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Pure Innocence - The pure delight only a child can express from a simple thing as jumping off a sand dune.

Feets of daring do!

Driving in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Good rains meant well fed animlas and crops on the way. These sleek animals were grazing at the side of the road.

Enjoying a family festival in Eau Claire, WI.

My daughter, standing in the falls at Willow River State Park.

Summer Coolth - my first visit to Boston, USA. Sat and watched with delight some youngsters frolicking and cooling down in the fountain at the Christian Science Plaza.

A girl, her dog and my son, enjoying the view from a city dock on Leech Lake in Walker, MN.

My daughter petting one of the more-than-average toed cats who was lying on one of the beds in the Hemmingway home. http://www.hemingwayhome.com/

My children enjoying a piece of art at the Fraconian Sculpture Garden.

View off of Sunset Key, FL. (I used to think that travel meant going far. Now I feel that travel is going somewhere new enough that you look at it with adventurous eyes.)

Let Nature be your teacher. ~W. Wordsworth

The birth, and ealry years, of a massive lightning strike.

Over the bridge to color!

Miss. Ka'Myria Peoples

Water rushes over colored rocks on the shores of Lake Superior, Canada.

A Haitian girl who was injured in the Earthquake of 2010, recovers in a rural hospital.

The eyes of an old man in Haiti tell many stories.

Portrait of a girl in a remote area of Haiti.

Curious Haitian schoolchildren peer through a hole in their classroom.

An Indigenous woman feeds a Llama in the Altiplano of Bolivia.

A shy Bolivian girl from the Altiplano carries her doll in a traditional cloth.

Sundown on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, where heaven meets earth.

A Haitian girl poses for the camera during the heat of the Caribbean Island.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

The birth, and ealry years, of a massive lightning strike.

The birth, and ealry years, of a massive lightning strike.

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© Brendan Condon.
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06.2011

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May 29, 2012, 10:12 p.m.

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