Water Park, Peru
Photograph by Liesl Marelli,

El Circuito Mágico del Agua in Lima, Peru, South America, is a beautiful water park that comes alive at night with young women celebrating quinceañeras, children playing in the water, and even adults partaking in the excitement. The nights are magical in Lima but my most fond memory was the night I spent at El Circuito Mágico del Agua.

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Woman, Train Platform
Photograph by Rossella Scalia,

"Be sincere: it never crossed your mind to want to see yourself live? You pay attention to living for yourselves, and rightly, with no thought of what in the meanwhile you might be for the others; not because you care nothing about the opinion of others: on the contrary, you care a great deal; but because you live in the blissful illusion that the others, outside, must picture you to themselves as you pictures yourself." —Luigi Pirandello

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Park, United Kingdom
Photograph by Yi Hsien Lee,

Two girls wear little going home regardless of the freezing temperature. But it's quite common in the U.K.

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Ice Cave, Slovenia
Photograph by Peter Gedei,

Ice caves are melting; that's a fact. In an ice cave on the mountain of Stojna near Koƒcevje, Slovenia, the situation has been very dramatic for years. Since 1991 almost four meters of ice have disappeared in the entrance chamber, but at the bottom of the cave emerges a new one. The entrance of this cave faces toward the southeast, which is not common for ice caves. Because of that, the whole area around the entrance is important, and even one cut-down tree can cause huge losses of ice in the cave.

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River House, Serbia
Photograph by Irene Becker

A house in the middle of the Drina River near the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia

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Shoreline, Japan
Photograph by Akira Takaue

Kitaibaraki City, Japan

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Aspen Forest, Colorado
Photograph by Ron Azevedo,

A leaf-covered road entering the deep aspen forests of Colorado

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Fireflies
Photograph by Teruo Araya,

The dream of the night of summer. Many Japanese visualize the dead's soul, seeing the light of a firefly. It is charmed by the light of a firefly as if it was seeing the momentary dream.

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Northern Lights, Iceland
Photograph by Fred Schalk,

On this night northern lights had been predicted, so I decided to find a nice spot on the Reykjanes peninsula. However, the sky wasn't very cooperative, especially in the far distance, so on my way over I stopped near an abandoned house, where it was less cloudy. In some ways the outcome was really not so bad because the clouds, the blue spots in the sky, the green northern lights, and the orange reflection of the Reykjavik city lights all mixed together in a multicolor light show.

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Circle of Sparks
Photograph by Alex Coppel,

Used burning steel wool combined with a moon-filled night to create this amazing effect over a long exposure

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