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  • Hikers crossing the Kilauea Caldera in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. Photographed from the crater rim trail.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Inside the Lava Tube Caves at Lava Beds National Monument, the largest concentration of lava tubes in the U.S. California.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Magwa Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Dorji barking at deer, Napa Valley, CA
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon
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  • North Rim of the Grand Canyon, AZ
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • Shepherd's Dell State Park near Portland, OR
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  • Shepherd's Dell State Park near Portland, OR
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  • The annual Tevis Cup 100-mile endurance horse race from Squaw Valley to Auburn, California crosses the Sierras near Cougar Rock.
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  • Jack Menzel and friend Susanna in the Ventana wilderness at the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wilderness riding in Skyline Park, Wilderness Park, Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Kuang Si Waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Buddhist stauary on Phousi Hill in the center of Luang Prabang.
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  • Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries..
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  • Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries..
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  • Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.  Nesting pairs on the Gentoo penguin colony on the island tend their eggs and chicks. They have to be vigilant to ward off skua birds who try to eat the eggs and chicks. The penguins swim to catch food for themselves and their chicks several times a day..
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  • Gentoo penguins marching down to the sea for a swim to catch food for themselves and their young chicks near Port Lockroy, Antarctic Treaty Historic Site No. 61, British Base A. Home to a small Gentoo penguin colony. Antarctica.
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  • Villagers on their way to Sunday market pass thru the Inca ruins at Pisac, Peru.
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  • Inca ruins and switchback road leading up from the river at Machu Picchu, Peru, seen from the summit of Waynapichu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Phillip Greenspun walks by the portable toilets after an afternoon on Pu'u Kala beach, Big Island of Hawaii. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A path through the woods covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Sea shell design in the stone pavement of the Camino de Santiago, adjacent to the Parador Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Spain.
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  • Grape picking near  San Vincente de la Sonsierra for the Remelluri Bodega in Labastida (Alava Province). Rioja, Spain.
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  • An unexploded rockeye submunition (cluster bomb), in the Manageesh Oil Field. After finding these rockeye submunitions all over Kuwait, the British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. When they are found close to a burning oil well, a string is attached and it is dragged to a cooler distance to be detonated. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • North Rim of the Grand Canyon, AZ
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  • McDonald Ranch house where the bomb core was assembled at Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • A racer in the World Cup mountain bike race at Skyline Park. Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • The Emir's Gardens during the Kuwait oil well fires. The huge botanical desert retreat was slowly destroyed by the flames of burning rivers of oil from nearby wells that were torched by retreating Iraqis. I photographed the gradual destruction of this walled compound in March, May and July of 1991. This was one of the last small palm tree to succumb to the fires in July, 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Camel slaughtered for meat by the side of the road in Mogadishu, Somalia. March 1992.
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  • A freshly slaughtered calf by the side of the road near Mogadishu, Somalia. March 1992.
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  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. (1983)
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • A runner, bottom right, takes an early morning run on eroded hills. Seen from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Feast day fireworks over the castle of Olite, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Feast day fireworks over the castle of Olite, Navarra, Spain.
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  • The British Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team marking a safe route to drive through the Manageesh Oil field in Kuwait. After finding rockeye submunitions (cluster bombs) all over Kuwait, they detonate them with plastic explosives from a safe distance. Nearly a million land mines were deployed on the beaches and along the Saudi and Iraqi border. In addition, tens of thousands of unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs dropped by Allied aircraft) littered the desert. July 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • The Emir's Gardens during the Kuwait oil well fires. The huge botanical desert retreat was slowly destroyed by the flames of burning rivers of oil from nearby wells that were torched by retreating Iraqis. I photographed the gradual destruction of this walled compound in March, May and July of 1991. This was one of the last small palm tree to succumb to the fires in July, 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Radio Telescope: The Mars Antenna in the Mojave Desert, California. Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. Standing 24 stories tall, the Mars antenna is the largest dish at Goldstone. It was originally built as a 64-meter-diameter (210-foot) antenna and received its first signal from the Mariner 4 mission to Mars. By 1988, the Mars dish, along with the 64-meter antennas in Spain and Australia, was upgraded to 70 meters (230 feet). These 70-meter antennas increase the receiving power of the Deep Space Network. Time exposure shows the rotation of the earth (the light from stars are recorded as curved steaks). (1983)
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Rice: Aerial view of rice fields at Grey Lodge Waterfowl Management Area, Butte County, California, USA.
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  • Crop dusting. Seeding rice fields in Richvale, California, USA. Laser leveled fields.
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  • Village of Leoz, in Navarra, Spain.
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  • Feast day fireworks over the cathedral in Olite. Navarra, Spain.
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  • Religious statue, Santa María de Eunate, Province of Navarra. The Church of Saint Mary of Eunate is located in the center of the Ilzarbe Valley on the pilgrims' road to Santiago de Compostela. It was built in the 12th century at the same time the pilgrims trail was expanding at a rapid pace. It is purported to be one of the three funerary chapels that marked the road to Santiago de Compostela. The building was restored in the early 1900's. Navarra, Spain.
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  • While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood at Cap Hope  village, Greenland.  (Emil Madsen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight.
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  • Winery on the Silverado Trail in Napa Valley, California.
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  • Local tribesman wearing a penis gourd, called a horum, and a hat of bird feathers carries a sack of vegetables and handful of bananas on a trail near Kurima, in the central highlands of the South Baliem Valley, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. His body is rubbed with pig grease to help protect him from chilly weather. Since the making of this photograph, Irian Jaya was renamed Papua.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). While Emil Madsen stows away the gear and winches the boat ashore, his nephew Julian and son Abraham drag the freshly killed seal up to the house, followed by inquisitive dogs licking up the trail of blood. Although the boys are almost staggering with tiredness (it is 1:30 in the morning) they haul the animal inside, leaving it in the hallway by the bathroom overnight. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 152).
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  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Long-exposure view of Dinosaur Cove by moonlight. The streaks in the sky are star trails created by the long time exposure. Dinosaur Cove, near Cape Otway, southern Australia is the world's first mine developed specifically for paleontology, normally the scientists rely on commercial mining to make the excavations. The site is of particular interest as the fossils found date from about 100 million years ago, when Australia was much closer to the South Pole than today. [1989].
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  • Astronomer Geoff Marcy above the lights of the UC Berkeley Campus surrounded by light trails representing swooping eccentric orbits of exoplanets. Unlike the planets of our solar system, the orbits of most of the exoplanets Marcy and his team have discovered are squashed into shapes more like ovals, footballs, and cigars.
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The Biosphere 2 Project’s twenty-seven foot test module seen with star trails at night in a long exposure. The building to the right is an atmospheric chamber used to equalize the air pressure in the module. The Biosphere was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at the possibility of future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson Arizona, and is entirely self-contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water- tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life over their two-year stay in the building, producing all of their own food and supporting the whole environment in five 'biomes'; agricultural, rain forest, savannah, ocean and marsh.  1986
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  • Palm trees with star trails behind them at Thousand Palms, California.
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  • Arizona. Lightning. Time exposure image of lightning strikes over Tucson, Arizona, USA..The silhouette of a giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) is in the foreground at right and left. Car tail light trails are also seen in the foreground. Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Photographed in Tucson, Arizona, USA. .
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  • Columbus Monument with time exposure traffic red taillight trails, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Columbus Monument with time exposure traffic red taillight trails, Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Rocket-triggered lightning launch site at Mosquito Lagoon near Cape Canaveral (Kennedy Space Center), Florida. Shooting a rocket into overhead thundercloud causes a lightning strike. A fine copper wire trailing from the rocket creates a path for the cloud's electric charge. (1991)
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  • Rocket-triggered lightning launch site at Mosquito Lagoon near Cape Canaveral (Kennedy Space Center), Florida. Shooting a rocket into overhead thundercloud causes a lightning strike. A fine copper wire trailing from the rocket creates a path for the cloud's electric charge. (1991)
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  • Lightning research. Scientists prepare a rocket designed to fly into a thunderstorm and trigger a bolt of lightning. The rocket trails a fine copper wire, providing an easy path for the lightning to reach Earth. This allows the scientists to measure the current, voltage and other parameters of the lightning bolts. To ensure safety, the rocket is launched by blowing through a tube to activate a pneumatic switch. This prevents the operator from making accidental electrical contact with the lightning. Photographed at Mount Baldy, New Mexico USA.
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  • Lightning research. Scientists prepare a rocket designed to fly into a thunderstorm and trigger a bolt of lightning. The rocket trails a fine copper wire, providing an easy path for the lightning to reach Earth. This allows the scientists to measure the current, voltage and other parameters of the lightning bolts. To ensure safety, the rocket is launched by blowing through a tube to activate a pneumatic switch. This prevents the operator from making accidental electrical contact with the lightning. Photographed at Mount Baldy, New Mexico USA.
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