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Photography

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sun Mar 10, 2013, 11:53 AM Mar 2013

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Vote in the Smithsonian's Photo Contest Finals ? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 OP

baby owl Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2013 #1

I'm a sucker for a great portrait, and pretty women. alfredo Mar 2013 #2

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1. baby owl

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 11:56 AM

Mar 2013

This image was captured with a Nikon D90 during a photo shoot at a local bird enthusiast’s home. “I was aiming to do a traditional studio portrait of an unusual studio subject,” the photographer says.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/10th-annual/10th-Annual-Photo-Contest-Finalists-Natural-World-194333591.html#ixzz2N9YXEoNC
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2. I'm a sucker for a great portrait, and pretty women.

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 02:51 PM

Mar 2013

(42,770 posts)

3. yes. reminds me a little bit of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. It was hard

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 05:10 PM

Mar 2013

to know which to vote for. This really speaks to me.

Alternating Rice Plots in the Bacson Valley
Photo by Hai Thinh Hoang (Hanoi, Vietnam). Photographed in Bac Son, Lang Son, Vietnam, July 15, 2012.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/10th-annual/10th-Annual-Photo-Contest-Finalists-Travel-194333031.html#ixzz2NAoDrr39
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