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a windswept live oak captured agains pre-dawn, pre tropical storm skies of purple and pink...

a windswept live oak captured agains pre-dawn, pre tropical storm skies of purple and pink...
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NIKON D70

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Aperture f/4.5 ISO 200 Shutter 1/60

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May, 2012

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Wow, please add this photo to the Purple Sky Photo Challenge, thanks. :-)

http://www.viewbug.com/challenge/purple-landscape-photo-challenge-by-alanc

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