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Couple Dancing Shoes, late afternoon, San Francisco, CA.
At Lands End.

A beautiful Butterfly in DC

Beautiful Butterfly in Washington DC

Our Bandstand in Oberlin is designed like a Japanese cart. One sunny Autumn day, I snapped a photo of it in all its beauty.

Our town, Oberlin, Ohio, has Three Huge Rocks that can be painted to express anything the painter is feeling. This particular time, I believe that it was a rock-solid proposal!

I took a vacation in Morro Bay and had a boat ride in the afternoon, I was mesmerized by the amber colors that struck my eyes with boats moving to dock as the sun sets.

Every morning for our writer's retreat in Honesdale, Pa. one of the cooks would get up before dawn to cook such a breakfast as this. I took her portrait at 7 am and she looked just as pleased as punch

I Love You Brother

I Love You Mommy

and a ptarmigan in a pine tree.

In the town of Hilo on the Big Island, this man was making baskets out of palm leaves.

Seagull cruising past the cruise ship in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The sunlight was hitting the gull at the right angle to make the wings glow!

Last winter was one of the worst in the history of my life. The man in this photo, my husband, agrees.

One morning at sunrise on the beach at Waimanalo, Oahu, I saw this weathered tree. I wondered how long it had been sitting there, in paradise. Frankly, I was jealous.

Freshly Plowed Field

Annual Miss Liberty Bell Pagent

Am I late for lunch? A squirrel arrives a bit too late for the hand-out

Emerald Waves of Grain

At Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, I saw this tree against the black lava ground and it looked like it had tried to make it out, but couldn't reach far enough to succeed.

8th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

We Can Fly

We Can Fly

TAGS: California, United States

Fremont, California, United States of America

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© Manuel Cuason.
All rights reserved.

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Date Taken:

08.2010

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Nov. 17, 2010, 2:49 p.m.

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Canon EOS 7D

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85mm

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1/125

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f14

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PHOTO LOCATION Fremont, California, United States of America