Outdoor Scenes—Week 12 Gallery
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- Church and Rainbow
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- Photgraphed in 2011 while storm chasing north of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan
Photo and caption by Mark Duffy
Location: Near Moose Jaw Saskatchewan Canada
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- He's Lost His Mind
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- He's Lost His Mind
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- While exploring the public art displays of Old Town Alexandria, VA, I came across him gazing mindlessly upon the Potomac River. I looked up at him and wondered what had made him lose his mind.
Photo and caption by Ankur Gogia
Location: Alexandria, VA
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- Heart of Kauai
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- Heart of Kauai
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- Kauai's Mount Waialeale; generally considered the rainiest spot on the planet, drops much of its water down 3,000-foot walls so sheer, that there are only two days per year where the sun passes overhead; leaving no shadows on all of its walls. Lucky indeed to be overhead in an open cockpit airplane when this occurs. Luckier still to be there after one of the rainiest days of the year and after the clouds part for your photographic dream of a lifetime.
Photo and caption by Leona Boyd
Location: Kauai
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Skyline, Melbourne
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- Skyline of Melbourne at Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, Australia.
Photo and caption by Jin Choi
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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- Early morning in Taormina, after rain.
Photo and caption by Marek Kubinek
Location: Sicily
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- Flower Vendor on Dal Lake
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- I was riding a sikara, a small rowboat, behind this boat with flowers. The flower vendor was going to the houseboats on Dal Lake to sell his flowers. I saw this beautiful scenery unfold in front of me.
Photo and caption by Anirudha Robi Chakraborty
Location: Dal Lake, Srinigar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- The Frozen City
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- The Frozen City
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- It was one of the coldest winter time in Chicago, the Windy City. The shot was taken around evening, with Kodakchrome 64 back in November/Oct 2011.
Photo and caption by Darren Choong
Location: Chicago
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- Twilight Tempest
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- Twilight Tempest
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- I spent two months in Tanzania on a humanitarian engineering mission; we worked in Mwamgongo, a small village north of Gombe Stream National Park, for two weeks. Mwamgongo is accessible only by boat, and the entire economy is dependent on fishing sardines. During the rainy season, storms struck suddenly and violently. Here, one rolls in across Lake Tanganyika as the sun sets and men ready their boats for a night of fishing.
Photo and caption by Theodore Sumers
Location: Mwamgongo, Kigoma Region, Tanzania
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Reindeer breeder day
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- On the Reindeer breeder day in April, Yamal region, Russia
Photo and caption by Sergey Anisimov
Location: Yamal region, Russia
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- Sunrise in Sossusvlei
Photo and caption by Petra Warner
Location: Sossusvlei, Namibia
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- Given to fly
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- Given to fly
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- As a child, I believed that dragonflies were the inspiration behind the invention of the helicopter, and since then have found the fascinating. I found this gold dragonfly on my mosquito net and decided to photograph the back of a dragonfly to get a better look at the mechanism that enables them to fly.
Photo and caption by tiziano hurni-cranston
Location: Bali, Indonesia
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- Playful Dolphin
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- Playful Dolphin
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- I took this onboard the USS MOUNT WHITNEY while engaged in Operation Odyssey Dawn. I situated myself on the bow, only my legs attached, and followed this dolphin for about 10 minutes. Every time he would get ready to jump, I would begin firing. This was by far the best photo that came out of the bunch! You can see the warship's sonar dome towdards the top of the picture.
Photo and caption by Adam Allegro
Location: Central Mediterranean Sea
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- Defeated
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- A large old tree, resting in the lake. Lake Maggiore, Italy
Photo and caption by Matteo Colombo
Location: Lombardy, Italy
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- The Windy Pond
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- Sunset time and a little pond overlooking the water bungalows seemed the perfect spot for a wavy shot.
Photo and caption by Paolo Evangelista
Location: Bora Bora, French Polynesia
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- Radiance
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- Radiance
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- This image was taken at Cape Point Nature Reserve, South Africa, a unique area where flora have to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, together with endemic fauna and spectacular geological features. This image was taken at sunrise during gale force winds, as the sun broke through clouds screaming over the mountain side which dramatically drops into the ocean. The light was spectacular and changed so rapidly that I found myself scrambling to get a decent composition which hopefully conveyed its beauty. Canon 5D, EF17-40 mm f/4L @ 17 mm, 1/250s+1/60s @ f/16, ISO 200. Blended Exposure.
Photo and caption by Christoph Fischer
Location: Cape Point Nature Reserve, Cape Province, South Africa
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- Poor Window Washers
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- Poor Window Washers
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- On a very cold January morning in Dallas, TX.
Photo and caption by Christopher O'Brien
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Terror on the Plains
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- Terror on the Plains
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- Travelers caught on the open road were forced to pull over and wait out this tornado as it crossed the road.
Photo and caption by Valarie Namen
Location: Campo, Colorado
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- 81 Degrees North
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- 81 Degrees North
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- On the fourth day of our expedition cruise, our ship turned north leaving the coast of Spitsbergen behind us and sailing north for the Arctic ice pack we encountered this polar bear deftly negotiating the unstable ice floes.
Photo and caption by Shannon Jensen
Location: Spitsbergen, Norway
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- Balloon over Balloon Over Village in Bagan, Myanmar
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- Balloon over Balloon Over Village in Bagan, Myanmar
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- A nice allignment of my balloon over another balloon floating at dawn in Bagan Myanmar.
Photo and caption by Andre Reichmann
Location: Bagan, Myanmar, Burma, Ballooning
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- Beauty in our own backyard
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- Beauty in our own backyard
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- One need not travel halfway around the world to find a landscape that is both spectacular and serene. Taughannock Falls, in New York's Finger Lakes region, shrouded in early morning mist is reminiscent of ancient Chinese landscape paintings.
Photo and caption by Marie Hagen
Location: Taughannock Falls State Park, Ulysses, New York
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- Bristlecone and Stars
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- The stars appear to leave circles in the sky around Polaris ( a.k.a. the North Star) just above the top of a living ancient Bristlecone tree in the White Mountains of central California. These magnificent trees are among the oldest living things on earth, and it was incredible to spend a night with them under the dark sky, awash with stars.
Photo and caption by Grant Kaye
Location: White Mountains, California
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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- Golf Ball Iceberg
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- Golf Ball Iceberg
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- Iceberg in Southern Ocean near Antarctica Penninsula
Photo and caption by Elaine Heron
Location: Southern Ocean
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- SUNSET, STORM & TREE OF LIFE
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- SUNSET, STORM & TREE OF LIFE
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- At sunset,a whirlwind of egrets and branches to the oncoming storm...
Photo and caption by alexander hirtz
Location: Peten, Guatemala
Category: Outdoor Scenes
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