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Tarpon and Silversides, Grand Cayman
Photograph by Mike Sutton Brown, Your Shot
The picture was taken at Eden Rock, Grand Cayman. For just a short time every year these silversides swarm caves and swim-throughs at Cayman's dive sites. The picture was taken late afternoon just as the sun was going down. I was hiding behind the silversides, low in the rocks. As the tarpon swam through the silversides, they eventually saw me and turned away. Just like you see in the picture.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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Silverback Gorilla, Africa
Photograph by Ian Nichols, National Geographic
Needing fuel for his efforts, the silverback soaks in a swamp for hours, methodically stripping and rinsing dirt from herb roots before munching.
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Autumn Landscape
Photograph by Olegas Kurasovas, My Shot
Autumn colors are a beautiful subject to shoot. This place has a special aura all year long, but at autumn it reveals its best.
I used a tripod standing in cold water. There were a few moments when I could have slipped in the water from slick rocks, but glad it didn't happen.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Painted Hills, Oregon Sunrise
Photograph by Glenn Traver, My Shot
Sunrise on the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills, Oregon. I had to travel three hours on very rural winding country roads in the dark, with steep drop-offs to get there for this opening shot of the day!
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Big Cypress Reservation, Florida
Photograph by Jack Dykinga, National Geographic
In the green firmament of a slough, galaxies of duckweed are stirred by slow moving waters. Florida's Seminole call this section of swamp the Jurassic.
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Storm Clouds, Grand Canyon National Park
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
Storm clouds clear to reveal frosted cliffs near Point Hansbrough in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park.
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Thunder Lake, Minnesota
Photograph by Jack Dykinga, National Geographic
Sunset flares over Thunder Lake, one of 14 small lakes on the Red Lake Reservation managed by the tribal fisheries department. It feeds Red Lake, sacred to the Chippewa and once again thick with walleyes—fish with a glassy stare revered for their sweet, snowy flesh. By 1996 decades of overfishing had decimated the Red Lake fishery. Tribal, state, and federal agencies, along with the University of Minnesota, cooperated to set up a management plan. Fishing was suspended. Walleye fry were stocked. In less than ten years the fish population exploded from 200,000 to eight million, and tribal members were allowed to resume commercial fishing.
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Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
Theatrical lights give the surface of the Gateway Arch a night sheen.
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Lightning Storm, Kentucky
Photograph by Jason Whitman, My Shot
One of several images I took on April 19th, 2009, in Christian County, Kentucky. The day was filled with rotations and wonderful lightning storms. The series of storms rolled on for about three days.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Dust Tornado, Africa
Photograph by Jeremy Lock, Your Shot
French soldiers chase down papers picked up by a small dust tornado that went right through their camp during a ten-day French Tactical Desert Survival Training Course on May 8, 2008, in Djibouti, Africa.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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