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A Famous Nariz del Diablo Vendor — and the Power of Flickr

Back in early 2003, when I was living in Ecuador, I rode atop the famous Nariz del Diablo (Devil’s Nose) train. And one of my favorite pics from the journey was this image of me and a vendor who climbed atop the train and was selling his wares during one of the stops:

(for a bigger version, click here. The photo would’ve been better without the annoying German guy sticking his head up behind us. But anyway.)

I subscribe to an RSS feed (What is RSS? you say) for Flickr photos tagged “Ecuador,” and today this one was delivered to me. It’s a photo of the same vendor — and interestingly, though the pic was just uploaded, it appears to have been taken some three years before I met the guy, before he traded in his traditional bowler’s cap for his (probably pirated) Yankess woolie:

Update: Sorry, this photo is no longer available on Flickr, it seems.

One of Flickr’s most useful features is that it allows users to associate their images with “tags,” thus liberating them from individual albums. And discovering such photos is simple with RSS. Pretty cool stuff, if you ask me.

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Cambodian Gubment Sez: Stop Sending Nudie Pics Via Mobile Phones!

AFP:

“PHNOM PENH – A teenage craze for sending doctored naked images of female celebrities to each other by mobile phones sparked a demand by a Cambodian minister for government action against pornography.

Cambodia, phonecam

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Run Free, Little Bouncy Balls, Run Free!

Check out this fabulous photo.

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Flickr

Some of you might’ve noticed that I’ve slowly been outsourcing all of my photos to flickr, the excellent Web-based photo management service. I’d experimented with it before and I liked it, but I found that the free version’s alloted storage space made it impractical. But then Wendy H. kindly hooked me up with a free pro account, and that changed everything.

In the same way that iTunes liberated my music from CDs, so too has flickr made my old photos — many of which had been lost deep in the bowels of newley.com — accessible once again.

I give you, therefore, virtually all of my digital pics; I’m still adding new images in bits and pieces, so stay tuned. Just last night I uploaded the pics from my first and second Thailand trips (back in ’01 and ’02, respectively), as well as my first ‘Nam journey (in ’02).

Images from our Company Picnic

Yesterday afternoon we all left the office early for our annual company picnic. Here’re some pics.

Trippy Clouds

Here’re some incredible photos of clouds in Nebraska.

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An Image of Vietnam’s “Deep North”

Erik at the travel blog Gadling has selected one of my Vietnam pics, below, as his Photo of the Day. It’s one of my favorite images from what was a fabulous trip that Jill and I took there last March; in Erik’s words, the image captures “the sun simmering in a saffron haze.”

Visions of Hell

“Vintage photos of old Shopping Malls of the ’60s & ’70s.”

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Photos from our Vietnam Trip

I’ve finally gotten around to posting the photos–all 68 of ’em–from the trip Jill and I took to Vietnam in March. Enjoy.