre in Paris in September 2008, I like taking photos not necessarily of the subject themselves, but of reactions to it. Here we see a collection of tourists studying, viewing and photographing the Venus de Milo statue.
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ November 18, 2009 4:58 pm

I’ve never had what I would consider a bad flight across the Atlantic until this trip. Perhaps “bad” is the wrong word. It wasn’t a “bad” flight, per se, just…well…

I was able to book round trip flights on Air France for less than $700 round trip total, which was a very good deal at the time…so good, I rushed to get my tour booked while I was finishing up the online booking. Talking with the agent on the phone, “we have space available; do you want me to put a hold on it for you?” To which I’m like, give me just a second to make sure I can get the flight confirmed. Everything went through and onto the credit cards.
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ November 16, 2009 11:01 pm

While at Epcot with a buddy of mine (and fellow blogger of Discover Epcot), I talked him into filming a fun little video in Germany. Click read more to see the video.
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Filed under: Articles — Mark Wolinski @ October 20, 2009 8:50 pm

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