Sense of Place—Week 8 Gallery
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- Venetian Blue Hour
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- Venetian Blue Hour
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- Long exposition, tripod, low ISO, Nikon D300,
Photo and caption by zsuzsanna luciano
Location: Venice - Italy
Category: Sense of Place
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- Typical Duba Plains
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- Typical Duba Plains
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- A scene often encountered in Duba Plains, lion on the wide open grassy Plains ahed of the days' hunt.
Photo and caption by Frits Hoogendijk
Location: Duba Plains, Okavango Delta, Botswana
Category: Sense of Place
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- Spirit of the Maasai...
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- Spirit of the Maasai...
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- In October, 2010, while en route to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, our car broke down. While my husband sorted out a makeshift solution to our broken transmission hose, my daughters and I enjoyed a few hours in the car looking at birds and reading some good books. About one hour into our unexpected sojourn, two Maasai men came walking up the road. The red dirt of Kenya was piled up to make a barrier on the road, as construction was underway, and watching the two men walk slowly through the countryside seemed to capture the essence of rural Kenya to me.
Photo and caption by LeeAnne Lavender
Location: Eastern Kenya (about 10 km. north of the Tanzanian border)
Category: Sense of Place
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- Early morning in the elephant camp.
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- Early morning in the elephant camp.
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- Mahouts arrive at dusk to prepare their elephants for the day at the Anantara elephant rehabilitation centre, Chiang Saen, Northern Thailand. The centre is located in the Golden Triangle, an area bordering Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.
Photo and caption by Andy Callan
Location: Chiang Saen, Thailand.
Category: Sense of Place
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- In the dephts
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- In the dephts
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- This photo I took while diving in the Seychelles. Pure depths offered me such a glance
Photo and caption by Petr Palous
Location: Seychelles
Category: Sense of Place
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- London's Luminescence
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- London's Luminescence
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- As the sun sets behind an iconic London cityscape, three individuals remain focused on their personal activities - one young lady passes by ignoring the camera, one woman reflects on the scene and one man reads his book. Reflective light illuminates this man reading - a building behind the photographer contains gold-sheeted windows - a brilliant surface for adding a touch of warm light to the subject.
Photo and caption by Eric Kruszewski
Location: London, England
Category: Sense of Place
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- Atlanta skyline in Wine Glass
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- Atlanta skyline in Wine Glass
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- The entire stretch of Atlanta skyline(Midtown) captures through the water in a glass.
Photo and caption by Balavignesh Muthukaruppan
Location: Atlanta
Category: Sense of Place
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- Intrepid Travelers
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- Intrepid Travelers
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- Bedouin and camels turn away from the wind during a sandstorm in the Moroccan Sahara. One Bedouin and camel brave the elements to look in my direction.
Photo and caption by Karina Puikkonen
Location: Merzouga, Morocco
Category: Sense of Place
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- Sunrise over the ancient metropolis
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- Sunrise over the ancient metropolis
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- This photo was taken from a hot air balloon during the sunrise over the Teotihuacan ruins outside of Mexico City. There was a festival going on below us and they were shooting off little fireworks that created a smoky haze that added a beautiful, mystical element to the photo. I love the contrast between the old ruins and the relatively newer form of human civilization (the balloons), giving this a rather extra-terrestrial feel.
Photo and caption by Jonathan Roman
Location: Teotihuacan Ruins - Mexico City, Mexico
Category: Sense of Place
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- jst two alone
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- jst two alone
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- Everything shuts down, on Sunday morning La Habana is almost an empty town. Everyone stays home or attend the mass, except for this man who is walking home with his lunch...
Photo and caption by elena fava emerson
Location: La Habana, Cuba
Category: Sense of Place
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- Equatorial Ice Wall
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- Equatorial Ice Wall
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- As we were looking for a way around a gigantic ice wall en route to the summit, I just couldn't get it through my head that we were less than 50 miles from the equator. Mt. Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador. Elevation 19,344 ft.
Photo and caption by brent rising
Location: Mt. Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Category: Sense of Place
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- Standing on the Edge of the World
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- Standing on the Edge of the World
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- My daughters ran ahead as we were hiking in the Bavarian Alps, and as they stood to look out, the sun burst through the clouds. It appeared as if they were standing on the edge of the world.
Photo and caption by Valerie Sawatzky
Location: Bavarian Alps, Germany
Category: Sense of Place
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- Street corner in New York City
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- Street corner in New York City
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- On a cool October afternoon this photo captures the hustle and bustle of life in NYC. From bicycles to "Empire" trucks, people are making their way to somewhere.
Photo and caption by Stephanie Pollard
Location: New York City Midtown
Category: Sense of Place
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- Silent witnesses in Berlin
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- Silent witnesses in Berlin
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- With its wide, open spaces, “holes” in the urban fabric that have yet to be filled after its rapid reconstruction, Berlin still seems to be an incomplete city. Symbols of memories, statues, which should be integrated with the city’s bold, modern architecture and cosmopolitan spirit, at times appear to be emerging into the open space like isolated figures: silent witnesses with nobody to tell their story to.
Photo and caption by Raffaele Tuzio
Location: Berlin
Category: Sense of Place
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- Young performer
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- Young performer
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- A young girl walks on a wire 6 feet above an on-looking crowd. As she balances herself expertly on the wire, she sways vigorously from side to side to show off her acrobatic skills. Caught on a cold winter morning in front of Jaisalmer Fort, India, a tourist attraction where traders and performers gather to ply their trade.
Photo and caption by WaiMei Chan
Location: Jaisalmer, India
Category: Sense of Place
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- In Galapagos's San Cristobal Island, sea lions are part of of the residents. They are everywhere other than beaches.This shot was taken @ night time.
Photo and caption by Chyong Hsien
Location: Galapagos
Category: Sense of Place
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- moving leopard
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- moving leopard
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- This leopard was spotted very early one morning on a game drive. The shot was difficult because of the high grass, morning mist, lack of sufficient light and the animal moving steadily through the bush.
Photo and caption by Brenda Davenport
Location: Kruger National Park, So. Africa
Category: Sense of Place
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- Small Living Buddha at Golden Temple
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- Small Living Buddha at Golden Temple
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- Golden Temple (Hiranya Varna Mahaa Vihar) is one of the most sacred place of Buddhist in Nepal. In that temple, a strictly picked child is served and regarded as a small living Buddha. I was lucky to catch this moment when he was in the daily ceremony of serving the Buddha.
Photo and caption by YEN-YI LEE
Location: Patan, Nepal
Category: Sense of Place
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- Los Angeles
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- Los Angeles
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- Los Angeles- a city bustling with urban energy, a city epitomized by traffic and thereby traffic speed limits.
Photo and caption by Wajid Drabu
Location: Los Angeles
Category: Sense of Place
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- Barcelona
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- An aerial view of Barcelona looking towards Government building and La Rambla (on the right) from the viewing deck of Columbus Tower.
Photo and caption by Wajid Drabu
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Category: Sense of Place
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- View of Paradise
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- View of Paradise
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- View of Paradise from a swimming pool since the coast of Tahiti. We can see in the background Moorea, the sister island, French Polynesia. The blue and the dominant color of this outstanding country.
Photo and caption by Pommeyrol Vincent
Location: Tahiti island, French Polynesia
Category: Sense of Place
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- Stunning Isolation
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- Stunning Isolation
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- This lighthouse near the town of Vik, in southern Iceland, seems to exist within a void, miles from the nearest point of concentrated habitation. Through this photograph, I sought to relate this unearthly quiet and loneliness.
Photo and caption by Matthew Schweitzer
Location: Vik, Iceland
Category: Sense of Place
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- Inisheer The Timeless Island
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- Inisheer The Timeless Island
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- Inisheer Island,where probably teh time stopped...
Photo and caption by Zoltan Bekefy
Location: Inisheer Island,Co.Galway,Ireland
Category: Sense of Place
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- Fountain of Youth
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- Fountain of Youth
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- During my trip to Milford Sound on the South Island of New Zealand, the boat tour took us to many waterfalls in the sound, but this one stood out the most. The water was crashing down with such force that is sprayed across the surface upon contact. The tour guide encouraged all of the women on the boat to get on the helm of the boat so that they could feel the spray. He claimed that if the splash sprayed onto the face of any female, they would not develop wrinkles. But this only worked for females. That is how this photograph earned its title.
Photo and caption by Joshua Osias
Location: Milford Sound, South Island, New Zealand
Category: Sense of Place
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- If the water could talk...
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- If the water could talk...
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- After a long day of trying to capture the sense of Venice I finally decided to get a little break and enjoy gondola ride. That is when I really felt the Venice. I could not help but wonder: what secrets are buried under these waters; what stories could be told, if the water could talk?...
Photo and caption by Yuliya Krupnik
Location: Venice, Italy
Category: Sense of Place
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- Fall Lights
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- Fall Lights
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- This was a sunset taken in East Lyme, Connecticut during the fall of 2010 on the way home from work.
Photo and caption by Jon Grey
Location: East Lyme, Connecticut
Category: Sense of Place
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- Idaho Drive
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- Idaho Drive
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- Driving route 20 in Idaho provides many opportunities to glance back at a time long past. This old, abandoned church was one of many places along this beautiful scenic drive.
Photo and caption by George Grubb
Location: Route 20, Idaho
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- The Colors of Burano
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- The Colors of Burano
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- Burano, a small island within the Venetian Lagoon explodes with a cornucopia of color from building to building. Each pastel home embodies the spirit of the people who live there - cheerful, warm and always colorful. The town is filled with the signs of a welcoming and open community; potted plants on windowsills, dirtied shoes left outside and laundry strewn from every window. This bedroom community receives thousands of tourists each year from the Venice area to marvel in the quiet, colorful splendor that is this small Italian island town.
Photo and caption by Matt Dutile
Location: Burano, Italy
Category: Sense of Place
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