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We were waiting 6 hours to catch a flight out of the Punta Arenas airport. I saw the brightest red in a sunrise ever and bolted. Outside the airport, there was this expansive field where I took this s

The megapolis Mumbai (India) comes alive at dusk glittering like a fairy-land.

See but cant be seen

Dark future or colored outside

Visiting Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic.

This leopard seal was toying with me! It was swimming around our boat never stopping long enough for me to capture a shot. I was running myself ragged when finally! I love the composition and the way

shadow on the ice...

Ah,the last leaves for desert

MAHA KUMBH-2013--MAHA KUMBH AT NIGHT AT ALLAHABAD,UTTAR PRODESH,INDIA.

Climbed a mountain in Uchisare Kalesi and decided to look over the edge

Campesino Collage

Family trip, where we went to Constanza, and stayed in a hotel with the same name of the town, the view in the morning was beautiful, beyond what
the camera could catch.

We came upon this beautiful iceberg with all these penguins on it trying to get away from the looming metal ship. What really got me was this shot, the light and dark aspects really complementing each

Cowgirl barrel racing at rodeo

When I got home that day and looked through my shots, I was pleasantly surprised to notice that with all the movement going on, that moment seemed to stand still for the couple kissing.

Mirror mirror !

Underground prayers of Lalibela, Ethiopia.
During Ethiopian Christmas, pilgrims from the whole country flock to the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, the holiest place of Ethiopian Christian mysticism.

The Salad Bar is Open - playing with the green sea turtles of the shallow Galapagosian shoreline. Punta Vicente Roca, Isla Isabella, Galapagos (Ecuador).

The Milky Way shines over the ruins of the 1947 Pontotoc, Texas fire.

After a long hike to the top of Deception Island we were greeted with one of the largest chinstrap penguin colonies. They stretched so far they blended with the snow in the horizon. What a wonderful s

koll the sheep to use it but it had a small in sheep in his stomach

11th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Family trip, where we went to Constanza, and stayed in a hotel with the same name of the town, the view in the morning was beautiful, beyond what the camera could catch.

Family trip, where we went to Constanza, and stayed in a hotel with the same name of the town, the view in the morning was beautiful, beyond what the camera could catch.

Marleny Polanco

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Member since 2014

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© Marleny Polanco.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

01.2013

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Nov. 27, 2013, 1:16 p.m.

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KODAK EASYSHARE M863 DIGITAL CAMERA

Focal Length:

17.1mm

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1/151

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f5.1

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