[艺术摄影][国家地理]精美图片 （四十八）

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　　—From the National Geographic magazine Collector’s Edition Volume 4: Swimsuits, 2003

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　1302. Drying in the hot Mediterranean sun and much desired by this curious cat, these fish represent a fisherman‘s lucrative harvest.
　　桭rom "Santorini: Greece‘s Sensuous Daughter of Cataclysm," September/October 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine
　　

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1303. "Fighting his way past a waterfall, [caver] John Lane pulls out of a cave in Gunung Buda, or White Mountain, in Borneo‘s Sarawak rain forest."
　　—From "Searching the Depths of Borneo‘s White Mountain," September 1998, National Geographic magazine
　　
　　

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1304. "Muffled in afternoon fog, Yosemite Valley‘s Bridalveil Fall drops 620 feet [188 meters] to delight spectators. A fast-moving stream flowing seaward down the uplifted Sierra block first carved the valley into a V shape. Frost and glaciers, the great sculptors of Yosemite in ice ages past, later sheared off this granite cliff face, leaving the stream above nowhere to go but straight down, as a graceful veil of water."
　　桭rom the National Geographic book Range of Light: The Sierra Nevada, 1999
　　
　　

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1305. "Splendor of the past endures in an Egyptian pyramid. Camels have provided desert transport in parts of Africa and Asia since ancient times."
　　
　　From the National Geographic book Exploring Your World: The Adventure of Geography, 1989

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　1306. "After four nights in Finland and no northern lights, [photographer Diane] Cook spotted what she first thought were ‘dancing clouds.‘ She and photographer Len Jenshel shot a light show that lasted 30 minutes. ‘We experienced magic,‘ says Jenshel."
　　—From "The Culture of Cool," October 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine
　　

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　1307. Each year hundreds of pumpkins make their way to Delaware, where they are used as ammunition in the annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin. Competitors attempt to "chunk" a pumpkin as far as they can using homemade air-powered machines, centrifugal equipment, and even old-fashioned catapults. The longest throw in 2003 measured 4,434.28 feet (1,351 meters).
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Gift of Gardening," May 1992, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1308. An estimated 41 million children in the United States will don costumes and go door-to-door on Halloween 2004. The celebration of Halloween was generally banned in colonial times. The practice gradually became more acceptable in the 1800s, as elements of Halloween were incorporated into harvest festivals, and as waves of new immigrants brought their Halloween customs to the U.S.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Broadway, Street of Dreams," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1309. "The inscription on a skull at St. Anne‘s monastic community records the death of a Father Gregentios in 1979."
　　—From "The Byzantine Empire: Rome of the East," December 1983, National Geographic magazine
　　

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　1310. The Alaska Range stretches from Canada‘s Yukon border in the east to the base of the Aleutian Range in the west.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Biking Across the Alaskan Range," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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