Spontaneous Moments—Week 12 Gallery
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- This picture was taken at Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia.
Photo and caption by Jin Choi
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- I was visiting a Santhal tribal village in rural, West Bengal when suddenly this boy passed me by. I picked up my camera and captured him at play. I loved how the light fell on the hut and his body.
Photo and caption by Anirudha Robi Chakraborty
Location: Santhal Village, West Bengal, India
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- We were in Seurasaari, Finland, celebrating Midsummer, when I captured this photo of a father and his children playing with soap bubbles. I was trying to capture the bubble, and got this, instead.
Photo and caption by Shelley Baumeister
Location: Seurasaari, Finland
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- During a trip to Los Angeles, USA, I decided to wait outside this shop while my friends went inside for shopping. As I watched these 3 people standing together seemingly unrelated, it reminded me of how we evolve from childhood to old age, from playing with toys as a young child to organizing our lives as an adult to the care our bodies need more of as we grow older.
Photo and caption by Ali Ghorbani
Location: Los Angele, USA
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- Cruising through the Amazonian rivers early morning, This beautiful white crane came out of nowhere from the dense jungle to search for breakfast. I shoot this photo with back-light and fast speed. I was so happy that it come out the way I want it.
Photo and caption by keiking lam
Location: Amazon Basin, Peru
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- Those people decided to have their lunch break in quite unusual place...
Photo and caption by Magdalena Biskup
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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- A walk in the times square and you can experience anything! A different aspect,in an ordinary day!
Photo and caption by Philip Soteriou
Location: New York,Times Square
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- A young woman looking on at some activity happening during an event happening in a fishing village.
Photo and caption by Nadia Huggins
Location: Laborie, Saint Lucia
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- A man stands by a pool in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Photo and caption by Nick Elprin
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- A toddler, still in his pajamas, tramps across finely pruned grass to stake claim of the shuffle board.
Photo and caption by Ryan Wordell
Location: Maui, HI
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- The Friendship Highway connecting Lhasa and Kathmandu crosses the high Tibetan plateau. This desolate two-lane road sees much less traffic than its name implies and during one of the frequent road closures my husband leaned back for a nap. Instantly he was the center of attention for local villagers.
Photo and caption by Shannon Jensen
Location: Old Tingri, Tibet
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- This boy was getting back by throwing purple powder at a group of people on the streets during the Holi Festival in Nepal.
Photo and caption by James Chong
Location: Nepal
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- A nun taking the picture to inmortalize the moment of the Beato Juan Pablo II... The day before of the beatification ceremony...
Photo and caption by Alejandra Baca
Location: Basílica de San Pedro, Rome, Italy
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- With 16,000 square feet of waiting room, New York city's Grand Central Station can be a daunting place even for the most well seasoned traveler. On my way to a weekend out of the city and always with my cameras I came upon this moment of a lost little girl and the information booth attendant. The body language of both bespoke the tension and uncertainty of the moment and also contained a promise of resolution. Several minutes later the young traveler was greeted by her mom who had turned her back on the little girl for a moment and lost her for what seemed like an eternity.
Photo and caption by Jay Dorfman
Location: Grand Central Station, NYC
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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- Rabbi at Matzah Bakery
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- This Rabbi overseas the baking of Matzah (Unleavened bread) for Passover using ancient traditional methods. He keeps the dough moving untill it's ready to be rolled so as not to allow it to rise.
Photo and caption by Andre Reichmann
Location: Kiryas Joel, New York
Category: Spontaneous Moments
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