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1、Life in Color:Orange,A balance of playful yellow and passionate red,orange commands attention without overwhelming.This often flamboyant color brings to mind citrus and sunsets,fall leaves,and jack-o-lanterns.Orange has even been found to stimulate appetite and creativity in humans.,Giraffe Silhouet
2、tesHere,three giraffes in Botswanas Okavango Delta stretch their necks above the horizon before a glowing orange sky.,Sunset SpursSunset casts a spurred boot in silhouette in Santa Fe,New Mexico.Such icons of the Old West still have a proud place in everyday New Mexican life.,Lake Michigan SunsetAn
3、orange-tinged sunset provides the backdrop for a sailboat on Lake Michigan.This 321-mile-long(517-kilometer-long)body of water is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.,Turkish Wheat FieldKnobby haystacks dot a wheat field in Malazgirt,Turkey,as sunset bathes two workers in h
4、azy orange light.,Insulation FibersMolten glass is turned into insulation at the Johns-Manville Corporation in Berlin,New Jersey.The orange-hot fluid is forced through holes in a palladium sheet to form long,thin fibers.,Orange TulipsVibrant tulips brighten the Samuels Bulb Garden at St.Louiss Misso
5、uri Botanical Garden.Established in 1859,the garden is an internationally recognized center for botanical research and a year-round urban oasis for flower fans.,Dingo FenceOrange sunset colors the sand around Australias famed dingo fence,a 3,355-mile(5,400-kilometer)barrier that crosses the countrys
6、 desert interior and separates cattle and sheep from predatory wild dogs.,Beehive HutsThe dusty-orange,beehive-shaped huts of Tall Mardkh,Syria,were built some 200 years ago by an ancient method which has since been lost.The shape and materials of these mud-brick dwellings help them remain cool in s
7、ummer and warm in winter.,Flock in FlightBirds fill an orange sky over Germanys Wattenmeer National Park.This coastal wetland,covered by the sea at high tide,is home to some 3,200 different animals and a popular stopover for many migratory birds.,Crowded Fish PondScores of orange koi fish crowd a po
8、nd in Oahu,Hawaii.Prized by collectors,koi are an ornamental variety of freshwater carp originally raised in Japan.,Orange CoralA tubastraea coral waves its wispy,orange tentacles near Sangeang Island,Indonesia.Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor,but they support one out of ev
9、ery four marine creatures.,Grand CanyonThe pastel-orange of the Grand Canyons sandstone walls dominates the view from the vantage known as SB Point.The canyons rock layers display a geological history some two billion years old.,ScorpionScorpians have survived for hundreds of millions of years by be
10、ing extremely adaptable.Some,like this orange-colored species in the Grand Canyon,dwell in desert climes,while others inhabit the tropics,temperate forests,and even Himalayan high peaks.,Shenandoah MoonThe moon rises over Big Meadows on an autumn evening in Virginias Shenandoah National Park.Some 45
11、0 families in the Blue Ridge Mountains were relocated when the park was created in the 1930s.,Setting SunA burning orange sun sets behind a fringe of pampas grass in Japan.Japans nickname,The Land of the Rising Sun,is derived from the Chinese ideograph meaning place of the suns origin.,Orange Nudibr
12、anchThis toxic orange Godiva nudibranch was photographed in the Raja Ampat islands,Papua,Indonesia.There are over 3,000 known species of these colorful sea slug relatives,and new ones are discovered nearly every day.,Sun ConuresTwo brightly colored sun conures relax on a branch at the Bramble Park Z
13、oo in Watertown,South Dakota.These South American parakeets are common in captivity,but wild populations have crashed due to unregulated trapping.,Tarantula HairAn extreme close-up shows the delicate hair of an orange baboon tarantula,a resident of the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls,South Dakota.Th
14、is large,aggressive species is native to Africa.,Dust Storm,SydneyThe dust storm that hit Sydney on 23 September 2009 was hopefully a once in a lifetime event and not a sign of things to come in this time of climate change.This image,captured at 6:30,shows not only the incredible colours but the den
15、sity of the dust.Fortunately the camera(and photographer)survived,despite being covered in fine red dust.Estimates are that over 1000 tonnes of dust were dumped on Sydney,after having traveled over 1000 kilometers from Broken Hill.,Lightning,Superstition MountainsA thunderstorm strikes over the foot
16、hills of the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona.,Bonneville Salt Flats at Night,UtahThe electric blush of Salt Lake City,more than a hundred miles(160 kilometers)away,brushes the horizon over Utahs Bonneville Salt Flats.,Mt.Kilauea Eruption at Night,HawaiiLava from Mt Kilaeau flowed down the
17、slopes via lava tubes into the ocean and the resulting violent explosions generated such large steam columns as to pull up waterspouts from the sea.This spectacular display continued into the night and also called down lightning from the sky.,Giraffes at Sunset,Masai Mara Park,KenyaAfter a safari in
18、 the Masai Mara Park we were racing back to our camp trying to get home before sunset.No one is allowed out in the park after dark.When I saw this photo op I had to convince our driver to stop just for a second so I could take this one picture.It was worth the risk of a fine for being out after suns
19、et but fortunately we made it back in time.,Chicago City LightsChicago at night burns bright under blankets of clouds.Much of the glow escapes from streetlamps,including clear,Victorian-style lamps good for creating atmosphere but poor for harnessing todays extra-bright bulbs.,Owachomo Bridge at Nig
20、ht,UtahA starry night gleams above Owachomo Bridge in Utahs Natural Bridges National Monumentnamed the first Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association(IDA).Here you see something forgotten,says ranger Scott Ryan,and reconnect with the sky.,Fungus on a Fly,Location Unknown,2000Looking l
21、ike delicate seeds,the spiky spores of a tiny parasitic fungus produce fruit on the back of a fly.These fungi are found throughout the world but will only live on certain insects.,Desert at Dawn,Saudi Arabia,2003A lone man walks over sand dunes in the Saudi Arabian desert.This oil-rich kingdom on th
22、e Arabia Peninsula covers some 770,000 square miles(2 million square kilometers),more than 98 percent of which is desert.,Desert Wildlife,Atacama Desert,Chile,2003 Birds perch on a cactus as a gray fox warily stands below in Chiles Atacama Desert.Rain rarely falls on the Atacamas coastline,but dense
23、 fog known as camanchaca is abundant.The fog nourishes plant communities from cactuses to ferns.,Pines and Palm Trees,Big Cypress National Preserve,Florida,1996 Sunset bathes Floridas Big Cypress National Preserve in an orange glow.The preserve,720,000 acres(291,375 hectares)of primordial swamp on F
24、loridas southwest coast,is home to the elusive Florida panther and an impressive diversity of birds,among other unique fauna and flora.But human development in and around the area threatens to send this fragile ecosystem into a tailspin.,Waterfowl,Zambezi River,1997 Silhouetted by salmon skies at su
25、nset,a pair of waterfowl alights on a tree limb near the Zambezi River.Often called the lifeline of southern Africa,the Zambezi cuts a 2,200-mile(3,540-kilometer)course east from Zambia to the Indian Ocean,sustaining elephants,hippos,crocodiles,hundreds of species of birdsand tens of millions of peo
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