<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0db9e610-a3c5-4d27-9e2f-d307b2a63754/0CEAECFF-2345-481A-9D67-614D5657BE0E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/" href="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.photos-of-the-year.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/"><B>Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II in Russia & Kazakhstan</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#cccccc><SPAN style="FLOAT: left"> <TABLE height=270 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=320 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></SPAN>I've just reached home in Malaysia, after driving 17,000 km over 65 days in a 4x4 Range Rover, starting from London and passing through Holland, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Laos and Thailand. <BR></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.photos-of-the-year.com/img/20F584EA-8231-402A-BB9A-630DCB33D84A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/"> the "Lollypop" Cathedral, the signature image of Moscow, otherwise known as the Cathedral of the Intercession or Cathedral of St Basil the Blessed. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/articles/1dsmkii/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.photos-of-the-year.com/img/3ABD4BDB-1D66-4C77-B772-ED036235118F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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