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Golden Gate Bridge at Night
Photograph by Wei Lee
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, is often the place where romance starts. Especially when low clouds float around the red lights at the top of the bridge, the most beautiful and romantic scenes appear around dusk and bring inspiration to photographers. With the effects of long exposure, the clouds and ocean became soft and even. The grad ND made it possible to capture this night scene in one exposure with some simple steps of post processing.
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Nudibranch
Photograph by David Doubilet
Members of the gastropod class, finger-size nudibranchs live fully exposed, their gills forming tufts on their backs. (Nudibranch means "naked gill," a feature that separates them from other sea slugs.).
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Elephant Seal Mother and Pup
Photograph by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott
An elephant seal mother and pup nuzzle to learn each other's smell. Before weaning at about three weeks, the 90-pound (40-kilogram) newborn could triple its weight, while the nursing mother may lose a third.
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Samburu Elephants, Kenya
Photograph by Michael Nichols
Saturn, an elderly mother herself, cares for two calves orphaned by the deaths of their mothers, who were her adult daughters. The extended family structure helps groups cope with such losses. At sunset along a river channel Saturn oversees the play of her own two calves and the orphans. From her behavior alone, uniformly doting, you couldn't know which was which.
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Zebra Migration, Tanzania
Photograph by Martijn van Wageningen
Zebra migration in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Bee-Eater in Flight
Photograph by Jószsef L. Szentpéteri
A brilliant blur as it plucks a butterfly from the air, the European bee-eater leads a colorful life on three continents.
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Giraffe Mother and Calf
Photograph by Denham Springs
This is mother and son.
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Lion Brothers, Australia
Photograph by Mick Tsikas
Twelve-year-old male lion brothers Tonyi, left, and Tombo lie with each other at Werribee Open Range Zoo, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Melbourne, Australia, in September 2008. Werribee Open Range Zoo occupies 225 hectares (556 acres) of land, which allows visitors in safari buses to get closer to animals. The photographs were taken by a camera in a hide and triggered remotely.
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Macaque Family, Japan
Photograph by Michael Angelo Cortez
Macaque monkeys on Mt. Misen, Miyajima Island, Japan, embrace their young and the old. This shows that monkeys may have tighter family units than us humans.
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Cuban Tree Frog, Florida
Photograph by James Snyder
This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead, having cooked himself from the inside. I'm happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don't think he was very happy when I took his light away.
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Sunlight filters through a fog-shrouded swath of Acadia National Park, Maine. To preserve landscapes they loved, a group of philanthropists in 1913 gave the nation a gift: 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) on Mount Desert Island that would become the core of Acadia National Park. The park now covers some 47,000 acres (19,000 hectares).
Michael Melford
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Meerkat
Photograph by Alastair Brown
A cheeky meerkat keeps watch over the "house." This one kept falling asleep on the job.
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The center of Yellowstone National Park's Grand Prismatic Spring steams at 199?Fahrenheit (93?Celsius), too hot for the multicolored bacteria clustering on the cooler perimeter. But dead center is no dead zone: Billions of organisms called thermophiles flourish in the scalding water.
David Mencin
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Sunrise filtering through the rising mist at the base of the falls. A perfect moment. Snoqualmie Falls, Washington 30 miles east of Seattle
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Yosemite National Park in California boasts deep valleys, a grove of ancient sequoia trees, waterfalls splashing into Yosemite Valley, and hundreds of wildlife species.
Mary Lundin
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Alaska's Lake Clark National Park and Preserve offers visitors the chance to fish, kayak, and swim in the lake抯 salmon-rich waters—also popular with bears.
Beverly Bishop
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I got this shot while traveling through Italy in December. My wife spotted the puddles in the ground and suggested they would make a great reflection.
Photograph by Douglas Wylie
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A diver explores the wreckage of a Japanese World War II fighter plane near the town of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. The waters around Rabaul, which was a Japanese stronghold during the war, are strewn with the broken remains of both Allied and Axis warships and aircraft.
Photograph by David Doubilet
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