First of all, we would like to introduce Scott McFarlane, a great filmmaker based out of southern California and a dear XShot friend.

So, the video you are about to discover is not just another travel video shot with a flip camera or Smartphone on the go… it is an amazing, beautiful and well edited film!

Scott spent two weeks backpacking Thailand with his girlfriend – floating markets, bareback elephant riding, playing with tigers, scuba diving, longboats, overnight sleeper trains, mopeds, Buddhist temples, night markets and more. Southeast Asia has endless possibilities for adventure – enjoy the video and book the next flight to Bangkok!

Shot entirely with the GoPro Hero3: Black Edition and used the XShot 2.0 extender pole.

THAI-LAND from Scott McFarlane on Vimeo.

"Couldn't have done it without the XShot 2.0! Great product!"

Thank you Scott for taking us all the way to Thailand and for your XShot love…

The Big Day is coming up and you are putting the final touches. Looking back at your bridal gift registry, you suddenly realize that you kind of prefer traveling over linens and tableware… Don't worry, you can make your registry very personal and add all the things you would enjoy with your better half.

Why not adding a National Parks Annual Pass and some cool travel gear to go with it?

The Elite Wedding Magazine just published a great article to help you plan your wedding and your honeymoon and they made a Top 5 of their Travel Essentials. Thank you so much for including the Pocket XShot camera extender, the perfect travel accessory to get the two lovebirds in the picture. 

" Want more photos of the two of you traveling together – without having to ask other people? With the Pocket XShot, a telescopic camera extender that attaches to any compact digital camera, including your iPhone, you can capture every moment in just a snap."  Source : Elite Wedding Collection.com

The other items are: 

-Badger's organic anti-bug balm

-Coolibar's Santa Cruz Reversible hats

-Comfort Travel's Sim Card Passport Holder

-Oakley retro-style rose Forehand shades for her and Vintage Deviation glasses for him.

A 1:50 of pure snowboarding pleasure with David Oliveira.

Check out his very cool snowboarding self-video with his XShot camera extender, mixed with some helmet camera footage. Sweet moves and great music

YouTube Video by  David Oliveira

Thanks David!

Dear Giufo Soulboarder continues to amaze us with his great XShot selfies : on water, in the snow and this time a self-portrait on the road. Check out what he can do on wheels, going downhill with his XShot camera extender attached to his GoPro camera on a mountainboard. Awesome…

Photo : Giufo Soulboarder

Please continue to share your pictures with us : we love it and you may be selected like this one and win prizes. You can email them atxshot@xshot.com , or upload them directly on our Facebook page.

We are thrilled to be offering lots of travel accessories for photography-minded wanderlusters this month of April!

All you have to do is enter the Travel Photo Contest hosted by our dear friends and travel experts at Wanderlust and Lipstick, the number one resource for women's travel.

The theme is a glorious one for Spring, the city of lights and city of love : PARIS!

Here’s how it works…

1) Search your archives for your favorite image(s) of Paris.

2) Choose no more than two images, resize them to no larger than 600×800 pixels and, ideally, optimized for the web.

3) Submit image(s) to: wanderlustandlipstick@gmail.com.

4) Once you’ve submitted your images, fill out a brief form to let W&L know these images are your own.

5) They’ll be added to a post on the W&L blog so you can see your own image as well as the competition.

6) Early next month, a few behind-the-scenes W&L  judges will choose a winner.

Prizes :

-1 XShot Camera Extender to help you get in the picture in your next big trip with all the beautiful background

-1 XShot iPhone Tripod Case to start using your smartphone like a camera with the right tools.

-1 XShot swag bag 

Please find all the contest details, forms and more on Wanderlust and Lipstick

Good luck guys and Go Paris!

Great self-portrait on a ski-lift with a GoPro camera and XShot camera extender by awesome Cormac on Saint Patrick's day…

Love your pants man!

Photo: Cormac O'Brien

Please continue to share your pictures with us : we love it and you may be selected like this one and win prizes. You can email them atxshot@xshot.com , or upload them directly on our Facebook page.

On the way to Spring Break or preparing your summer travels, you may want to gear up with some cool travel items and gadgets. Merilee Kern with Luxe List shows some exciting new travel gear on San Diego 6 CW TV show.

Thanks a lot for the XShot love guys and it makes our day to watch you have so much fun with it.

"The XShot is cool for people like me who love to take pictures and never get in their pictures! … I love it"

Source : video San Diego 6

Check out the other "Travel Finds other people will envy you for" on the TV segment and on the Examiner article as well.

We particularly loved the WineCruzer 8-Pack Pro wine bottle carrier. "Whether the oenophile chooses to bring their own bottles to restaurants or on vacation,  share some with loved ones miles and miles away, or visit their favorite wineries, this is a must-have travel companion." 

Quite amazing piece of equipment that could have been useful while visiting Stellenbosch South African vineyards!

Safe travels!

Must watch video!
A pure pleasure to watch Santa doing amazing flatland butters… Smooth , beautitul and funny… A pure snowboarding lesson in costume. Ryan Knapton is just awesome.

Can you spot the XShot shadow on the snow?

Ryan Knapton Filmed by Austin Kriete

Thank you Peter Liu for sending us some of your beautiful travel pictures taken with your XShot 2.0.

It looks like you are having a wonderful journey… What a trip from Amsterdam to Norway, Nepal and now China! Where can we meet you next?

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XShot travel self-portrait in Nepal

"My wife and I really enjoy traveling everywhere with the XShot 2.0 camera extender and we find it so convenient  to take pictures of ourselves anytime, anywhere without having to ask for assistance." P. L.

Simon Ellingworth, a great U.K.. photographer and  film maker, author of the photography education blog Lightism wrote a great article about self-portraits and perspectives, featuring the XShot. The post just got picked up by Lifehacker.com today. How cool is that?

"Put your camera in some new and unusual places and to stop thinking about taking pictures from the conventional eye level position."

 Check out Simon's post and discover his tips, the photo accessories he recommends and the work of other photographers who pushed the self-portrait boundaries, a great source of inspiration.

I have to say that we were curious to read about the iPhone App that can trigger a camera shutter by noise : Triggertrap. So we had to download it – it is free by the way – and there is a lot more to it!

It has a lot of features like time-lapse, time-Warp, distance-Lapse for road trips , star trail and even a Seismic meter! This is seriously great and I can wait to try it with a camera and our iPhone Tripod case. Simon's DIY tripod stand with pencils and rubber bands is pretty nifty when you forgot your XShot iPhone case

Until March 1st, 2013 you can win an XShot camera extender by posting your own creative self-portrait

on Lightism Flick group.

Good luck and have fun!