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A RURAL WOMAN giving her brest milk to her baby.

Traditional dancers looking her own photographs after their performence in kolkata.

Nuns blessing a child at the mother house in Kolkata

Pupuseria (Salvadorian eatery)/pharmacy in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY.

Birds enjoying morning sun light in the river ganga at winter Varanasi.

A man walking in the misty weather at Gangtok.

Boys playing football at waterlogged street in the city of Kolkata after heavy rain

Children are playing with their paper boat at a waterlogged street in Kolkata after heavy rainfall

Man walking in snow storm on Schermerhorn St.- Brooklyn, NY

A man sitting on the mangrove root near the river bank of sundarban

Taken at the Warrenville Grove, in Illinois.

3 Aussies and 4 Americans who just met at a hostel in Flagstaff enjoy a picnic together beside the Grand Canyon.

Picture of flower taken at local nursery.

Spheres of ice that formed when a hose broke and began spraying drops of water everywhere.

Cat at the local nursery.

Taking pictures of a flower taken from a bouquet.

My wife and I made a dream trip to Tanzania, including Zanzibar. This red colobus monkey was enjoying some fruit when we crept up on him in the Jozani Forest Reserve in Zanzibar.

For the holidays.

Goal! Boy cheers a score in a game of foosball in a crowded marketplace in Dakar, Senegal.

I was babysitting this precious girl when I watched her place the crown on her head when I walked out of the room. I caught her in the act. This was her reaction

Sometimes, we need reminders.

A mother and son.

Visting an old friend.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

3 Aussies and 4 Americans who just met at a hostel in Flagstaff enjoy a picnic together beside the Grand Canyon.

3 Aussies and 4 Americans who just met at a hostel in Flagstaff enjoy a picnic together beside the Grand Canyon.

Melanie Farnham

Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Member since 2014

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09.2012

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