National Geographic Pictures ( Must see )

 
 
 
Big Sur, California   |1999 | Frans Lanting  
Each year more than three million visitors navigate the treacherous turns of Highway 1 and cross its soaring arch-span bridges, its narrow passes, and the unique curiosities, which artists have called 'the greatest meeting of land and water in the world
 
 

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Kastellorizon Island , Greece | 1979 | James P. Blair  
Sunlight streams into a water-filled cavern.  
 
 
 

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Krabi , Thailand | 1994 | Jodi Cobb  
Tourism has fed Thailand's economy for many years yet now casts a dark shadow on the environment. Pollution and deforestation due to commercial logging are slowly being curbed by new environmental restrictions  
 
 
 

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Sydney , Australia  | 2004  | Catherine Karnow  
"With a palm-framed view of downtown, Clark Park is typical of the small parks in North Sydney
 
 
 

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Rio Grande , Texas-Mexico border |1993 | Bruce Dale  
A tributary empties into the heavily polluted Rio Grande somewhere along its 1,250-mile (2,011-kilometer) Texas-Mexico border
 
 
 

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Grand Canal, Venice, Italy |1982 | James L. Stanfield  
"Dressed in borrowed finery, Venice wears Byzantine arches and mullioned windows along the Grand Canal."  
 
 
 

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Sequoia National Park, California   |1995 | Raymond Gehman  
Navigating a road filled with smoke from a prescribed burn can be a dangerous drive .