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Un-beautiful destinations?

How Instagram – and one particular feed – reshaped travel in the 2010s

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Mark Jones
Jan 21, 2020
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Here’s a picture I took of the pig sty in the field across from where I live. Lovely, isn’t it? I put it on Instagram. Then I wondered, should I be even more ambitious and try for Beautiful Destinations?

I’d have to do some work to be accepted. The winter morning sunlight was very lovely, but really not dramatic enough for BD. I’d need to make those col…

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