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How to Get Your Photos Explored on Flickr

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Lisa Bettany.

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Explore is Flickr’s Daily Artist Showcase. Every day Flickr admins choose 500 of the most interesting images determined by “interestingness”.
Being chosen as one of these elite few can mean a huge increase in your photo’s views and the number of comments and favourites you receive. Land on the front page of Explore, Flickr’s home page, [...]

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BC’s Top 5 Backcountry Lodges

Posted on 01. May, 2009 by BCAA.

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Until recently, overnighting at one of the 30 catered-and-staffed backcountry lodges scattered throughout the mountainous regions of B.C. meant doing without all but the most basic amenities. Today, however, a growing number of the province’s remote retreats are redefining backcountry lodging with words like showers, indoor toilets, private rooms, gourmet dining – even wireless Internet. [...]

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Los Angeles in 24 hours

Posted on 01. May, 2009 by BCAA.

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The go-to city guide – when you’ve barely got a weekend
No question, at this last, sprawling stop on the road west in search of the American dream, driving is a must. Which means, in a city where the locals size each other up by their cars (and these days, a Prius wins as many admiring [...]

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When the Gods Were Blind

Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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Wandering amidst Easter Islands’ stone heads, one glimpses how the world ends
To calculate the distance between hope and despair, one could sit on the edge of a 250-metre oceanside cliff on the South Pacific’s fabled Easter Island and consider the fate of those who once lived in the world’s most remote, inhabited place. At first [...]