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  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA. The Lompoc Valley is said to have the most consistent temperate climate in the world, which is a critical factor in the cultivation of flowers.  The valley has been a flower seed-producing region for nearly 100 years. In the early 1980's, Lompoc Valley was producing one-third of the world's flower seeds.  Lompoc is a 12-mile-long, and 3-mile-wide valley, which lies just inland from the coast of California, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. There are 1600 acres of 600 varieties of flowers from which they harvest approximately 400 tons of seeds each year. Crop dusting of flower fields (spraying pesticides).
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  • A worker emasculates blossoms in the Zaiger's greenhouse. Flower petals and buds are removed to leave the pistol exposed, which is then hand-pollinated with brushes or cotton swabs. Blossoms are collected by hand from specific trees in the orchards and pollen is extracted from them by cutting the flower up with small scissors and sifting the parts. The pollen goes into a small plastic bottle that is numbered and stored in ice chests. Many trees are grown in barrels that are moved into the greenhouse to be worked on or to speed up or slow down pollination and development..Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Mark Tilden's robot: the analog nervous net- "Unibug 1.0" walking on the great Sand Dunes National Monument  in Colorado. Amazingly, the autonomous robot walked up to the flower and stopped exactly with it's antenna in the center of the flower which had just bloomed after a recent rain. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • An aerial view of flower beds in Lompoc, California.
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  • Rows of flower plants grown for seed in Gilroy, California.
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  • A helicopter sprays flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel taking a meter reading of the light in the middle of fields of flowers. In Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • A tractor cultivating rows of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of fields of flowers grown for seed in Lompoc, California. Today, some of the fields in Lompoc have been converted to wine grape production.
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  • Flowering cactus near San Javier del Bac Mission graveyard just before an afternoon thunderstorm. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Cactus flowers in a garden in Napa, California.
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  • A cow stands on a hill overlooking a windmill and fields of flowers in Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of fields of flowers grown for seed in Lompoc, California. Today, some of the fields in Lompoc have been converted to wine grape production.
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  • Flowering cactus near San Javier del Bac Mission graveyard just before an afternoon thunderstorm. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of fields of flowers grown for seed in Lompoc, California. Today, some of the fields in Lompoc have been converted to wine grape production.
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  • Young girls who are wedding guests sit in the Talar Yazd Restaurant in the city of Yazd, Iran.
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  • Kibet Serems' grandmother who lives near their farm by herself in a small house.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibet, who is 25 years old, cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • A woman adjusts  the wedding gown of a bride at a ceremony in the city of Yazd, Iran. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roller blader pulled by bicycles at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • A woman walks in an apartment courtyard, near the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Kibet Serems' grandmother who lives near their farm by herself in a small house.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Kibet, who is 25 years old, cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • Menzel house, napa valley, ca
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  • Golden Gate Park Conservatory. San Francisco, California.
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  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). Stone pig barn.
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  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). View from London's cottage on rainy day.
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  • Cholla cacti. Joshua Tree National Monument.
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  • Cotton, ready for harvest. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Dinner at Tamarind Restaurant, Luang Prabang, Laos. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Hilo Hawaii. Husband and wife with young daughter at the Hula festival.
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  • Fans invited off a street in Tokyo's Harajuku area to meet Pino pose with the popular robot. Pino, short for Pinocchio (after the fabled wooden puppet that becomes a human boy), is a full-bodied, child-sized, humanoid robot. Even before it demonstrates the ability of a wide range of bipedal movements it already has a national following in Japan after the release of a music video called "Can You Keep a Secret" in which the robot stars alongside one of Japan's most popular recording artists, Hikaru Utada. It has elevated Tatsuya Matsui, the artist who created the robot design, to celebrity status and provoked murmurs of dissent by some in the robotics community who see the robot as a commercial entity rather than a serious research project. Interestingly, the robot project is part of a large ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. Project creator Hiraoki Kitano  believes that the aesthetics of a robot are important in order for it to be accepted by humans into their living space. At the Kitano Symbiotic Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Golden Gate Park, Conservatory. San Francisco, California. USA
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  • "Weekend getaway" Red Jeep on northern California coast road in Sonoma County. Marin Headlands, Marin County.
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  • Red Jeep on northern California coast road in Marin County. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). Vineyards and forest in the rain.
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  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). Vineyards adjacent to park (seen from park on a rainy day).
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  • Jack London State Historical Park, in Glen Ellen, California (Sonoma County). London's cottage on rainy day.
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  • Conservatory in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA.
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  • A traditional Victorian home in Ferndale, California (near Arcata and Eureka, northern California.). In the late 1800s, during the Victorian architectural period, Ferndale blossomed as the agricultural center of Northern California. The prosperous dairy industry provided the economic base for Ferndale, and the blend of agriculture and architecture resulted in the town's splendidly ornate buildings, known as 'Butterfat Palaces.'
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  • Northern California Coast: Shelter Cove (Lost Coast) in Humboldt County. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Hybrid fruit tree blossoms in Floyd Zaiger's greenhouse. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. A fruit tree in bloom. 1983.
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  • Ironhorse Vineyards, Sebastapol, California producers of sparkling and still wines.  CEO Joy Sterling and winemaker Forrest Taucer. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Main St. Flushing, Queens, New York. USA..
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  • La Boca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Barrel Cactus at Gates Pass near Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • View from Hotel Bella Vista overlooking San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • Pherin Pharmaceutical in Mountain View, California. Dr. David Berliner at home with his wife Martha (also an medical doctor). MODEL RELEASED (2002)
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  • Kibet Serem, pours morning tea for his father and guests.  (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  At age 25, he cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it.
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  • Prairie sunflower, Helianthus petiolaris, designed by nature. Unibug 1.0, designed by Mark Tilden. Although built of simple, off-the-shelf components, it can walk easily on a remarkable variety of surfaces, striding from a film of shallow water into deep sand without stumbling. Seen here striding over a sand dune at Great Sand Dunes National Monument in south central Colorado. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 240.
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  • Mark Tilden's robot: the analog nervous net- "Unibug 1.0" walking great Sand Dunes National Monument  in Colorado. MODEL RELEASED
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • "Weekend getaway". Red Jeep on northern California coast road in Marin County. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fans invited off a street in Tokyo's Harajuku area to meet Pino pose with the popular robot. Pino, short for Pinocchio (after the fabled wooden puppet that becomes a human boy), is a full bodied, child-sized, humanoid robot. Even before it demonstrates the ability of a wide range of bipedal movements it already has a national following in Japan after the release of a music video called "Can You Keep a Secret" in which the robot stars alongside one of Japan's most popular recording artists, Hikaru Utada. It has elevated Tatsuya Matsui, the artist who created the robot design (seated at left), to celebrity status. Interestingly, the robot project is part of a large ERATO grant from the Japan Science and Technology Corporation, a branch of the Science and Technology Agency of the Japanese government. Project creator Hiraoki Kitano (standing with arms crossed) believes that the aesthetics of a robot are important in order for it to be accepted by humans into their living space. At the Kitano Symbiotic Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • Floyd Zaiger, with two women workers on ladders, emasculate blossoms in the Zaiger's greenhouse. Flower petals and buds are removed to leave the pistol exposed, which is then hand-pollinated with brushes or cotton swabs. Blossoms are collected by hand from specific trees in the orchards and pollen is extracted from them by cutting the flower up with small scissors and sifting the parts. The pollen goes into a small plastic bottle that is numbered and stored in ice chests. Many trees are grown in barrels that are moved into the greenhouse to be worked on or to speed up or slow down pollination and development. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Picking saffron crocus flowers growing in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Freshly picked saffron crocus flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Freshly picked saffron crocus flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Two women removing the stigmas from Freshly picked saffron flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Picking saffron crocus flowers growing in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Saffron crocus flowers growing in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Old women removing the stigmas from Freshly picked saffron flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Two women removing the stigmas from Freshly picked saffron flowers in Consuegra, La Mancha, Spain. Saffron has been the world's most expensive spice by weight for decades. The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels. These are separated from the petals by hand and dried to make saffron spice.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Irrigation: flood irrigation of flower fields grown for seed in Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Flower offering to the Christ of life in Masanassa, Valencia, Spain.
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  • Flower vendor in public market in Mysore, South India.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland. Flower, wreath sellers.
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  • One of Floyd Zaiger's mature orchards of flowering fruit trees. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Fruit trees in bloom - 1988.
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  • Clock in a public garden with landscaped flowers. Vina del Mar, Chile..
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • House with hundreds of flowers in front, Berceo, Rioja, Spain.
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  • Street scene with steps and flowers in Rivello, Italy, on the Basilicata Coast.
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  • Hollyhock flowers and blue shuttered window on old stone house in Talmont, on the Atlantic Coast near Royan, France.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day. Nun and woman carrying flowers blurred in motion, created by panning. Nun run.
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  • A man takes a shortcut through a field carrying flowers to the cemetery on All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland.
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  • Lodz, Poland. Muslim cemetery on All Saints Day. Carina Sahek puts flowers on relatives' graves.
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  • Hand pollinating geranium flowers in a greenhouse: Lompoc, California. USA.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of flowers grown for seed with pesticides.
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  • Crop dusting. Lompoc, California, USA. Spraying fields of marigold flowers grown for seeds with pesticides.
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  • A country road with red flowers leading down to Segovia, Spain.
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  • Cattle in pasture with flowers near Segovia, Spain.
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  • A fountain surrounded by flowers in the cloisters of the gothic cathedral in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Flowers for sale outside Brawn's florist shop on Grafton Street Dublin, Ireland.
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  • Young girl with bouquet of flowers in the cemetery on the Day of the Dead, in Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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