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One Nation, Set Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
by accidentalsageMaybe it’s time for us to grow up / To open our eyes and wake up / To the fact that the world revolves around the Sun / And not around a la…
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An overview of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah / May 2008 /
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July 3, 2008. The fireworks display at Mount Rushmore National Park has got to be one of the most fantastic and patriotic I have ever seen. . / . /
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Half Dome Rocks! /
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I must of taken this photo at the right time, because the next day the flower had closed and did not open again. The photo was taken in the Tyrona National Park, Colombia.
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I think this is one of the best photos I have taken. I took this photo of our guide, who was showing off, climbing the ice peak, whilst trekking on Perito Moreno Glacier. I aimed the camera directly into the sun and click. This is the end result. When I look at the slight flare that falls upon my guide in the photo, the saying “beam me up Scotty” comes to mind. Its as if he is reaching for the stars. / Perito Moreno Glacier is located within Los Glaciares National Park, 82 km from the town of El Calafate, Argentina, it appears immense and majestic before the amazed eyes of the visitors. It is one of the few glaciers in the world which is in constant advance and growth. Its front is 5 km wide and its height reaches 80 meters above sea level. Ice blocks of different sizes continually detach from the glacier and fall into the waters of Lake Argentino, causing spine-chilling thundering sounds and amazing waves on the surface that makes this experience and viewing unforgettable.
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Jasper Creek in Canaima National Park, Venezuela is a magical place located in La Gran Sabana. It is a magical place and a unique waterfall where the action of flowing water has polished the bedrock of natural red jasper over hundreds of years to form glistening sheets of jasper. Local Indians call it Kako Paru, meaning ’fire creek’, because of the rocks fiery golden red glow. I took a close up of the jasper creek, the water is so clear and pristine that you wouldn’t know it was there unless you were standing in it. The colours are amazing. The natural red jasper creek continues on as far as the eye can see, weaving its way through the jungle.
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View of Half Dome, located in Yosemite National Park, California. /
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in Southern Utah of the United States. This canyon is shaped like an amphitheater and was created by erosion. The canyon’s distinctive look is due to its geological structures, called hoodoos, formed from wind, water, and ice erosion. This picture was taken May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film and later converted into a Black and White image.
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Located in Southwestern Utah, Zion National Park is characterized by high plateaus, a maze of narrow, deep sandstone canyons and striking rock towers and mesas. It is also a showcase of geology. Geologic processes have played an important role in shaping Zion. The arid climate and sparse vegetation allow the exposure of large expanses of bare rock. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.
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Located in Southwestern Utah, Zion National Park is characterized by high plateaus, a maze of narrow, deep sandstone canyons and striking rock towers and mesas. It is also a showcase of geology. Geologic processes have played an important role in shaping Zion. The arid climate and sparse vegetation allow the exposure of large expanses of bare rock. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film and later converted into a Black and White image. This is high quality scan and uploaded in resolution of 7200×4800 pixels at 300 dpi and will yield in a brilliant print up to poster size.
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Bryce Canyon National Park is located in Southern Utah of the United States. This canyon is shaped like an amphitheater and was created by erosion. The canyon’s distinctive look is due to its geological structures, called hoodoos, formed from wind, water, and ice erosion. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.
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Arches National Park in Southeast Utah preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, like the world-famous Delicate Arch which can be seen here in a different view than usual from the Delicate Arch Viewpoint Trail. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film.This is high quality scan and uploaded in resolution of 7200×4800 pixels at 300 dpi and will yield in a brilliant print up to poster size.
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My First Day and features
by AdrianWorldI’m very excited. On my first day I’ve been already featured as an artist in the AMERICAS NATURAL WONDERS...
I’m very excited. On my first day I’ve been already featured as an artist in the AMERICAS NATURAL WONDERS group and my picture of Bryce Canyon has also been featured. Thank you very much!
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Monument Valley is characterized by a cluster of vast and iconic sandstone buttes and provides perhaps the most enduring and most definitive image of the American West. The area is accessible from U.S. Highway 163 only and leads into Navajo reservation territory. Over the years, Monument Valley has been the setting for many Western movies making the unique sandstone formations which define this vast, open desert region so well known. This picture was taken in May of 1994 with a Minolta Dynax-aka Maxxum-7000i film camera on 35 mm Fuji slide film. This is a high quality scan and uploaded in a resolution of 7200×4800 pixels at 300 dpi and will yield a brilliant print up to poster size.
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Reflections of a Brown Bear in an Autumn Stream with the Fractalius Filter applied. Bear baiting still occurs in the Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan, although it has declined considerably overall since 2004. The events are organised predominantly by local landlords who own the fighting dogs used; the dogs are usually a cross breed similar to Pit Bull terriers. During the event the bear will be tethered to a rope 2–5 metres long in the centre of an arena to prevent escape. Bears’ canine teeth are often removed and their claws may be filed down giving them less advantage over the dogs. Each fight lasts around three minutes. If the dogs pull the bear to the ground they are said to win the fight. Bears usually have to undergo several fights during each day’s event. Bears are illegally sourced by poaching. Asiatic black bears and brown bears are known to be poached in Pakistan and used in bear baiting. Asiatic black bears are listed as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN’s) Red List of Threatened Animals. The capture of bear cubs is prohibited across three provinces of Pakistan by: the North West Frontier Province Conservation and Management Act (1975); the Punjab Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Act (1974); and the Sindh Wildlife Protection Ordinance (1972). Bear baiting was banned in Pakistan by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (1890). Pakistan’s wildlife authorities are working with animal welfare groups to eradicate the events, with some success. Baiting animals is outlawed in the Quran. The Bioresource Research Centre, a Pakistani wildlife group working to end bear baiting, use this to encourage mosques in areas where baiting occurs to add an anti-cruelty message to their Friday Khutbba (sermon). Kund Park Sanctuary in Kund, North-West Frontier Province, was opened in 2001 by the World Society for the Protection of Animals to provide a home for bears confiscated by the wildlife authorities and NGOs working to eradicate bear baiting in Pakistan.
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Stormy, rainy, and cloudy for a month now! Doesn’t make for the best of light for photography! LOL! Especially for my CHEEP camera!! Shot this in the dense forest right at dark, and the only light was behind the little walking bridge at Lost Valley, in the Buffalo Wilderness of Arkansas, USA. I could spend all day PLAYING in these woods!! ;:o)
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It is a brilliant golden sunset over a peatbog in a permafrost forest near North Pole Alaska. / . / This is from my collection: / The Golden Threshold / Calendar coming soon….. Sunsets and scenics of Interior Alaska ~ Trumpeter Swans/Tundra Swans ~ Pond and Lake Reflections ~ Boreal and Permafrost Forests~ Poetry and Quotes Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved “Once in the dream of a night I stood / Lone in the light of a magical wood, / Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang; / And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang, / And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed, / And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed / In that magical wood in the land of sleep. Lone in the light of that magical grove, / I felt the stars of the spirits of Love / Gather and gleam round my delicate youth, / And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth; To quench my longing I bent me low / By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow / In that magical wood in the land of sleep.” ~ By Sarojini Naidu Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / Shooting Date/Time 02 Aug 2007 22:16:30 / Tv Shutter Speed 1/500 Av Aperture 11.0 ISO 400 / Lens EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
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new york city downtown sunset cityscape skyline, from new jersey hudson river side, nyc, usa
by upthebannerThe region was inhabited by about 5,000 Lenape Native Americans at the time of its European discovery in 152416 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, who called it "Nouvelle Angoulême" (New Angoulême).[17] European settlement began with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement, later called "Nieuw Amsterdam" (New Amsterdam), on the southern tip of Manhattan in 1614. Dutch colonial Director-General Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape in 1626 for a value of 60 guilders (about $1000 in 2006);[18] a legend, now disproved, says that Manhattan was purchased for $24 worth of glass beads.19 In 1664, the English conquered the city and renamed it "New York" after the English Duke of York and Albany.[21] At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch gained control of Run (a much more valuable asset at the time) in exchange for the English controlling New Amsterdam (New York) in North America. By 1700, the Lenape population had diminished to 200.[22] New York City grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule. The city hosted the seminal John Peter Zenger trial in 1735, helping to establish the freedom of the press in North America. In 1754, Columbia University was founded under charter by George II of Great Britain as King’s College in Lower Manhattan.[23] The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in October of 1765 as the Sons of Liberty organized in the city, skirmishing over the next ten years with British troops stationed there. During the American Revolutionary War the area emerged as the theater for a series of major battles known as the New York Campaign. After the upper Manhattan Battle of Fort Washington in 1776 the city became the British military and political base of operations in North America, and a haven for Loyalist refugees, until military occupation ended in 1783. A major fire during the occupation led to the destruction of about a quarter of the city. The assembly of the Congress of the Confederation made New York City the national capital shortly after the war: the Constitution of the United States was ratified and in 1789 the first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated; the first United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court each assembled for the first time in 1789, and the United States Bill of Rights drafted, all at Federal Hall on Wall Street.[24] By 1790, New York City had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States. / Vanderbilt family homes, Fifth Avenue, circa 1885. Later demolished In the 19th century, the city was transformed by immigration and development. A visionary development proposal, the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan, and the 1819 opening of the Erie Canal connected the Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the North American interior.[25] Local politics fell under the domination of Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish immigrants.[26] Public-minded members of the old merchant aristocracy lobbied for the establishment of Central Park, which became the first landscaped park in an American city in 1857. A significant free-black population also existed in Manhattan, as well as in Brooklyn. Slaves had been held in New York through 1827, but during the 1830s New York became a center of interracial abolitionist activism in the North. New York’s black population was over 16,000 in 1840.[27] By 1860, New York had over 200,000 Irish, one quarter of the city’s population.[28] / Mulberry Street, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, circa 1900 Anger at military conscription during the American Civil War (1861–1865) led to the Draft Riots of 1863, one of the worst incidents of civil unrest in American history.[29] In 1898, the modern City of New York was formed with the consolidation of Brooklyn (until then an independent city), the County of New York (which then included parts of the Bronx), the County of Richmond, and the western portion of the County of Queens.[30] The opening of the New York City Subway in 1904 helped bind the new city together. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the city became a world center for industry, commerce, and communication. However, this development did not come without a price. In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city’s worst industrial disaster, took the lives of 146 garment workers and spurred the growth of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and major improvements in factory safety standards.[31] / Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from Rockefeller Center, 1932 In the 1920s, New York City was a major destination for African Americans during the Great Migration from the American South. By 1916, New York City was home to the largest urban African diaspora in North America. The Harlem Renaissance flourished during the era of Prohibition, coincident with a larger economic boom that saw the skyline develop with the construction of competing skyscrapers. New York City became the most populous urbanized area in the world in early 1920s, overtaking London, and the metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in early 1930s becoming the first megacity in human history.[32] The difficult years of the Great Depression saw the election of reformer Fiorello LaGuardia as mayor and the fall of Tammany Hall after eighty years of political dominance.[33] Returning World War II veterans created a postwar economic boom and the development of huge housing tracts in eastern Queens. New York emerged from the war unscathed and the leading city of the world, with Wall Street leading America’s ascendance as the world’s dominant economic power, the United Nations headquarters (completed in 1950) emphasizing New York’s political influence, and the rise of abstract expressionism in the city precipitating New York’s displacement of Paris as the center of the art world.[34] / The pre-9/11 skyline of Lower Manhattan, August 2001 In the 1960s, New York suffered from economic problems, rising crime rates, which reached a peak in the 1970s. In the 1980s, resurgence in the financial industry improved the city’s fiscal health. By the 1990s, crime rates dropped dramatically, many American transplants and waves of new immigrants arrived from Asia and Latin America. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in the city’s economy and New York’s population reached an all-time high in the 2000 census. The city was one of the sites of the September 11, 2001 attacks, when nearly 3,000 people died in the destruction of the World Trade Center.[35] A new 1 World Trade Center (previously known as the Freedom Tower), along with a memorial and three other office towers, will be built on the site and is scheduled for completion in 2013.[36] On December 19, 2006, the first steel columns were installed in the building’s foundation. Three other high-rise office buildings are planned for the site along Greenwich Street, and they will surround the World Trade Center Memorial, which is under construction. The area will also be home to a museum dedicated to the history of the site.
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Washington DC on a chilly fall day. This is a view of the Lincoln Memorial from the Vietnam Memorial.
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Lincoln Memorial DC
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Washington DC WW1 Memorial.
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A chilly fall day in washington.
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