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A boy and a bird downtown San Antonio

Art is a legalized form of insanity, and I do it very well." --Stanley Marsh 3, about his 'Cadillac Ranch'

This is the Emily Morgan Hotel. She's one of the most widely recognized hotel landmarks in San Antonio, Texas. She is named after Emily D. West, or the "Yellow Rose of Texas", and many believe that sh

Spinning a web in Missouri

"The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly..." --Oliver Evans, 1800

While chaperoning a group of Student Ambassadors to China, this young lady exhibits what exactly an Ambassador means. She spoke no Chinese, and didn't need to say a word to show friendship.

These men were playing Mahjong in a hutong of Beijing. I love how the one man has his popsicle in his mouth.

I found this lock on a door of the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, China. It literally is forbidden!

"The coming storm." This is the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles, and the clouds to me represent the coming storm that greeted Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before their executions.

A clerk at a Brooklyn grocery store.

Milkweed Seed Puffs

watching others waiting to be noticed

The great space race

This bumblebee was filling up on nectar while collecting pollen on a flower in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles.

Wandering stars in the Museum of Natural History.

Teenage boys, growing up slowly.

Subways are so beautiful everywhere I go.

Boats for punting on the River Cherwell, England.

The end of a summer.

8th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

"The coming storm." This is the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles, and the clouds to me represent the coming storm that greeted Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before their executions.

"The coming storm." This is the courtyard of the Palace of Versailles, and the clouds to me represent the coming storm that greeted Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before their executions.

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© Davis Hotard.
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07.2010

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Oct. 22, 2010, 1:39 a.m.

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SONY

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DSLR-A100

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10mm

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1/125

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f11

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ISO100

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