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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Subalpine fir trees growing in a starburst pattern.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • Tlingit weaving in the Chilkat style.
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  • Ice on a window.
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  • Detail of the main on a colorful wild horse rescued from the Sheldon Wildlife Refuge.
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  • Sunlight highlights aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, as their colors turn golden in the autumn. "Quaking aspen" is Colorado's signature tree in the high altitude of the San Juan mountains near Silverton. Aspens grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling. They spread by root suckers and new starts may pop up 100–130 ft from the parent tree. Each tree may live for 40–150 years, but the root system of the colony can be thousands of years old sending up new trunks as the older trees die off above ground.
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  • A woman works on a lace pattern in her home.
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  • Morning fog rises over Donamire Farm's fenced pastures and pastoral setting in Lexington, Kentucky
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  • The arid plateau north of the Grand Canyon is viewed from Navajo sandstone rocks of Coyote Buttes. From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • Crossbeds of Navajo sandstone paint the Coyote Buttes in hues created by the precipitation of oxides. From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.<br />
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The 280,000 acre wildness area is federally protected and a permit is required to reduce impact on the geological treasure.
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  • Shadows and sun sets on the arid plateau and rock face creating stunning colors of the Vermillion Cliffs.  From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Gold camp at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine where life is quiet in the newly built town. Villages were moved from their homes to make way for the mine.
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  • Crevace on Mer de Glace Glacier.
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  • The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art museum started by Tyree Guyton in 1986.
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  • Reflections in windows of the lighthouse at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • Blue ghostly, silhouetted mountains disappear into the distance of the vast and desolate million-acre wilderness of Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona.
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  • The Wave, a fragile sandstone formation in Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. The 280,000 acre wildness area is federally protected and a permit is required to reduce impact on the geological treasure.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave located in the Coyote Buttes section of the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail is limited to hikers with permits from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Mosaic tile floor in the historic West Baden Springs Hotel.
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  • The mysterious Nazca lines form a spider, one of many animal and geometric shapes best seen in the air in Peru's southern desert.  Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. They were made with light-colored sand when the top foot of rock was removed by an ancient culture.
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  • The mysterious Nazca lines form a monkey in the desert of southern Peru. Other animals and geometric shapes are best seen from the air. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. They were made with light-colored sand when the top foot of rock was removed by an ancient culture.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form strange two-footed animal figures in the desert of Peru. Many creatures as well as geometric shapes run for miles and are best seen from the air. They were made by exposing lighter colored soil when sun-baked stones were moved and piled up. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • Animal figures as well as geometric shapes are part of the mysterious Nazca lines best seen from the air in the Peruvian desert.  The figures--as well as triangles, rectangles and straight lines--run for several kilometers across the dry barren land. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form animal and geometric figures seen from the air.  A hummingbird shape as well as perfect geometric designs like triangles, rectangles and straight lines run for several kilometers across the desert. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form geometric shapes in the desert that are best seen from the air. Besides animals forms, there are more than 800 straight lines on the coastal plain, some of which are 30 miles Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture, which began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700.
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  • A ghost town east of Iqueque has remnants of the nitrate heyday when saltpeter was mined in the late 19th and early 20th century. Now deserted, Humberstone, was once a model company mining town offered tennis and basketball courts, a swimming pool and theater. The remains are preserved in the dry Atacama desert of Chile.
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  • Wind and water sculpted desert in the Valle de la Luna. Shadows fall in the Valley of the Moon in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth where the elements have left an array of oddly shaped polychrome forms in the desolate, eroded desert landscape. The region sometimes goes without recorded precipitation for more than a century.
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  • Center-pivot irrigation systems etch circles of grain and other crops. There is not enough in the aquifer for the inner circle to receive water.
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  • Low tide exposes sea anemones.
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  • Aerial photo shows fields with various stages of plowing, planting, growing and harvesting after a rain in Finney County, Kansas.
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  • Center-pivot irrigation systems etch circles while water grain and other crops that are harvested in Finney County, Kansas.
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  • Center-pivot irrigation systems etch circles of grain and other plants in Finney County, Kansas. These self-propelled, rotating sprinklers revolutionized farming, enabling more land to be irrigated efficiently. As the aquifer declines, some farmers only irrigate partial circles.  Each sprinkler needs to draw from a well that produces a minimum of 400 gallons of water a minute.<br />
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Aerial photo showing fields between Dodge City and Garden City, Kansas as a rainbow appears after a storm. Corn is king and a water hungry crop. Switching to milo and bison could save the aquifer for the next generation. A center pivot pumping 694 gallons a minute can pump a million gallons a day. Rain measures roughly 18 inches years  in this region and a center pivot adds an additional 18 inches or more. Most of the pivots in the 70’s pump water out at 1,000 gallons a minute.
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  • Aerial view of mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine, located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. Ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • "River scenics in Smokies."
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  • An aerial view of a  river and tributary streams near Wyhdham, Australia
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  • Aerial view of a single horse grazing in picturesque, curved-fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—easier to maintain. Lane's End is one of the most important stallion farms and breeding operations in the U.S. and also one of the top operations globally.
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  • Explosives set in pit at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold min that is located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa east of Jakarta. <br />
After men set explosions, ore is removed from the open-pit mine with electric shovels and haul trucks. Tailings from processing are disposed in the ocean and waste rock in the rainforest raising environmental concerns.
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  • Wood grain and knotholes in red cedar.
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  • Ridges in sand at Eagle Harbor at low tide looking west.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • Aerial view of Donamire Farm's fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—cheaper to maintain. A Thoroughbred horse farm doing well financially still follows the tradition with white paint.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Two birds fly across placid waters of a pond located in a gravel mine where rock is used for construction materials.
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  • An aerial view of a  river and tributary streams.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • A pattern of light streaks across a young cowboy who competes in a horse show with his trained formerly wild mustang. Special competitions for trained wild horses draws interest in their abilities when adopted.
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  • Aquatic plants, seas of grasses float among expanses of water creating a vast and serene wilderness after sunset in the Okefenokee's Chesser Prairie. A still-life pattern is reflected in water in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy women dressed in clothing of traditional patterns and work together in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Wind-blown desert sand flows across the high plains on the edge of Wyoming’s Red Desert. Killpecker Sand Dunes are one of the largest living dune system in the United States. The high-desert ecosystem is varied with buttes, sagebrush steppe, mountains and dunes that form patterns of repetition across the landscape.
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