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© Mary Jean Burkhardt. All rights reserved.

Doumars Drive- In
Norfolk, VA

She was watching her brother and friends swim in a pond, and wanted to join in so badly, but the water was too deep. The cloud, hill, and companion dandelions captured her mood perfectly.

Layers of San Diego

Swimmers pose for a picture after enjoying a dip in the family pond.

When a few members of Westboro Baptist Church came to Norfolk Virginia (to spread their message of hate) I was able to take this photograph of one of their children.

Rowers' shoes sitting on a dock during a regatta. A boat had just docked behind the feetless shoes, and completed the picture.

Trees and sculpture at the San Diego Marina

The Jefferson Memorial during the Cherry Blossom Festival

A bedazzled Obama hat. American is so many ways.

John Rockford of the local Virginia Beach band Jetstars

Swings at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, OH.

Driving the backroads to Tennessee and came upon the Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in Kentucky

Surgeons performing a pediatric instrumented spinal fusion to help a patient with scoliosis.

Classic American Halloween decorations in Kerrytown shop window.

Cliffs of Moher, Ireland 2008 Vacation

Pure and simple joy with the first snow of the year.

Little sister helps big sister with her flowers before senior prom, an American rite of passage.

An eagle observing her while she observes him.

Silly-String war aftermath being captured by an observer. This was part of a bar mitzvah celebration.

Project Runway -- Mallards

Patriotism at a regatta.

A modern day Norman Rockweller image - a boy fishing from a dock with a can of Coke next to him.

Pelicans are so smug

8th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Driving the backroads to Tennessee and came upon the Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in Kentucky

Driving the backroads to Tennessee and came upon the Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in Kentucky

Mary Jean Burkhardt

Milton,

Member since 2014

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© Mary Jean Burkhardt.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

01.2008

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Date Uploaded:

June 5, 2010, 12:04 p.m.

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Camera Model:

Canon PowerShot S2 IS

Focal Length:

6mm

Shutter Speed:

1/640

Aperture:

f4

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