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Walking on a farm in the country.

Buddhist worhsipper in Tibet

Glacier Bay Alaska from ship on my husbands birthday

Big Ben behind a phone booth

Abandoned Rake in Field

Joachin, Lookin' for bugs.

Ruins of a house over the Atlantic Ocean on the Dingle Peninsula - Ireland.

A tractor is seen on a farm in the country.

Looking down Michigan Avenue in Downtown Detroit through the lens of my camera on a hot late summer day in September 2011...

plains of Qinghai

From the southern banks of Ometepe, I captured this fisherman making his long trip home on Lake Nicaragua in the setting sun. The rhythmic splashing of the oars and a distant dog's bark were the only

A red old car located in a narrow street, with an old warm color tone.

must've gotten the green light

Sundown is seen while I was walking through the forrest.

Flowers in the Garden!

Off of a back road, over a cobblestone bridge, through a rusty gate to a sheep field and into another world. You could actually sense the memory of what once was in this place...

At a bathing ghat in Calcutta

a loose array of languages and writing systems overlap in the contact zone

Pika Standing Guard
While hiking in the Cascade mts of Washington State I came upon this Pika standing Guard.

Blue Headed Tree Agama

This Anna's Hummingbird was a 1st State Record
for Delaware in 2012. It was "visited" by many. It was trying to catch an insect in this photo.

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

From the southern banks of Ometepe, I captured this fisherman making his long trip home on Lake Nicaragua in the setting sun. The rhythmic splashing of the oars and a distant dog's bark were the only

From the southern banks of Ometepe, I captured this fisherman making his long trip home on Lake Nicaragua in the setting sun. The rhythmic splashing of the oars and a distant dog's bark were the only sounds to be heard.

TAGS: Nicaragua

Richard Ambrose

Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Member since 2014

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© Richard Ambrose.
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10.2010

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Nov. 29, 2012, 1:36 p.m.

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SONY

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DSC-W150

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25mm

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1/400

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PHOTO LOCATION Nicaragua