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SORTING OF PADDY

GRANDMOTHER WITH COMPANION WITH ORIGINAL AND DUMMY.

Outside of a small store she looked up from her school book.

Beauty is found everywhere...even outside a restaurant!

Her beads in her hands she talked to Mary, mother to mother.

Double rainbow near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Sunset on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Just another day at the beach, taking in the beauty.

Driving through the middle of beautiful Montana, and just had to pull over to get this shoot.

What is the line when hope and despair? A mother and child in the chloera ward had been at the hospial in Gros Morne Haiti for a week. She was in that place between the two, just waiting.

Beautiful mountain, taken while driving on I-70 in Colorado.

Facing the Atlantic ocean sunset, the towers seem to stand in awe for the light and moment that triggers the mystic legend of sunken Atlantis. At the base of westernmost tip of continental Europe, the

"Hurry and pull over so I can take a picture of this sunflower"

In a Port au Prince tent camp they had fought hard soccer won. They were the heros, the victors and now took their salute from their honerable opponents.

A day at the beach yielded colorful beauty.

She needed surgery and waited all morning to see if there was room on the schedule for her. The surgeon came out and gave her the news that the she would have her surgery.

Wearing three hats and looking stylish she gave the starnger a seductive glance, smiled and turned away.

Pinnacles left by the erosion of the ocean on the cliffs in Praia da Ursa (beach of the bear) are home for colonies of birds, cormorans and gulls. The relative isaolation of this beach of very difficu

Edurado is a large man with a gentle touch. He had just finished his surgical shift and saw the baby in the children's ward at the hospital in Gros Morne, Haiti. He asked the mother if he could hold h

She sat waiting outside of the hospital to see the surgeon in hope that he could help. From the "Madonna Series"

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Driving through the middle of beautiful Montana, and just had to pull over to get this shoot.

Driving through the middle of beautiful Montana, and just had to pull over to get this shoot.

TAGS: Montana, United States

Glendale, Arizona, United States of America

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© Rachel Gole.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

07.2011

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Aug. 26, 2012, 11:50 a.m.

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Canon PowerShot SD1000

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10.1mm

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1/800

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f3.5

ISO:

ISO125

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PHOTO LOCATION Montana, United States of America