The world is a big ‘ol place, we all know that, but if you’re looking to plan your holiday with photography in mind the choices are baffling. From underground to high up in the atmosphere, natural or man made, ancient or new, there is a stunning selection of photographic opportunities around the world. To begin with you’ll probably want to narrow your choices down by what kind of photography you like most, or the type of places you love, then look at your budget and go from there.

Obviously, a comprehensive guide to world photography spots would be ridiculous, so here’s my little guide to some of the most stunning photo opportunities around the world. Also, I apologise in advance if i’ve missed your favourite spot, I had a lot of trouble getting it down to this few!

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It usually happens that when I get a day off from work we get nothing but rain, but today was different, it has been lovely and sunny, the perfect day off!

So I made the most of it and headed up to Llandudno for some time in the sunshine, stopping off in BHS (British Home Store) for a cappuccino before heading into the town to join with the rest of what seemed to be the retired community pottering around the streets.

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Those seeing my tweets from yesterday will see I tweeted a picture while I was out on my shopping trip, so I thought we could all do with a bit of a break from the normality here on Blazing Minds and have a bit of fun.

So I’ve decided to run a little Caption This post competition, best caption gets a years supply of used tea bags only joking……

Anyway here’s the picture and have fun

Flowers by a wall

Originally uploaded by Blazing Minds

Just a little image for you all to bring a bit of sunshine into your lives, taken today in the lovely sunny weather here in North Wales…

OK it’s been a while since I actually posted a photo a day, but I have been busy and I have been uploading them to flickr But today I had to pop into BMW in Llandudno to have part of my steering wheel replaced, it was the part where the Mini badge is, it has a faux leather texture on it, which had started peeling off, this was a fault in the part, so I got a new one fitted under my Mini warranty.

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I love this shot, I just couldn’t resist the lovely yellow of the Daffodil in contrast to the green of the leaves, so I grabbed my camera, set up a macro shot and took it, so let me know what you think

Check out more photos in my Photo A Day project on Flickr.

Hey everyone, here is an update on the last few photo a day photos that I have posted on Flickr, due to lack of time they weren’t posted here on the blog, sorry everyone, so without any more gabbing, let’s get on with the pictures

Dragon Cloud – Photo A Day #52

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