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This pink flower in New York's Botanical Garden looked almost like a painting.

A Chinese toddler plays with a giant fan

The animals of the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland enhance its beauty.

The setting sun gleams off the Yangtze River through the fog.

An old American man smiles down at a Chinese boy who just got his first candy

Splash of Color

Created 100% in the camera using natural lighting with no filters of any kind. I used the surounding colors and focused on the Pansy flower and threw everything out of focus creatin

This statue of a lion guards the entrance to China's Forbidden Palace.

This red rose was captured at Powerscourt Gardens in Ireland.

A brilliant red flower in New York's Botanical Garden

Orange poppies at Powerscourt Gardens in Ireland

Pennsylvania's Nocturnal Whitetail Buck

After standing in cover for hours, I was able to capture this magnificent buck walking in front of me in the dark using an on camera flash.

Rooftops of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing

Beautiful Chinese women display their dance costumes

Winter Season 2009, Back Lawn, View

Photographed from my back lawn in Connellsville Pennsylvania. Winter season of 2009 was an all time record breaking month for snow fall in February 2010, with a

Celebrating the fourth of July on the bay in Newport, Oregon

Statue by a sharp curve in the road on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula

a testament of time

A dew-covered red flower at Birr Castle, Ireland

desert bull in the great expanse

A brilliant Vermont day on the lake.

Boy flying a kite.

8th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Rooftops of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing

Rooftops of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing

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© Shannon Cooley.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

07.2008

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March 26, 2010, 3:23 p.m.

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COOLPIX L12

Focal Length:

17.1mm

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1/272

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f4.7

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ISO50

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