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© Samantha Fortier. All rights reserved.

The Remarkable Phenomenon: This very tiny (less than 2 cm high) ice formation is not the result of dripping water. It must have formed a a result of water being forced upward in some way. It remains

Withered by Time...

Fall Along the Presumpscot River in Maine

Taken in park of Downtown Memphis, Tennessee

Gondolas At Rest Venice

Garden of the Sea:
Low tide at sunrise reveals the unusual coral rock on this beach in South Florida

Myrtle Beach Pier Sunrise

Father and sun splashing

Austin's artwork

Good Morning Sun

Exotic insect sighting while on vacation in South Carolina.

A Spindle Should Your Finger Prick

My Mother as she watches her favorite thing in the world...patriotism. She is crying no doubt as Neil Diamond cranks "America" on the baseball field's lousy speaker system at full blast!

Bees head-to-head for hummingbird nectar.

In the midst of all this overwhelming green, there stood a lil brave blue flower.

An Iowa grasshopper contemplates fight or flight with the camera lens...

Gorgeous flower at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.

A fly resting on Forget-me-nots.

Mi Abuelo y Bracero

"There's No Such Thing As Fairies"

A tree in my backyard during a snowstorm on Christmas day.

Elderly gentleman lighting his pipe outside a bar in Nebraska

Driving through Joshua Tree National Park

9th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A Spindle Should Your Finger Prick

A Spindle Should Your Finger Prick

Samantha Fortier

Largo, Florida, United States of America

Member since 2014

Photo Information

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© Samantha Fortier.
All rights reserved.

Image Source:

digital

Date Taken:

07.2011

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41

Filed Under:

The American Experience

Camera Information

Date Uploaded:

Aug. 8, 2011, 6:25 p.m.

Camera Make:

SONY

Camera Model:

DSC-HX100V

Focal Length:

7.5mm

Shutter Speed:

1/30

Aperture:

f3.5

ISO:

ISO800

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