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A highrise building looking through a skylight window.

Chinese painting brushes are displayed for sale in an alley

Sunset looking from a street in Beijing

The souvenir booths in a small alley in Beijing

Wangfujing shopping street at night in Beijing.

The dragonfly is resting on a leave up side down.

This colourful bird looks at the camera in a strange manner.

We rode out past the sand dunes to where the ground had endured so much heat it was cracked into an elaborate geometric pattern.

This little bird is coming out from the tree hole (its home) in the morning.

This butterfly is resting and preparing for its next flight.

This dragonfly was resting on a pole in a garden.

This white withering lotus was found inside the Imperial Summer Palace in Bejing.

A pink lotus in the lake inside the Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing.

People come to the Santuario of Chimayo for a place of prayer and to give thanks. Along the way they leave their rosary for the Virgen of Guadalupe.

Freedom isn't Free...

Waterlily in a small freshwater pond in Central Massachusetts

ginger cat in the kitchen

Marine and his new born son

The wind swept us off the road and into the sand dunes while riding our quads in Johnson Valley, CA.

Fallen leaves on the pond

Tilted Perspective

Ocean Exhilaration

9th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

This white withering lotus was found inside the Imperial Summer Palace in Bejing.

This white withering lotus was found inside the Imperial Summer Palace in Bejing.

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© Man-kay KOON.
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Date Taken:

09.2011

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Oct. 5, 2011, 7:34 p.m.

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COOLPIX P100

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59.9mm

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ISO160

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