Ever wondered what fireworks would look like in reverse? New Year's Eve Fireworks at Docklands, Melbourne 2012. 2012 Playlist: http://youtu.be/_3Ec8w1BJBA Official Website/Blog: http://www.juliantay.com/happy-new-year-2013/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurnMyBread MUSIC: "Moon Behind the Tree" by Serphonic http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a52757/sounds-of-my-life
Simple idea, really, but wow, awesome.
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Music: A1 by Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm http://missingozu.tumblr.com https://twitter.com/kogonada
We've featured kogonada's supercuts before: Kubrick's One Point Perspective and the Sounds of Aronovsky.
From kogonada:
"The films of Ozu are filled with people walking through alleys and hallways: the in-between spaces of modern life. This is where Ozu resides. In the transitory. It’s what he values as a filmmaker. Alleys are not an opportunity for suspense but for passage.
*Passageways is made up of Ozu’s final six films: Equinox Flower (Higanbana), Good Morning (Ohayo), Floating Weeds (Ukigusa), Late Autumn (Akibiyori), The End of Summer (Kohayagawa-ke no aki), and An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)"
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In no particular order, here are the 5 most astounding timelapses we've featured.
vk.com/arixonix (c) Vitaly Karpovich http://vk.com/framearixonix Canon 600D Canon 18-55 mm 3.5-5.6 IS Canon 50 mm 1.4 USM Sigma 10-20 mm 4-5.6 music: Linkin Park - Lost In The Echo (Enmary Remix) http://vk.com/kondrashov09 p.s. sorry for the muddy matrix and poor quality
This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses. Project Yosemite Website: http://projectyose.com Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/projectyose Twitter: twitter.com/projectyose Contact info: info@projectyose.com Thanks to Dynamic Perception for their motion controlled dolly and continued support! Purchase gear used in this video here: http://www.dynamicperception.com/#oid=1004_1 Dynamic Perception Website: http://dynamicperception.com Track: Outro Album: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Artist: M83 Site: http://ilovem83.com Publishing: http://emimusicpub.com Licensing: http://bankrobbermusic.com This whole project has been an amazing experience. The two of us became friends through Vimeo and explored a shared interest in timelapsing Yosemite National Park over an extended period of time. We'd like to expand this idea to other locations and would appreciate any suggestions for a future project. Project Yosemite was featured as a main story on Yosemite National Park's Spring Newsletter.: http://www.yosemitepark.com/timelapse-sprnews-2012.aspx To view this in 2K, visit: http://youtu.be/OwFbjJasW3E Be sure to change the quality settings to 'Original'. Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/SheldonNeill https://twitter.com/#!/delehanty Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sheldon.neill http://www.facebook.com/delehanty Behind The Scenes: http://vimeo.com/35223326 By Dalton Runberg Our hearts go out to the families of Markus Praxmarer who lost his life while climbing Half Dome on September 19th, 2011 and Ranger Ryan Hiller, who was crushed by a tree January 22nd 2012. They will be missed. (A photo of Ranger Ryan Hiller can be found to the right, above the statistics counter)
Time of Rio is a taste of our project about Rio de Janeiro, nature, city and life. Produced using different image production techniques, like slow motion sequences, Time Lapse, Hyper Lapse, Rails and Motion Controllers. Captured along the last months is the beginning of our first movie. Edited in Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Music "Oh Wee" by Immortal Beats and "Whispering Through" by Asura Thanks for everyone that help us specially our wives for the patience! Contact us for footage license or request your production. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov Time of Rio é uma breve amostra do nosso projeto sobre o Rio de Janeiro, a cidade, sua natureza e vida. Produzido com diferentes técnicas de captura de imagem, como seqüências de slow motion, time lapse, hyper lapse, trilhos e controladores de movimento. Capturados ao longo dos últimos meses é o início de nosso primeiro filme. Editado em Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Música "Oh Wee" por Immortal Beats e "Whispering Through" por Asura Obrigado por todos que nos ajudaram e especialmente nossas esposas pelo apoio e paciência! Entre em contato para licenciamento de imagens ou solicitar algo especial para sua produção. Siga-nos no Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov
So this is what I did over this past winter when I was not making people coffee. It's all time-lapse footage shot in and around Anchorage, Alaska, with the emphasis on the nature around the city rather then on the people and buildings. This is a collection of the nicer stuff I shot of the northern lights, stars, sunset, and the tide. All of this was shot between October 2011 and April 2012. The music is Aston's Classical Cover of the song You've Got The Love by Florence & The Machine. http://www.youtube.com/astonmusic Music used with the bands permission. : ) Equipment used: Canon 5D Mark II Canon Rebel xTi (modified to full spectrum) Canon EF 24 - 105 mm Sigma DC 18 - 200 mm Sigma 8mm EX DG Fisheye (a thoroughly epic lens) Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly (kinda beyond epic) Orion TeleTrack AZ-G Mount (really good for astrophotography) Motorcycle and Car batteries from my locale battery store And a lot of wires that connect everything together. Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5 Adobe Photoshop CS4 Adobe Lightroom 3 LRTimelapse (pretty much the most amazing software ever) Hugin (for unwrapping the 8mm shots) Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 (for making the stills move) (Please note that the colours look different (like a lot) on different screens. The colours here look desaturated from the original file on my screen. But the colours look like the original on other screens, but not all, I'm not sure why.)
This film was shot mainly around the Tromvik area of Northern Norway at approximately 70 degrees North. Tromvik is located right in the heart of the aurora belt and because of this even quiet displays of the Aurora Borealis will always be visible overhead on clear nights. I was very lucky in the time that I visited in that a CME (coronal mass ejection) from the sun hit on the first night I arrived. The earths magnetic field reverberated for the entire week that I was there and I was lucky to witness strong displays every night. The Aurora Borealis is the most beautiful natural phenomenon I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. I love astronomy, and for me there is nothing more tranquil that watching our own galaxy rise but the Northern lights was quite a different experience, one that was in some ways even more humbling. I was fascinated with how the aurora changed so quickly, from rolling like a never ending curtain of soft light stretching, weaving and contorting itself across the Arctic sky, to sharp fingers of green and red piercing the black to its own percussive rhythm. A friend of mine spoke to a native Norwegian shortly before I embarked on this trip and he told him that Norway "is good for the soul" And after visiting I could not agree more. All footage Copyright © 2012 Nicholas Buer All Rights Reserved Music composed by Fieldscarecrow: http://soundcloud.com/fieldscarecrow Motion control Dynamic Perception Stage Zero: http://dynamicperception.com/
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In no particular order, the 5 most amazing photo posts of 2012.
Award-winning photographer Tim Flach brings a portraiture eye and intention to animal photos. Just amazing.
Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
Tiltshift does this interesting thing where it both removes a lot of the distance between you and the subject and distorts it past recognition.
Russian biologist Alexander Semenov amazing images.
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Not in any particular order, the 5 most beautiful posts we've made this year.
Harvard PhD student Alex Parker use the top 100 images from the Hubble telescope and a mosaic-making program to make this stunning version of Van Gogh’s masterpiece.
On Body Forms: Photos by Klaus Kampert
SAMSARA is in theaters now in the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, and more. FULL THEATER INFO HERE: http://www.barakasamsara.com/theaters ABOUT SAMSARA: Prepare yourself for an unparalleled sensory experience. SAMSARA reunites director Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson, whose award-winning films BARAKA and CHRONOS were acclaimed for combining visual and musical artistry. SAMSARA is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, SAMSARA transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music that infuses the ancient with the modern. Expanding on the themes they developed in BARAKA (1992) and CHRONOS (1985), SAMSARA explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of man’s spirituality and the human experience. Neither a traditional documentary nor a travelogue, SAMSARA takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation. Through powerful images, the film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.
Director and cinematographer Ron Ficke (Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka) has been hard at work on Samsara for 5 years. The entire film is shot in stunning 70mm. It is a film that relies completely on its visual impact and cinematographic juxtaposition, as there isn't any dialogue.
A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. www.plymouth.ac.uk Subtitles available here: http://goo.gl/iuaKY A film by Danny Cooke www.dannycooke.co.uk Soundtrack by Tony Higgins www.tonyhiggins.org (Available to download here: http://goo.gl/exGL1) Follow us on twitter @dannycooke @junior85
Beautifully shot short film on the letterpress.
via The Atlantic Master Feed:
"In Ascendance, nature photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee documents the Perseid meteor shower at its peak in August, before a backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. It's worth watching the video full screen to appreciate the crisp cinematography and magical details -- rainbows, stars, and more. "
Play full screen so you can count the meteors! Shot in Joshua Tree National Park and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest during the Perseid meteor shower. Features ancient trees, lightning, rainbows, meteors, the Milky Way, and lots of stars. Enjoy! Download the soundtrack for free, courtesy of Justin Durbin: http://www.edgenmusic.com/edgen_fields_of_honor.mp3 Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/evosiastudios Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evosia Website: www.evosiastudios.com Music is Fields of Honor by Justin R. Durban, www.justindurban.com Ascendance is a tribute to nature's unpredictable power and beauty. I went out to film the Perseid meteor shower but I encountered so much more. When you are out there, you never know for sure what nature will bring. Always be ready for a magical experience. :) Film is shot, directed and edited by Henry Jun Wah Lee Available in 4K Henry is a Kessler sponsored shooter. http://www.kessleru.com
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I've been in Shanghai for almost 4 years, during which I enjoyed a 3-year timelapse experience. The scenes from Shanghai's every corner almost certainly formed the main clips of my timelapse work. In Shanghai, usually I did timelapse whenever and wherever possible, no matter working or being on holiday, waking or sleeping (coz sometimes I left my camera working on the roof for the sunrise: P). Thus, I got tons of timelapse clips about this city. I never knew when I could make something from what I had gotten, until one day my friend LT came to me, talking about making a black-and-white Shanghai timelapse. It was really a cool idea to me. Soon I started coloring a couple of clips into BW just to get a little bit feeling. Later, it was a New York timelapse I saw before that gave me the inspiration of the music - deep male vocal, slight electronic, and storytelling. "The Books", which came to my mind, undoubtedly was a optimal match to my crossed line mood. I kept listening to their music until I found "Thirty Incoming". ... That is the whole preparation about this short. Producer: Luo Tong www.lpfilms.net Director, Cameraman, Editor: Liu Jia www.Jiavision.net Music: Thirty Incoming - The Books http://www.thebooksmusic.com/ Additional footage from Joe Nafis Opening picture from: Kevin Gu, Zokki Zhang, Lin Hang, Paul Shubsky, Liu Jia Equipment: Canon 5DMKII, Canon 550D, Canon Powershot A630 16-35mm/2.8, 24-105mm/4, 10-22mm, 18-135mm Edited with Final Cut Pro, graded with Colorista II and Nattress.
Awesome looking timelapse exploration of one of the world's most vibrant cities.
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This beautiful and challenging color matching game is a great deal of fun.
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Beijing-based photographer and performance artist Li Wei creates these gravity-defying photographs with only the use of balance and invisible props. Mad props.
From The Inertia.
Founder Zach Weisberg explains what The Inertia is all about -- its heritage and its future. Check out the planet's largest network of thinking surfers at http://www.theinertia.com
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Surfing has such a place in our national imagination, and rightly so, if you ask me. It is addictive and simple. It is relaxing and exciting. It is showy and low-key.
With that in mind, we've asked our surfer-cum-writer friend, Ashton Goggans to pick 5 things to get anyone aspiring to a wet life.
Art work by Shinichi Maruyama Composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi
Slow-speed video creates ephemeral water sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama, composited by Tetsushi Wakasugi.
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Further Up Yonder is available for download in 2K original resolution on my blog: http://wp.me/p2fVm6-bv Facebook page - Making of coming soon! https://www.facebook.com/furtherupyonder ***UPDATE / SUBTITLES*** Dutch, Latvian, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Bulgarian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and English subtitles on universalsubtitles.org bit.ly/WuZ4z2 You are welcome to add subtitles in your language, you will be credited for your help. Thanks! ***UPDATE / 100.000 Plays!*** After just a week, we reached the awesome goal of 100K plays. Thanks to everybody who shared, commented, liked and got inspired by watching Further Up Yonder. It has been an intense week, spent answering a ton of nice messages that people from all over the world sent to me. You made possible to have this video featured on blogs, forums and major media websites during this week. You helped this video crossing borders, as the astronauts asked us, reaching out to every continent. Thanks for your incredible support. Keep sharing! ***TO THE STARS!*** A timelapse message from ISS to all Humankind. - 2K version available on my blog: http://wp.me/p2fVm6-bv I wanted to use pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years. They are working to open a Gateway to Space for all humankind, but people on Earth must understand that they have to get rid of the concept of borders on our planet if they want to follow the astronauts to new worlds in outer space. While the cosmonauts speak a day passes on Earth, from dawn to sunset, until the Gateway opens with a burst of light. The ISS then gains speed, the astronauts are leaving our planet which they see spinning faster and faster, merging earth, oceans and people together, ready to follow them, Further Up Yonder. Making of As a filmmaking student, this was my first attempt to craft a timelapse video. It has been a time consuming process, but it turned out as one of my most satisfying projects. I focused my workflow on colours and harmony of movements, syncing every frame with the music and the voices of the astronauts. Every picture has been post processed individually before being imported in the NLE software, as I tried to take the most out of every image in terms of colours, contrast and neatiness. Pictures were downloaded from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center and edited with Photoshop CS6. Even if they were Hi-res images shot with Nikon D3S cameras, a lot of noise removal and color correction was needed, especially for those shots at ISO 3200, which was the highest ISO speed limit I've allowed myself to use, exception made for the last sequence of the spinning world, which comes from a sequenze of shots taken at ISO 12800. Daytime shots were taken at ISO 200. I've used Topaz Denoise 5 for noise removal, as it is very powerful and accurate when dealing with shadows and blacks. Editing was made with Adobe Premiere CS6, with a 2K workflow, which allowed me to scale, rotate and pan image sequences whose native resolution is 4K. The video was downscaled to 1280x720 resolution for Vimeo. The original 2K version is available for download on my blog (link on top of this description). Credits Images courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, downloadable for non-commerical use from http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Music: Synthetic Truth, by digitalR3public - licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 License: http://soundcloud.com/digitalr3public/synthetic-truth Audio messages courtesy of NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
Film student Giacomo Sardelli:
"Pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years."
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“Burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men in Albania society to escape the old codes that governed the tribal clans, with women as the property of their husbands, are captured in the moving portraits in the series Sworn Virgins of Albania, by photographer Jill Peters.
Peters:
I learned that the Burrnesha are well respected within their communities. They possess an indescribable amount of strength and pride, and value their family honor above all else. Their absolute transition is wholly accepted, posited and taken without question by the people among whom they live. But most surprising, is they have very few regrets for the great deal they have sacrificed.
The freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants was traditionally the exclusive province of men. Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages, often with much older men in distant villages. As an alternative, becoming a Sworn Virgin, or ‘burnesha” elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. Most importantly of all, she took a vow of celibacy to remain chaste for life. She became a “he”. This practice continues today but as modernization inches toward the small villages nestled in the Alps, this archaic tradition is increasingly seen as obsolete. Only a few aging Sworn Virgins remain.
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Time of Rio is a taste of our project about Rio de Janeiro, nature, city and life. Produced using different image production techniques, like slow motion sequences, Time Lapse, Hyper Lapse, Rails and Motion Controllers. Captured along the last months is the beginning of our first movie. Edited in Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Music "Oh Wee" by Immortal Beats and "Whispering Through" by Asura Thanks for everyone that help us specially our wives for the patience! Contact us for footage license or request your production. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov Time of Rio é uma breve amostra do nosso projeto sobre o Rio de Janeiro, a cidade, sua natureza e vida. Produzido com diferentes técnicas de captura de imagem, como seqüências de slow motion, time lapse, hyper lapse, trilhos e controladores de movimento. Capturados ao longo dos últimos meses é o início de nosso primeiro filme. Editado em Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut X. Música "Oh Wee" por Immortal Beats e "Whispering Through" por Asura Obrigado por todos que nos ajudaram e especialmente nossas esposas pelo apoio e paciência! Entre em contato para licenciamento de imagens ou solicitar algo especial para sua produção. Siga-nos no Facebook: facebook.com/imagemoov
Beautiful summery vibrant Rio de Janeiro in stunning colorful hyperlapse.
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A ShortFilm made only by TimeLapse and HyperLapse technique, focused on Xmas time in London.. I tried to catch the most beautiful decorations and events that this incredible city can offer in this time of the year.. Unfortunately due to whether conditions, i couldn't get any snow.. A special thanks to my friends and great musicians Alberto Vuolato and Paolo Giacomelli that composed the music. Here you can find the song: http://albertovuolato.bandcamp.com Photo & Editing: Mattia Bicchi Canon EOS 40D Canon 17-40mm f/4 L Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MattiaBicchiPhotography Follow on Google+: plus.google.com/107118363323046122987?hl=it Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/#!/Matt_hi WebSite: www.mattiabicchiphotography.com Press/Project/Licensing contacts: mattiabicchiphotography@gmail.com Music by :Alberto Vuolato and Paolo Giacomelli alberto@vuolato.it - paolo.giaco@gmail.com Violin Played by :Elisa Pizzicori
Gorgeous hyperlapse of London during a gorgeous time of the year.
Swedish indie rockers Shout Out Louds wanted to make a splash to introduce "Blue Ice," the first single off their upcoming Optica. The worked tiwhTBWA Stockholm, to make a kit that would make a playable record out of ice.
Listen to the real song here... http://soundcloud.com/shoutoutlouds/blue-ice Or Download here: http://www.facebook.com/Shoutoutlouds/app_172261422915404 Hello everyone! It has been a while, but things are very much beginning to melt into place. We shipped out an extremely limited number of secret boxes containing a rare sample of new music from our forthcoming album.
They sent out only 10 kits to fans and press. Fascinating idea.
Here is the full single.
Shout Out Louds "Blue Ice" from the forthcoming album "Optica" due for release in February 2013. Pre Order here... http://shoutoutlouds.com/preorder.html Download the song for free here... https://www.facebook.com/Shoutoutlouds/app_172261422915404?ref=ts Tour dates coming up in USA, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, UK and Canada. Get tickets here www.shoutoutlouds.com Video directed and animated by Johan Toorell.
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Celebrate our final night on earth. Happy Apocalypse! List of music and films used in the description. Our last night on earth; what better way to spend it than with Cinema. Avengers assembled, dark knights rose and odds were in our favor in a fantastic year in film.
For the past five years, film student Kees van Dijkhuizen Jr. has made a supercut of the year in film. This is lovely and moving. Better in fact that a lot of the films he includes.
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If there were a spectrum of the state of matter, icebergs would be about halfway between sky and stone. With a lot of the structure and scale of rock with the ephemeralness of water. These absolutely stunning images come from Nuremberg-based photographer Jan Erik Waider.
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by Walt Whitman
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Now of the older war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,
Washington stands inside the lines, he stands on the
intrench'd hills amid a crowd of officers,
His face is cold and damp, he cannot repress the
weeping drops,
He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes, the color
is blanch'd from his cheeks,
He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided
to him by their parents.
The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
He stands in the room of the old tavern, the
well-belov'd soldiers all pass through,
The officers speechless and slow draw near in their
turns,
The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses
them on the cheek,
He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he
shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
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Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner
together,
Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with
her parents on the old homestead
A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old
homestead,
On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for
rush-bottoming chairs,
Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse,
half-envelop'd her face,
Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded
exquisitely as she spoke.
My mother look'd in delight and amazement at the
stranger,
She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and
full and pliant limbs,
The more she look'd upon her she loved her,
Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and
purity,
She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the
fireplace, she cook'd food for her,
She had no work to give her, but she gave her
remembrance and fondness.
The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the
middle of the afternoon she went away,
O my mother was loth to have her go away,
All the week she thought of her, she watch'd for her
many a month,
She remember'd her many a winter and many a summer,
But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there
again.
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Boston.com's Big Picture blog, always a favorite, has collected some of their favorite nature photos of the year.
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