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Goats on a Via Ferrata, a form of mountain traffic jam.
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Mountains goats on a via ferrata.
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Autumn vegetation.
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Autumn vegetation.
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![20061014-AutumnColorsVPano_ - Autumn is definitely the color of the day.
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Autumn is definitely the color of the day.
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Mix of dead leaves and live plants.
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Dead leave surrounding mountain spring.
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Autumn-colored leaves.
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![20070128-StreamSnowVPano_ - Mountain spring in winter, with snow-covered pine trees.
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Mountain spring in winter, with snow-covered pine trees.
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![20070429-210014-LightningGrenoble - Lightning strike during a spring thunderstorm above Grenoble.
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Lightning strike during a spring thunderstorm above Grenoble.
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Lightning above the city of Grenoble.
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Red poppy flower.
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![20070504_150822_OrangeFlower - Deep orange on dark green, this escholzia (or californian poppy) is an evil test of the camera color limits.
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Deep orange on dark green, this escholzia (or californian poppy) is an evil test of the camera color limits.
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Escholzio (Californian poppy) flower.
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![20070524_220148_LightningGrenoble_ - The lightning strike on the right hits above the 'Bastille', the old citadel of Grenoble.
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The lightning strike on the right hits above the 'Bastille', the old citadel of Grenoble.
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![20070524_220337_LightningGrenoble_ - Thunderstorm above the Chartreuse range.
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Thunderstorm above the Chartreuse range.
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![20070524_220731_LightningGrenoble_ - Most of the strikes during the thunderstorm hit the Neron, the mountain on the left which dominates Grenoble by its proximity.
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Most of the strikes during the thunderstorm hit the Neron, the mountain on the left which dominates Grenoble by its proximity.
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![20070623_133538_ChorancheCave - View of the Choranche cave and the thinnest stalactites in the world.
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View of the Choranche cave and the thinnest stalactites in the world.
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![20070623_134103_ChorancheCave - The Choranche cave in the Vercors is famous for its needle-thin hordes of stalactites hanging from just about everywhere.
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The Choranche cave in the Vercors is famous for its needle-thin hordes of stalactites hanging from just about everywhere.
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![20070623_134453_ChorancheCave - Large stalagmite raising from the river inside the Choranche cave.
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Large stalagmite raising from the river inside the Choranche cave.
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Butterfly on lavender flowers.
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![20070624_114314_LavenderButterfly - Butterfly on a lavender flower.
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Butterfly on a lavender flower.
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![20070624_114546_LavenderButterfly - Bee preparing lavender honey.
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Bee preparing lavender honey.
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![20070624_114830_BugsSharingRedFlower - Three bugs sharing a dahlia flower.
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Three bugs sharing a dahlia flower.
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![20070624_145143_ButterflyTree - The same hawk-moth hovering above its favorite lunch, the aptly called butterfly-tree.
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The same hawk-moth hovering above its favorite lunch, the aptly called butterfly-tree.
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![20070624_145208_ButterflyTree - Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) hovering about a 'butterfly tree'.
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Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) hovering about a 'butterfly tree'.
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![20070624_160502_WaspsYellowFlower - A yellowjacket wasp gathering sap off the surface of a trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) flower.
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A yellowjacket wasp gathering sap off the surface of a trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) flower.
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![20070624_173523_DrunkWasp - A wasp so drunk on fermented flower sap that it can't swallow down its last drop and has a hell of a time taking off.
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A wasp so drunk on fermented flower sap that it can't swallow down its last drop and has a hell of a time taking off.
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Mere Eglise, oldest church of the Devoluy.
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![20070701_082206_MereEglise - A not-so-old cross facing the Obiou, Devoluy.
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A not-so-old cross facing the Obiou, Devoluy.
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![20070701_082238_MereEglise - A wooden cross before the Obiou, Devoluy.
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A wooden cross before the Obiou, Devoluy.
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Edelweiss flowers.
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Dried carcass of a mountain sheep in the Vanoise.
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Friendly fox at night.
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![20070907-215359_Fox - A friendly and fearless fox that doesn't seem to mind being photographed.
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A friendly and fearless fox that doesn't seem to mind being photographed.
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Praying mantis eating its pray.
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Lightning strike over Grenoble.
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![20070923-182547_CroixDesTetes - Evening on the summit of the Croix des Tetes.
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Evening on the summit of the Croix des Tetes.
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Fly on dandelion flower.
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Holly (Ilex aquifolium).
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