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Canada Geese, Netherlands

Canada Geese, Netherlands

Japanese Maple, Oregon

A Japanese maple reveals autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden.

Mount Bromo, Indonesia

Taken in the morning at Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia

Morning Forest, Germany

Photo was taken on September 25, 2011, at 7:46 a.m. in Vorderweidenthal, a municipality in Südliche Weinstrafle district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany

Alatna River Valley, Gates of the Arctic

Alatna River Valley, August 19, 2010

“I paddled across this deep, slow-moving river in my small pack raft,” says adventurer Andrew Skurka. The Alatna meanders south from the Gates of the Arctic National Park.

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