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Longtime subscriber Marc Rose shared this photo of storm clouds gathered over the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Longtime subscriber Marc Rose shared this photo of storm clouds gathered over the Black Hills in South Dakota.
Aug 16, 2021

Calling amateur photographers!

Have you taken a great picture that you’d like to share with the world? One with action, great lighting and/or interesting subjects? E-mail it to communitynews@ajc.com. Please no selfies, for-profit promotional pics, group shots or anything you wouldn’t want your grandma to see.

"This picture was taken in St. Augustine, Fl. These girls are cousins but more like sisters," wrote Chrissi L. Denman of Marietta. "They were both curious and tried looking through this window in downtown St. Augustine. Vivienne (my niece) is on the left and Everly (my daughter is on the right)."
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"With camera in hand, while accompanying my nephew on a 'boulder climb' at the foot of Yonah Mountain, I snapped a photo I named 'Napping Bear,' " wrote Toni Jernigan. "News to me, the Cherokee word for bear is Yonah!"
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Arnold Ross said he "met this beauty eye-to-eye on the Roswell Greenway – no more than 10 feet between us. What a magnificent barred owl!"
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