Zebras, Kenya
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November 07, 2012 at 10:30AM
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I was lucky enough to see these two fighting zebras while crossing the Masai Mara in Kenya. We stopped our vehicle and watched as the two zebras bit, kicked, and otherwise pestered each other. The two crossed our path and then started kicking violently. I followed the pair and was able to capture this moment just before they split up and went their separate ways.
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Penguins, Antarctica
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November 06, 2012 at 10:30AM
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Penguins adrift on an iceberg during a heavy snowstorm in Antarctica
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Kocatepe Mosque, Turkey
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November 05, 2012 at 10:30AM
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Kocatepe Mosque, one of the largest in the world (holding up to 24,000 worshippers), is a modern building completed in 1987. I had been given permission to wander around and take photos during the service, although I only got up to the top balcony after it had finished and most people had gone.
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African Elephant and Queleas
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November 04, 2012 at 09:30AM
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A flock of red-billed queleas coming to drink at the same time as an African elephant
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Water Patterns
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November 03, 2012 at 09:30AM
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In a world of a million water pictures, it's easy to dismiss this as "just another reflection shot." Still, this unedited image proves how unreal water can behave under certain circumstances.
Here I stand at the narrowest point of a small lake, and as usual I have thrown objects into the water to see how it behaves visually. Because the lake was so narrow, only a few meters, the circles started to recoil from land. The effect is called, to my knowledge, interference, but I have yet to see anything similar, even after all these years of throwing rocks into the water.
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Night Workers, Japan
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November 02, 2012 at 09:30AM
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Night workers prepare to board a ferry in the Japanese port of Aomori. It feels sort of ominous, as if the workers are waiting for something to emerge from the depths of the boat.
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Tern Chick, Sri Lanka
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November 01, 2012 at 09:30AM
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The progeny, a solitary chick amidst the adult great crested terns, taken from a prone position with a wide-angle lens at a breeding site on a Sri Lankan island in northwestern seas.
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