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© Rick Welch. All rights reserved.

A peach staring back....

Ice River Falls, Pretty Girl Wilderness in Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

18th Century parish church still exists alongside an old dirt road.

Smile of child labor on a Aluminum factory

Dancing to her own beat, the dancing queen reigns

Taken with a pinhole camera at the Mt. Cuba horticultural center in Delaware.

An old, peeling, but still colorful sign beneath the famous Wonder Wheel ride in Coney Island . . .

Interesting clouds over vinyard

These abandoned boots were found still tied to the fence. Freezing rain had coated them in ice the previous night.

Driving up through Canada

Mallard Duck swimming and eating in a pond in Southern Maryland

People waiting on the deck of a ferry boat

A girl who has spent the afternoon picking Nan King Cherries holds her prize in a basket.

Sometimes you and sometimes you lose -- a lesson apparently being learned (especially the one in the middle) by these three youngsters while playing an air gun game at Coney Island . . .

People from the Hindu community bathing and praying in the Bay of Bengal, on the Rash Mela festival, which is held on the full moon of the Bengali month Kartik. Dublarchar, Khulna, Bngladesh. November

Driving around Niagara-On-The-Lake Ontario. Looking across Lake Ontario at the Toronto Skyline.

A friendly lacertilian allowed me to move close to take a photograph, but not without keeping a steady eye fixed on my activities.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Pollination

Pollination

TAGS: Texas, United States

Euless, Texas, United States of America

Member since 2014

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© Rick Welch.
All rights reserved.

Image Source:

digital

Date Taken:

07.2012

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Date Uploaded:

Nov. 29, 2012, 11:20 a.m.

Camera Make:

Camera Model:

NIKON D40

Focal Length:

55mm

Shutter Speed:

1/250

Aperture:

f8

ISO:

ISO200

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PHOTO LOCATION Euless, Texas, United States of America