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  • Storm clouds are a backdrop for an osphrey nest in the top of a tree on the Suwannee River.
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  • Fresh clouds and snow surround the tip of the Matterhorn.
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  • Snow clouds cover Sassolungo Langrofel, the famous Dolomite mountain.
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  • A cable car disappears into the clouds below Aiguille du Midi.
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  • A rumble of thunder, crack of lightning, and winds blow dark clouds across the prairie alerting a mustang herd that a summer storm approaches. When the sky opened with torrents of rain, the nervous young wild horses bolted to outrun the storm.
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  • Icy winds blow snow clouds blow over the jagged ridges of the South Chilkat Mountains that rise above Southeast Alaska's coast.
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  • Rays of sunlight pierce the clouds hanging over Sitka Sound and Baranof Island. Southeast Alaska receives about 200 inches of rain a year creating its moody ambiance.
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  • A cowboy rancher rides a horse across the flat sagebrush sea of western landscape. High, windswept clouds overhead in clear blue sky is typical in Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area in Oregon's Harney County. The agreement was created to protect the land and scarce water sources valued by ranchers and wildlife.
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  • Rain that never hits the ground, virga of low-lying clouds paints a dramatic sky above Steens Mountains, a 30-mile long massif in southern Oregon. Tail lights cresting a hill are barely visible on a single lane road shared by ranchers, miners, and recreational users.
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  • Tractors pack down a giant mound of corn and milo being stored at a feedlot near Imperial, Nebraska. Pressure builds to complete the work before storm clouds roll in and ruin the crop.
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  • Tractors pack down a giant mound of corn at a feedlot near Imperial, Nebraska, before storm clouds roll in.<br />
The $24 million USD pile of corn will be consumed by 53,000 cows in a matter of months. A press to get the corn under cover creates a crazed tractor rodeo harvesting corn and red milo before the storm. Much of the region’s corn, a thirsty, irrigated crop, is grown to fatten cattle. This mound eventually stretched 300 feet long containing five million bushels. <br />
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Farmers with bedspring corrals are long gone. Big AG WON. A Darwinian dwindling of rural areas survived the Dust Bowl and the family farm crisis, and now they are facing the end of easy water. But BIG AG is still here to stay and will remain with feed lots like this one even after the easy water is gone.<br />
The math on the corn: 24 million USD is 5.25 million bushels or around $3.80 a bushel.
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  • Lake Embakaai mirrors clouds hanging above the Crater Highlands.
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  • Clouds over a green Australian plain.
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  • Clouds gather at the base of Kaieteur Falls as seen from this elevated view in the rain forest.
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  • Puffy clouds fill the sky over Devil's Tower.
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  • Storm clouds build over Cat Island as rain rolls off the Gulf of Mexico into Suwannee Sound in Florida.
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  • Sunlight streams though clouds after a storm.
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  • Storm clouds above a horse running along a ridge in the rural midwest.
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  • Trees beneath white clouds.
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  • A boab tree beneath white clouds.
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  • White clouds in a blue sky.
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  • Lightning and dramatic storm clouds seen from Ubirr rock.
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  • Rain storm clouds brewing over a swampy wetland at twilight.
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  • An aerial shot along the Essequibo River near Rockstone.  Light clouds form a translucent ceiling above the rain forest and river.  This picture focuses on part of the area a team of researchers is working in to learn about fish populations andnumbers.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Young boy gallops at full speed riding bare back on a horse leaving clouds of dust in the barren, high-mountain Peruvian desert near Chauchilla.
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  • You can see the building thunderhead in the background at this Imperial NE feedlot where workers are in the middle of a corn rodeo as many huge machines try to put up feed and corn and get it covered before the storm. Imperial has around 53,000 head of cows and the mountain in this photo is all CORN... about 24 million USD of corn in 2015 prices. 5.25 million bushels (around $3.80 a bushel in 2015).
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  • Cloud Gate or simply 'the bean' by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park.
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  • Aerial view of a rain cloud over a snaking river.
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  • A large cloud forming in a weather cell before a rain.
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  • Cloud and clear sky over a baobab tree in field with termite mounds.
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  • A gray brooding cloud over a small store in twilight hours.
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  • A boat cuts through reflections of clouds in the placid waters of the St. Mary’s River in Southern Georgia. The St. Mary’s forms a division between Florida and Georgia as it flows east to the Atlantic Ocean out of the Okefenokee Swamp.
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  • A dog runs full tilt along the coast, free and unleashed on an Oregon Beach. Storm clouds clear over Three Arch Rocks in Oceanside.
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  • Storm clouds build darkening sky above Kurilskoye Lake Preserve.<br />
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The Sea of Okhotsk to the west of Kamchatka is the coldest body of water in the Pacific Rim. Volcanic under currents create nutrient-rich upwellings, and the perfect marine environment for salmon.
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  • The volcanic landscape of Kamchatka with snowy peaks above the clouds in an aerial photograph.
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  • Lightning cracks in a cloud-filled sky with rain falling in distance.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the cowgirl works late to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • At sunset, a cowgirl drives her pick up back to the ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In morning light, the cowgirl works to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowgirl dons her black hat as ranchers prepare to brand and castrate calves in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. Her son ranches with her and works to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowboy drives a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the sky glows as the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • A cowgirl feeds her horses some oats on her ranch near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek Ranch is highly valued for water rights and for the amazing pristine land and red rock canyons.
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  • A cowgirl laughs with ranch hands as they prepare to brand and castrate calves at a ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowboy cracks his whip driving a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowboy drives a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the sky glows as the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In morning light, the cowgirl works to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • Young cowboys practice roping sheep.
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  • A cowgirl cracks her whip driving her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the cowgirl works late to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. The adjacent Indian Creek Ranch is now owned by the Nature Conservancy. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • Cloud-filled sky over log strewn beach near the forest's edge.
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  • Lighted arch against a cloud-filled sky at twilight at hotel/spa.
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  • A cloud-filled sky with rain falling in distance.
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  • A flooded road through green fields under a cloud-filled sky.
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  • A large sculpture of a fish against a cloud-filled sky.
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  • An aerial view of the cloud-shrouded Caucasus mountains.
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  • Fog lifts over forested islands and muskeg terrain above Sitka Sound. Tongass National Forest is 17 million acres, the largest temperate rainforest in the world.
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  • Three volcanoes, quiet now, formed Easter Island half a million years ago.
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  • A restored Maoi at Ahu Nau Nau.
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  • A cowgirl prepares to saddle horses at the ranch near Monticello, Utah. Ropes and halters adorn the stalls at the Indian Creek ranch is highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch is an example of preservation.
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  • A cowgirl walks from the corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved and run by a woman rancher.
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  • A cowgirl drops to the ground while ranch hands hold a calf steady for castration and branding. Cowboys on horseback sort cattily in the spring near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is now owned by the Nature Conservancy, but former owners work the ranch with respectful of the land.
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  • Fresh snow on mountains overlooking Mendenhall Glacier and Lake.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • Boat leaves harbor on Baranof Island in Sitka.
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  • Tributary of the Unuk River in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Aiquille Verte and other craggy peaks  with Mont Blanc.
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  • Bossons Glacier near Mont Blanc Tunnel.
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  • Religious icons outside a Catholic church on a hillside.
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  • Aerial view of Valley of Chamonix from a chair lift.
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  • Mont Blanc as seen from Aiguille du Midi.
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  • Mont Blanc as seen from Aiguille du Midi.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • A mare and foal crest a hill under darkening gray skies of a looming storm in South Dakota.  The silhouetted pair are part of the Gila herd of wild horses with Spanish origin that came to North America with the Conquistadors in the 1600s.
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  • A herd of mustangs move across the grasslands as a summer storm builds over the high plains. It is believed that over two million wild horses roamed the largely unfenced American West in the 1900s.
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  • A wary foal stands with his mother near other mares in the herd as they graze together.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Estuaries shrouded in morning fog are revealed in the intertidal region of the Southeast Alaskan coast along the Lynn Canal in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • Fog-shrouded mountains with evergreen forests.
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  • Field with blooming prairie smoke flowers.
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  • A dirt road cuts through a sagebrush sea to dark, cloudy skies of a distant, looming, rain storm. Sagebrush ecosystems cover vast stretches of western North America creating rangeland habitat for animals such as pronghorn antelope, black-tailed jackrabbits and sage-grouse.
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  • Two men cast crab traps into the Hackensack River at twilight.
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  • A cyclist on a 19th century style cycle pedals ahead of a thunderstorm.
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  • Man on antique bike pedals ahead of an Indiana thunderstorm.
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  • A cactus forest in the Oaxacan highlands of Mexico. The massive candelabras of the succulent Myrtillocactus geometrizans can grow up to 16 feet tall.
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  • A grandmother and her granddaughter collect grasshoppers in a Oaxaca cornfield. Fried, the insects make a tasty dinner dish.
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  • An elephant walking through the savannah.
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  • Aerials in Arkansas of the Buffalo River.
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  • A windmill in Siboli National Park on Lake Turkana.
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  • A worker fixes a power line standing on a ladder.
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  • New construction along the Dong Da Ming Road.
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  • Workers clean a swimming pool at Sasakwa Lodge in the Grumeti Reserve.
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  • Mer de Glace Glacier in the Alps has lost 1000 meters in 130 years and thinned 150 meters in the last 100.  Children don helmets and clamp on crampons and to run playing on crevices between the last bit of melting ice on the northern slopes of Mont Blanc.
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  • Rancher Leonard Baker watches the Australian sky for signs of rain.
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  • A truck stuck in a muddy road with people standing about watching.
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  • A bikini-clad woman helps Santa with his beard as a child looks on.
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  • An aerial view of a flooded river and rain storm in distance.
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  • Tourists riding camels on the beach under a cloudy sky.
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