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Celebrating Memorial Day
Airport Decorations
Jones Beach Air Show
Paying Tribute
Bear Mountain Bridge
Beer Tank
Boating
Remembering the Fallen
Grilling
Rockefeller Center
Shoes
Stars and Stripes
It’s Memorial Day weekend in the United States, and Americans are spending time with friends and family, enjoying the first barbecue of the summer and remembering their fallen military heroes. While people are soaking up some rays or paying tribute to lost heroes, they’re posting some fantastic snapshots to Instagram.
Mashable has collected some of our favorites in the gallery above. Show us your Memorial Day weekend Instagram pictures and tell us about your long weekend in the comments below!
Why is the color so “off” on all those photos?
Because Instagram users overuse the filters and turn good pictures into bad ones. I think most pictures are better without them.
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Not to sidetrack, but is anyone else having trouble viewing PHOTO stories? I really want to see this and several others, but none of the “next”, “jump forward” or “view as one page” buttons respond for me any longer. Sent feedback, no response yet.
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Mashable pages are often fraught with techinical errors. Errors in grammar and lexicon are frequent too but that’s another dept, lol.
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it works fine with my Chrome browser – not with my IE – I get some of the slide show shots (not all) and when I switch to view as one page, I get one page but with 4-6 stories, not 12 or whatever it is supposed to be
Stars and Bars refers to the Confederate Flag. The picture you have posted is – naturally – the American Flag, which is referred to as Stars and Stripes.
I caught that too. What an inappropriate display of ignorance.
i like the NY bridge one!!! hope you guys are enjoying this holiday with your family, friends, or your love!! :)
Praying for online friends preparing for a great holiday !
The Converse store in NYC has a wall of shoes representing the American flag all year long :))
Awesome theme photos, happyness and pain, fun and freedom, Happy Memorial Day America! #biztag
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This was a super frustrating bait and switch of a story. All four teaser thumbnails were pictures of attractive women. Once you clicked through the slideshow, none of those images were present.
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Mashable pages are often fraught with techinical errors. Errors in grammar and lexicon are frequent too but that’s another dept, lol.
I really like the photos, very reminiscent of memorial day.
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I wish I had payed more attention when instagram was released. I had no use for it, next thing I know Oprah is using it and now it’s creating a lot of buzz. Maybe I’ll take another look.
The picture in slide #8 is not of a tombstone of someone who died in battle like the description says.
Thanks for letting us know. We’ve changed the slide so that it is not misleading. We appreciate it!
I like the “off” colors, personally. However, many of these pictures seem to be ads for corporations…I’d prefer real pictures submitted by people not looking to increase their bottom line.
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like this.
Quite Good Slides =]
What a bunch of unremarkable average photos.
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