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Once again it’s Theme Day in the CDP community and today’s theme is ‘wood.’

Meet Henri, who couldn’t walk without his wooden walking stick. Henri is the last remaining member of the oldest family in Gorbio, the medieval village just above Menton. Henri can trace his family back hundreds and hundreds of years.

Note: Lest you should think that Henri is in need of a square meal and a bed for the night, rest assured – he is one of the biggest landowners in the village.

To see how City Daily Photo Bloggers around the world have interpreted today’s theme please click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

She sits in the old cemetery of Menton, forever looking down over the Mediterranean.

Posted by Kelvin Ho, Nexus One Product Manager and Soujanya Bhumkar, CEO and Co-founder, Cooliris

Managing your media on a mobile phone can sometimes be cumbersome – many phones have cameras that make it easy to take photos and record videos on the go, but trying to find and share them afterwards can be a time-consuming process. The new Gallery app, which was developed in partnership with Cooliris for the Nexus One, makes it easier to browse, edit, and share photos and videos on the go.

For starters, when you take photos or videos with your phone, they’ll automatically be available in the Gallery under the “Camera” category, so you can quickly browse photos and videos you’ve taken or view them in automated slideshows. Since you often want to access photos you have stored in the cloud, the Gallery can also sync with multiple Google accounts so you can view and share all of your Picasa Web Albums photos from the Gallery.

Similar to syncing for contacts and email, thumbnails of synced photos are transferred wirelessly, so there’s no need to plug your phone into your computer. You can add and select the Google accounts associated with the Picasa photos you want to sync with the Gallery in the “Accounts & sync” tab under Settings. Click on an account and mark the checkbox next to “Sync Picasa Web Albums” to automatically pull your online photos into the Gallery.

It works both ways — you can upload one or multiple photos from the Gallery right to your Picasa Web Albums, Facebook accounts, or other 3rd party applications. Just click “Share”, choose Picasa or Facebook, add a caption, select your destination album (or create a new one) and click Upload.

With just a few clicks, you can also send photos or videos directly to friends or family via text message, email or bluetooth. For photos taken with your phone, you can perform simple edits like cropping or rotating, and can set any photo as a contact icon or wallpaper. To share or edit photos, simply click “Menu” from any photo to bring up the options.

The new Gallery app also makes finding photos really simple. In any album, you can switch between the standard view and grouped view using the toggle at the top right. When you’re in grouped view, photos and videos are automatically grouped into digital stacks by date and time, and even by location if geotagging is enabled.

Here’s a short video that shows features of the Nexus One camera and Gallery in action:

For now, the Gallery is native to the Nexus One, but it will be available in the future for other Android devices with Android 2.1 or later versions.

We are in the centre of Menton today in the main street that runs up from the sea and the casino. This is where we find the Jardin Biovès and looking down a tiny side street, we see, amongst the palms and orange trees the top of the Résidence du Louvre, which is mostly used for conferences these days.

Once a week in Menton there’s an antique/bric-a-brac market outside the main food market and on the Place aux Herbes.

Here’s one of the dealers taking advantage of a sofa until he hopefully sells it.

(This was taken in November with my old camera – the Lumix FZ18)

Posted by Kelvin Ho, Nexus One Product Manager and Soujanya Bhumkar, CEO and Co-founder, Cooliris

Managing your media on a mobile phone can sometimes be cumbersome – many phones have cameras that make it easy to take photos and record videos on the go, but trying to find and share them afterwards can be a time-consuming process. The new Gallery app, which was developed in partnership with Cooliris for the Nexus One, makes it easier to browse, edit, and share photos and videos on the go.

For starters, when you take photos or videos with your phone, they’ll automatically be available in the Gallery under the “Camera” category, so you can quickly browse photos and videos you’ve taken or view them in automated slideshows. Since you often want to access photos you have stored in the cloud, the Gallery can also sync with multiple Google accounts so you can view and share all of your Picasa Web Albums photos from the Gallery.

Similar to syncing for contacts and email, thumbnails of synced photos are transferred wirelessly, so there’s no need to plug your phone into your computer. You can add and select the Google accounts associated with the Picasa photos you want to sync with the Gallery in the “Accounts & sync” tab under Settings. Click on an account and mark the checkbox next to “Sync Picasa Web Albums” to automatically pull your online photos into the Gallery.

It works both ways — you can upload one or multiple photos from the Gallery right to your Picasa Web Albums, Facebook accounts, or other 3rd party applications. Just click “Share”, choose Picasa or Facebook, add a caption, select your destination album (or create a new one) and click Upload.

With just a few clicks, you can also send photos or videos directly to friends or family via text message, email or bluetooth. For photos taken with your phone, you can perform simple edits like cropping or rotating, and can set any photo as a contact icon or wallpaper. To share or edit photos, simply click “Menu” from any photo to bring up the options.

The new Gallery app also makes finding photos really simple. In any album, you can switch between the standard view and grouped view using the toggle at the top right. When you’re in grouped view, photos and videos are automatically grouped into digital stacks by date and time, and even by location if geotagging is enabled.

Here’s a short video that shows features of the Nexus One camera and Gallery in action:

For now, the Gallery is native to the Nexus One, but it will be available in the future for other Android devices with Android 2.1 or later versions.

We are standing in Place Honoré II which is the tiny square by the entrance to the Old Town – Porte Saint-Antoine.

Is this a tiny room or more likely a walk-way from one part of the building to another?

This square is actually at the foot of the Basilique Saint Michel and is named for the Prince of Monaco (1597 – 1662) who was responsible for many of Menton’s beautiful buildings, including the Basilica itself.

You can see a super photograph of the whole of this square taken by Chuckeroon of Richmond-upon-Thames DP by clicking HERE. Many of you know that Chuckeroon fell on black ice just before Christmas breaking his shoulder, hip and femur. He’s now back home from hospital but confined to one room and is not able to put any weight his bones until the 4th February. Then he’ll start six weeks of physiotherapy. Get well soon, Chuckeroon! We miss you.