Amazing picture thread

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Cloud over Klyuchevskaya Sopka Mountain, Russia

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Blue Dragon River

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Volcano summit, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

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Harpy Eagle, largest eagle in the world.

This one comes with a story: The guy in the pic is the rehab/keeper and posted on fb that someone shot the bird in the wild before it could fly. The bullet took out one eye and severed the optic nerve in the other, leaving it completely blind and facing death by starvation. The rehab stepped in and raised it from chick to adulthood. Now it is in a breeding program where young birds will be released to protected areas. Those things around its ankles are jesses, not chains, to prevent the bird from harming itself if it tries to fly or run into things. It is well fed and cared for, living in a huge open area with fresh air and sunshine, and lots of female company.

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owl camo

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Doesn't do justice to the perspective at the bottom of the Khufu Pyramid looking up, but gives an idea of what you're up against.

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Belgium Sart Canal Bridge, 498m long and 46m wide, cost 29m euro.

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Solar eclipse over the Arctic.

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Python burnt alive in forest fire, wouldn't leave her eggs.

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pouring wood

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Underside of a lily pad.

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The calm before the storm.

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Bow Lake, Banff NP.

Is it upside down?

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The claw of a juvenile Crowned Eagle.

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Hang in there!

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Mount Fuji

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Iceland

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This book contains every colour visible to the human eye.

I suppose much like the standard computer colour menu.

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Jupiter and four of its 60+ moons emerge from behind the Moon in this amazing close-up.

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Rio

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Icelandic Highlands

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You are entering Death Valley...drive safely!

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Meteor shower with Milky Way backdrop

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An Eclipse and Sunset, together