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Old Sep 24, 2007, 8:55 am
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Some great shots here.

My humble offering, from the Hilton Suites in Chicago:

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Old Sep 26, 2007, 3:44 pm
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Hampton Channel Islands Inn - Oxnard, CA

Out the window at the yacht harbor.

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Old Sep 29, 2007, 3:53 am
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Sunrise in New York city, January 2007
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Old Sep 30, 2007, 12:15 pm
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I've been pretty busy (traveling) lately and just catching up to processing some of my latest photos. Here's one of the cityview from the Ramada hotel in Cheongju:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ftkuroneko/1463601541/
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Old Oct 10, 2007, 3:56 pm
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Here are two views both taken from my room on the 9th floor of the Sonesta on Maho beach in St Marteen.





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Old Oct 14, 2007, 11:18 am
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Wow, I had no clue this forum existed! I need to venture outside of Delta and OMNI on occasion!

Hotel New Hankyu, Tokyo


Another beautiful sunny day! Sheraton Lima, Peru
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Old Oct 15, 2007, 11:16 pm
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Early morning at the Novotel Citygate Hotel, Hong Kong - September 2007. Foggy and 29C at 6 AM.


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Old Oct 17, 2007, 2:36 pm
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Here are a few of mine:

1. View from rooftop pool at Sofitel Florianopolis, Brazil

2. Cruise Ships in San Juan Harbor taken from a suite at the Sheraton Old San Juan (Shot 1; Shot 2; Shot 3).

3. View of Boston Skyline at Night from Westin Boston Waterfront

4. Balcony View from Suite at Le Meridien Limassol, Cyprus

5. View of the Acropolis from Hilton Athens Executive Lounge Balcony

6. Views of Niagara Falls & Niagara, New York from Sheraton Fallsview, Ontario (Day; Night 1; Night 2)

7. Landing Float-Plane, Taken from Fairmont Waterfront, Vancouver

8. Skyline and Bay Bridge View from Le Meridien San Francisco

9. Sunset from Balcony of Suite at El Cid Castilla Beach Resort - Mazatlan, Mexico

10. My Favorite: Sunset From Junior Suite at Park Tower Buenos Aires

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Old Oct 19, 2007, 4:57 pm
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A shot across Tribeca, New York, towards the financial district. Taken from the Holiday Inn Downtown Manhattan/Soho. Pity about the hotel's dirty windows!

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Old Oct 21, 2007, 7:48 am
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Europe and Africa across the Strait en route Paris-Casablanca

This is one of my sentimental favourites, if perhaps not my best.



Many thanks to sbm12 for a very instructive post on how to embed a picasaweb album image.


(BTW, I apologize for this off-topic post, I thought I was posting in the "Why I love flying, in an image..." thread)

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Old Oct 21, 2007, 8:12 am
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Originally Posted by AC110
Europe and Africa across the strait en route Paris-Casablanca

This is one of my sentimental favourites, if not my best.

If anyone can tell me how to actually embed the photo in the post I'd appreciate it. I suspect that the forum code doesn't like the picasaweb url format.
In looking at my Picassa Web album I have the option when looking at an individual photo to "link to this photo" in the right side toolbar. I end up with a link that looks like this when I click on that option:
Code:
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/kraft.michaels/Reunion2006/photo#5063697458581166914">
<img src="http://lh3.google.com/kraft.michaels/RkXeAozHW0I/AAAAAAAAACU/-B3YJfDAa88/s400/IMG_1074.JPG" />
</a>
There are a couple important pieces in there that are useful. First, you don't actually want the "A HREF=" tag, so that should be deleted, as should the /a tag that closes it (the stuff in red), leaving you with this:
Code:
<img src="http://lh3.google.com/kraft.michaels/RkXeAozHW0I/AAAAAAAAACU/-B3YJfDAa88/s400/IMG_1074.JPG" />
The other important bit is the s400 that I bolded & made green above. That part of the URL controls the size that the image is rendered in. The acceptable values are s144, s288, s400, s640, s720 and s800.

Using the above process I end up with the following URL for your picture of crossing the Straits of Gibraltar:
Code:
http://lh6.google.com/rob.scaife/RxocR7lAotI/AAAAAAAACMs/LczZn9DOpfw/s400/IMG_2008.jpg
Putting that in the image tags in this forum renders this:


The other way to get the correct URL for the image would be to right-click on it and choose properties. In the "Address (URL)" field you'll have something that looks like this:
Code:
http://lh6.google.com/rob.scaife/RxocR7lAotI/AAAAAAAACMs/LczZn9DOpfw/IMG_2008.jpg?imgmax=720
That is basically the same URL, but with the size information at the end rather than at the beginning. If you choose that format you still have to use a "valid" value for the image size, which is the same set of numbers that I listed above (and there may be others but those are the ones I know work).

I hope this helps!

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Old Oct 21, 2007, 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by sbm12
In looking at my Picassa Web album ...

<snip>

I hope this helps!

S.
Many thanks! I looked at the source, but thought that the url looked like something temporary that might change with each page view, but since they're giving it as the permanent link clearly it's not.

And I never would have guessed the picture sizing parameter.

Cheers,

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Old Oct 22, 2007, 1:35 pm
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not my photo, but a great photo of SF from someone's hotel balcony at night
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Old Oct 22, 2007, 2:42 pm
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Originally Posted by AC110

And here I thought you had a really interesting hotel room



Best Western, Springdale, Utah....



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Old Oct 27, 2007, 7:12 am
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West Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida

Hmmm. Can't edit the title, which should have been: Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida

I woke up to this this morning:


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