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American Golden-Plover
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Pluvialis dominica
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Nome, and the arctic had a profound effect on me.
This is truly the last wilderness. Being a real wilderness, not a park, you see wild nature as far as the eye can see. You can walk miles and miles without seeing a fence, a sign, a road, or anything else bearing the signs of "man". Since there are no trees, you don't even see graffiti. There are people's signs carved into snowbanks, but spring comes, the snow blows, and even the graffiti disappears. The landscape is reborn, virginal, and for three short weeks, the flora and fauna are as fresh as the snow.
"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is but a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Chief Sealth of the Suquamish Indians, 1854. |
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Focal length: 400 mm
fStop: 9
ISO: 800
Shutter Speed: 1/1000
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Nome, AK
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Jun 6, 2006
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