"Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful."
The header -- the long rectangular image usually found at the top of a page or article -- is perhaps the most unsung image category on the internet.
The image has to be "highly horizontal", so as not to take up to much of the article's space, but it also must grab the viewer's attention and get them to stay on the page long enough to begin reading.
I have multiple websites which I manage, ranging from the Thumbnail Traveler and Ask The Passenger blogs and Facebook pages, to my Barbergallery.net page and my own personal Facebook page. Add in my Twitter feed and the articles which appear on other people's pages and that adds up to a lot of headers over the years.
In looking through them, it's a reminder of how much we have traveled over the last five years. Some places are under-represented. (I'm surprised I haven't used more of our Australia images, for instance.) Each of them is representative of a topic or mood I was trying to establish, and each is something which I feel is somehow representative and illustrative of my work.
So, I thought I would feature them in their very own blog entry.
Enjoy.
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| Duvall Street, Key West |
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| Mount St Helens, Washington |
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| A luncheonette counter at Melbourne International Airport |
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| The astounding Pacific Coast Highway as it curves through the cliffs along California's Central Coast |
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| Lobby of the Pantages Theater in Hollywood |
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| Cruise ships in Venice, Italy |
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| The Monument Valley, Utah and Arizona |
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| Looking south along highway 163 in the Monument Valley |
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| The beach at Tulum, Mexico |
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| Looking down on my home town of Long Beach, California |
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| The Las Vegas Strip from Palms Place |
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| A fire burning on the prairie outside Pocatello, Idaho |
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| The Boneyard at the Neon Museum, Las Vegas |
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| The Pigalle Metro Station, Paris |
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| The Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia |
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| The Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia |
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| Polar Bear, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada |
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| Sunrise in the Swan Valley, Western Australia |
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| Riding through the Red Rock State Park, Nevada |
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| Gettysburg |
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| Boot Hill, El Paso, Texas |
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| The sunset over Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia |
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| Tuscany vineyards |
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| The beach at Positano, Italy |
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| The Houses of Parliament taken from the London Eye, London |
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| Courtyard at the Vatican Museum |
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| Red rocks at sunset, just outside Sedona, Arizona |
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| Vineyard in the Loire Valley (with cat) |
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| Marina at Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, Washington |
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| Pre-dawn along Lincoln Avenue in Calistoga, California |
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| Sunrise over the oil islands off of Long Beach, California |
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| The giant volcano Vesuvius towers over Naples, Italy |
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| My car amidst the volcanic cinder cones of the Mojave Desert in California |
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| The "Devil's Playground" in the Mojave |
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| Jet engine at sunset |
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| Boarding a Delta CRJ at sunset |
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| The El Junque rain forest, Puerto Rico |
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| Rapid City airport, pre-dawn |
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| Heading off on a Na Pali Coast expedition, Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Hawaii |
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| The Inside Passage, Favorite Channel, Alaska |
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| A field alongside highway 24, North Carolina |
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| Otherworldly clouds above the Midwest |
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| Monument Valley in the rearview mirror |
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| An alleyway in Rovinj, Croatia |
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| Stonehenge |
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Evening lights of St Paul Cathedral and surroundings reflecting in the Thames River
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| Times Square |
