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Seal Rock at dusk in San Francisco.

A Healthy Curiosity

A solar "powered" water boiler in Tibet; innovation from hundreds of years ago.

A Different View

This is the view from the top of the ruins at Taranatha's Phunstok Ling monastery.

A young boy in Western Tibet hangs on some prayer flags.

A little boy plays outside of a Tao temple, Chengdu China.

This monk was staying in a hermitage, on the top of a hill above Phunstok Ling Monastery.

Dance on the River.

A Mother Hawk Encourages Her Baby's First Flight with a Tasty Lure.

Masquerade party?

Outside the National Portrait Gallery during the government shutdown of 2013.

Shapes and Sizes

Streets of New Orleans

Sheikh Zayd Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Budding roses in the fading evening light.

Lighting over the city of Albuquerque from the top of the Sandia Mountains at night.

Walking by some grasses on the way to class on a cold winter evening.

At the Feast of San Gennaro on the streets of New York City's Little Italy, Louise Acampora, leader of the Red Mike Festival Band, takes a break on the stairs of the Most Precious Blood Church.

Walking through the fallen leaves while hunting with my Dad.

Spider web in the morning sunlight.

11th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A Mother Hawk Encourages Her Baby's First Flight with a Tasty Lure.

A Mother Hawk Encourages Her Baby's First Flight with a Tasty Lure.

TAGS: California, United States

Marlene Deisher-Vircsik

La Mesa, California, United States of America

Member since 2014

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© Marlene Deisher-Vircsik.
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06.2011

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Oct. 4, 2013, 10:29 p.m.

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NIKON D80

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135mm

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1/800

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f5.6

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ISO1600

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PHOTO LOCATION La Mesa, California, United States of America