Weekend giveaway: MOO!
In the northern hemisphere, summer is slowly but surely turning into fall. Children are off to school, the air is crisp and colder, and our faint tan is slowly fading away... What did you do this summer? And did you take some nice pictures?
For this weekend's giveaway, we want you to share your summer memories with us. Post a link in the comments to your best summer photo, a photo you took that simultaneously embodies what the season means to you and that you think would look good on your next batch of MOO postcards!
Our photo would probably be this one, from the Bearpit Karaoke on Mauerpark, where we spent many lovely summer afternoons:
Now show us yours! :)
This giveaway is generously sponsored by MOO, suppliers of lovely printed goods. Three winners will receive a voucher for 20 postcards, to either print their photos or choose from MOO's range of ready-made postcard sets.
Comments will be open until midnight UTC September 25th. Good luck!
PS - Postcrossers in the southern hemisphere, please share your Winter photos!

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a 'fata morgana' at the Belgian Coast...
(Larnaca, Cyprus, July 2011)
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Czech Republic 2011
Had a great holiday there!
it was summer festival and there was raining a lot, so my friend and me wanted to remember childhood and jumper into dirt and laugh about that a lot :D
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Jump!! @Yilan, Taiwan
We rode bike alone the river,and enjoy the riverside in this summer!
Amritsar, Golden Temple - this is one of my favorites photos from this trip.
I miss India :)
It was fantastic when I bought a cream spray. I was eating it for the whole day)))
I love the trip to Australia this summer vacation because Bondi beach is so beautiful,cool and great!
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A gull on the seaside's sky. Weather was great, we spent too much time on the beach ;d. Photo taken in Swinoujscie, Poland.
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the start of spring as we are only just going into summer now in Australia
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(i hope everybody can see the picture)
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I LOVE to waterski in the summer!!!
First day of summer holiday! Decorative cherry trees were blooming so nicely! ♥
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new try: http://flickr.com/gp/never_summer/G3qd5g
Lovely afternoon in Southend-on-See, England. Here, a bench at the end of one of the longest piers in the world! :)
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I spent two months in Taiwan this summer, it was the best time of my life...
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The festa season here in Malta. I'm still tourist enough to find it interesting and fun! :)
Summer? For me it means friends, comfortable shoes and many time spent on traveling and walking 8)
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Enjoy ;)
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or
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or
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and St. Petersbourg
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Summer is the best time to discover the world
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Just love!
Luciana
Crimea,Ukraine :)
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January - 2011
(Last Summer in Brazil)
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Summer is for me the season which is much to hot, and only bearable in the shadow of a nice tree. It's the time when everything is green and looks nice.
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Aug.8.2011.
Wonderful summer memories with my good friend Ellie in Lioucou.
A beautiful trip to the northern tip of Europe, with lots of nice, sunny days, and one very, very misty day (of course the day we visited the North Cape!). This picture tells that story. Dutch readers can read the whole trip on my blog (http://www.hjplantinga.nl/). Driving up the the cape was rather a challenge I will not soon forget.
Mallorca at its best :) sunny, warm and holidayish :)
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My son in Greese :)
I took this on my birthday in August. We had gone out for a walk and it started to pour with rain! Whilst we sheltered under the trees I took this photo- just as the sunshine was re-appearing. A typical British summer with unpredictable weather!
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I love to garden in the summer. Part of the process is taking pictures of the plants and birds. The digital camera has made me feel so artistic and I was actually just goofing around taking shoots in the gazing ball! Cool eh!!
This one would be mine. My idea of a perfect summer day: being out on the water, back to basic and being outside all day, completely forget about time, eat self caught fish, jump out of the boat for a swim, watching stars at night and finally fall asleep while feeling the boat gently wiggles...
This is absolutly my favorite summer picture. I made this one with my new Lomography Fisheye No. 2 camera. It's a picture of Neal's Yard, Covent Garden, London.
Heading to Sasquatch music festival in Gorge, Washington starts my summer every year.
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going around Gozo's island in Malta
my lovely memories from la defense
Beautiful river Una...
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Isla de margarita :) made this trip in february and cant wait to be back there
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pilgrimage for the celebration of Our Lady Of Tarac, National Park Kornati, Dalmatia :)
Lake Moraine in Banff National Park, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada
Spent an awesome weekend between Jasper and Banff. It is incredible beautiful and the water of the lake is changing its colour during the day. It was dark green when we where there.
The wonderful trip in UK in 2011 summer.
from a yearly trip taken to southern california.
oops
We love to go out to U pick farms and corn & sunflower mazes! Great summer tradition!
Summer means sun and the sun makes shadows (same pic as above, but maybe this will hyperlink the whole thing and not just half!)
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Still on the way to Sasquatch! music festival. Best way to start a summer :)
Flowers in Tarragona, Spain=)
I stayed in Japan for 2 years, we experienced the 3/11 earthquake, but the locals kept the festival spirit up high and light up the hot and humid summer night.
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The look in my face is the regular: Why the fuck did I agree to this again?!!? Which comes always couple times during the trip.
But I had fun, believe it or not. ^^
I went Geocaching and we did a very big tour in the underground! This picture is from our trip, where we discovered an old bunker under our town. It was so interessing, but sometimes also very creepy.
At the playground with my oldest son, Ethan.
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Hiking in the Alpine (Saas Fee in Switzerland)
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Site-observation for school's new architectural project :) Blazing hot summer in Jatinangor, Bandung, Indonesia. Soon-to-be ITB-Jatinangor's student housing. In the background, there's Mt. Manglayang.
my bouquet of ukrainian field flowers - a piece of summer..
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And this place is especially beautiful for its roof curves. just check it out what does it look like.
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august trip to jupiter ( artland ) in scotland x
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Yeah, I was there among almost 2 million people:
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Summer and wine tasting are meant to be together.
So I'll go with this one:
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Every summer there is a contest called Sjezenrijden. There is a course with 3 or 4 rings hanging over it, a male & female (and sometimes kids aswell) sit in a chaise that is towed by a (draft) horse. Everyone has to wear traditional clothing, the chaise needs to be decorated with real flowers and the horse needs to be decorated aswell! The horse needs to trot around the course while the female tries to get all the rings with a lance! I love to watch it, take pictues and pet the horses, ofcourse :D
http://pics.livejournal.com/mylovelymadness/pic/000ard74 - the Gega river
http://pics.livejournal.com/mylovelymadness/pic/000as5gc -
relict pines in Pitsunda.
I just can't choose :)
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small piece of splendid day
Here is my snapshot. The moments of relax.
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Hope you can see it now.
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Island Santorin Ia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isa_11/6166663585/in/photostream/
Island Crete Elafonissi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isa_11/6167207264/in/photostream/
Santorin Cat in bookbox: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isa_11/6166659221/in/photostream/
Santorin Flowers: http://www.flickr.com/photos/isa_11/6166656585/in/photostream/
A praying mantis on a sunflower.
Here's me ziplining in Costa Rica! Crazy fun. :)
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This pic I took at the beach perfectly illustrates my view of the world -- any word you write in the sand will wash away with the tide, but only if you get close enough to the water. Likewise, any risk you take, any time you jump into something, any time you stand on the edge and decide to go over it, whatever happens will change everything... But in the end, it's all your life, and there's no such thing as "going back." Embrace what you have and keep making those changes! It's my favorite pic of summer specifically because I've gone through a lot of those types of changes this summer, and it's been my best summer in years!
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This one was taken in the garden of my parents.
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This one at a lake near my home.
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Or this one, which I took in Egypt this holidays.
I hope you like it.
I posted some more on my blog ( http://miamouztellstales.blogspot.com )
miamouz :)
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Visited South India
We love spending time in our hammock under the sun. Relaxing is what our summer is all about.
This summer, I've been on a canoecamp in Sweden. It was fantastic. Such a beautiful country and a great group, I made a lot of new friends. I love photography, so of course I took my camera with me. I'm happy the camera survived and now I have a lot of beautiful memories :)
Flowers in my garden! In the photo the royal lily, which flowered for the first time in 3 years, which pleased me very much.
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Colorado Mountains!
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Ducks in a pond, France. 2011: http://flic.kr/p/a5dm9W
Swiss Alps. 2011: http://flic.kr/p/apkLpi
summer in corfu, making your own fun in the hot and dusty sun, whether you've got a motor or not!
And here it is at night: https://picasaweb.google.com/118156562118153089972/PhotosThatTakeMyBreathAway#5655150634606589426
(I couldn't choose just one :D)
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Here is the link to the museum photos.
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I especially liked Reflecting Pond at the museum.
The pond photo can be seen here.
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I had a very good time there. :)
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Summer 2011 = wonderful days in Barcelona:)
We happened to find an interesting place in the department store - for our shadows! With the strong sunshine, we were sweating even under the air-conditioner. Summer is a lush season to show our childlike part! XD
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June 2011
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A totally different experience -- no electricity, no water to drink(we had to bring gallons of drinking water)but we had fun as we enjoyed the beach. :)
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surrounded by warm water of the sea. :D
Children at play. :)
This year I spent it with my family in Austria
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I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia this summer to visit a friend. We decided to do the ultimate touristy thing and go to Peggy's Cove. It's still the highlight of my summer. We were just care free and having fun, it was exactly how summer is supposed to be.
LOVE https://picasaweb.google.com/xsigitux/Mano1#5656285712881545362
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A nice catch =D
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I can't choose, can you?
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This is the annual Folklife Festival here in Seattle, WA. It makes the beginning of every summer for me and I LOVE going to it and listening to the bands, watching the people play, and looking at all the different art and designs people have in their stores. :)
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Summer holiday with a lot of snow in Austria:)
sweet Mamrot in Austria!!! :)
It was the last shot I did that hour - I was out of memory space. The last one, the best one.
Hope I'm still in time :)
Walking/camping in "Petite Suisse" in Luxembourg :) Sun, friends, alot of nature and cozy camping nights :D It was great! And being surrounded with such beauty really gives you a boost :)