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Moving into the SUN

They are the very special abandoned kids in my hometown. Words can't say what i felt when i was them. We was trying to share something with them by going there and cook the a good meal. There are abou

Bridge over the Mississippi

Tourists visiting the Dubai Mall are
looking up at the sky. To get the full view of
the tallest building in the world, The Burj Khalifa.

This is the local tribe in Bromo Mount. He was trying to looking for customers to earn money by his horse.

Very tranquil , scenic and peaceful place with one of several waterfalls inside the Erawan national park, in Thailand .

footprints on the California coast, a popular tourist spot. This picture represents America and all the paths that are crossed there.

A woman going home after fishing on kholpatua river gabura,shatkhira,Bangladesh.Specially womans & childrens fishes a lot on rivers while man does it inside the sunderban (the largest mangrove forest

A train approaching the famous Bridge on the River Kwae , in the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Tourists stand on the pedestrian platform to get a glimpse of the train and make pictures.

A man tests a rumor that if vigorously shaken during autumn's peak, the leaves of a ginkgo biloba tree will fall off all at once.

A famous Hindu shrine in the town of Kandy ,
in Sri Lanka. People of all faiths stop and pray to the Hindu God Muruga , before they start the day of work and activity.Picture of the entrance gate tak

Playground in the Era of the Playstaion

Captured this when i was returning back to Bromo mountain from the Bromo volcano to view the sunrise...It was beautiful and there were a lot of local people with their horses trying to pick us to earn

Hindu ritual.
pilgrims are offering prayers to loard Siva during Gazan festivel.

Many clustered figurines depicting the Hindu Mythology ,on the tower Gopura- of the entrance gate
Of the Shiva temple , in Tamil nadu.

Now shafiqul works as a caretaker in a shrimp farm at harinagar,shatkhira who was attacked by tigers in sunderban(the largest mangrove forest of the world) two years ago while he was fishing there. Th

Very intricate and beautiful architecture of the
Temple for the Hindu God Shiva built by the Khmer Kings . This temple on an extinct volcano is in the village of Phanom Rung in North East Thailand.

Detail of a wall-mounted light in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

Founded in the 1890's, Ryan Ranch, located in Joshua Tree National Park and part of the National Register of Historic Places, became the most successful mine in the area, representative of an entire e

9th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A train approaching the famous Bridge on the River Kwae , in the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Tourists stand on the pedestrian platform to get a glimpse of the train and make pictures.

A train approaching the famous Bridge on the River Kwae , in the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Tourists stand on the pedestrian platform to get a glimpse of the train and make pictures.

Kaliannan Shanmugasundaram

Oakville, Canada

Member since 2014

Photo Information

Copyright:

© Kaliannan Shanmugasundaram.
All rights reserved.

Image Source:

digital

Date Taken:

06.2010

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Date Uploaded:

Nov. 30, 2011, 2:33 a.m.

Camera Make:

Panasonic

Camera Model:

DMC-FZ20

Focal Length:

43.1mm

Shutter Speed:

1/200

Aperture:

f4

ISO:

ISO100

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