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Bryce Canyon, Utah

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Samburu, Kenya

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Anse Cafard Memorial, Martinique

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Elephants, Savute Channel, Botswana

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Jökulsárlón, Iceland

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Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa

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"Sally Lightfoot" crab, Galapagos Islands

Submitted by Sarah Lynch / UGC

Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia

Adam Jewell / UGC

Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah

Submitted by Jana Ireijo / UGC

Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City

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Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico

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2012 Venice Carnevale

Submitted by Jill Davidson / UGC

Oregon coast

Submitted by Katie Cornett / UGC

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Submitted by Brett Coonrod / UGC

Eagle Beach, Aruba

Submitted by Jean Chisser / UGC

Exuma Islands, Bahamas

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Beach huts at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, UK

Submitted by Ryan Bricker / UGC

Morning sunrise in Masai Mara, Kenya.

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Saarbrucken, Germany

Submitted by Jared Bombaci / UGC

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

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Dawn breaking over the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

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Submitted by Ann Mellema / UGC

Great Blue Heron, Florida

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Cabo de la Vela, Colombia

Submitted by Jackie Bryan / UGC

Oregon coast

Submitted by Dave Tutin / UGC

Leopard, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Submitted by Christene Main / UGC

Gimmelwald, Switzerland

Submitted by Doug Levy / UGC

Sloths

Submitted by Adil Ifham / UGC

Piha Beach, New Zealand

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Akaka Falls, Hawaii

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Zebra, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Isle of Wight, England

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Toucan, Parque das Aves near Iguazu Falls in Brazil

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Great Wall of China

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Keukenhof, Holland

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Manarola, Italy

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Jefferson Monument, Washington, D.C.

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Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, Ireland

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Rainbow

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Uluwatu, Bali

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Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan

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View from the Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France

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Oregon coast

Submitted by David Jordan / UGC

Hurricane Earl, 2010, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

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Lake Mohonk, New Paltz, N.Y.

Submitted by Amy Jones / UGC

The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

Submitted by Coral Jensen / UGC

Tower Fall in Yellowstone National Park

Submitted by Marty Howes / UGC

Village in Runkel, Germany

Submitted by Dan Deutsch / UGC

Haleakala crater, Maui, Hawaii

Submitted by Robert Jacobs / UGC

Dry Falls, near Highlands, N.C.

Submitted by Martin de la Torre / UGC

Fronton, Mexico City, Mexico

Submitted by Michael Coons / UGC

San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Niagara Falls, Canada

Submitted by Lisa Cavazos / UGC

Melidoni Cave, Crete

Submitted by Patrick Cates / UGC

St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, Czech Republic

Submitted by Dennis Black / UGC

Seven Sacred Pools, Maui, Hawaii

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A sunset view south of Santa Cruz, Chile, captures a full moon rising above the Andes.

Matt Gefroh and his wife were on their way to Chile's wine region, driving from Pucón to Santa Cruz, when they stopped by the road to photograph vineyards in the setting sun. Then they spotted the full moon.

"As with most of the weather my wife and I experienced in Chile, the skies were clean and clear and seemed to stretch out forever," Gefroh told TODAY.com.

"This photo is a composition of two identical photos at different exposure levels," he said. "I knew it would be difficult to adequately capture the colors of the dusk sky along with the details of the bright moon so I snapped several photos and used PhotoShop to merge them together."

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• A Kosua tribeswoman
• Catching an Oregon waterfall

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Glacial silt draining into Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand

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Kosua Woman, Papua New Guinea

Submitted by Rafael Gonzalez / UGC

Panama City, Panama

Submitted by Jared Bombaci / UGC

Sand dunes near Sossusvlei salt pan, Namibia.

Submitted by Coral Jensen / UGC

Lower Falls at sunset in Yellowstone National Park

Submitted by Bryan Zittlow / UGC

Dew on a spiderweb - early morning in California

Submitted by Lisa Cavazos / UGC

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Submitted By Gillian Zabaneh / UBC

Tipsy Tuna, Placencia, Belize

Submitted by Martha Johnston / UGC

Destroyed Monastery outside Antigua, Guatemala

Submitted by Arthur Burghardt / UGC

Southern face of Mount Shasta in California

Submitted by Geoffrey Miller / UGC

Dunluce Castle, Northern Ireland

Submitted by George Shia / UGC

Fairy Chimneys, Cappadocia region of Turkey. Photo taken in late October 2011.

Submitted by Matthew Gefroh / UGC

Full moon rising above the Andes south of Santiago, Chile.

Submitted by Amelia Schroeder / UGC

Vernazza village in the Cinque Terre region on the Italian coast

Submitted by Matthew Bentley / UGC

Neuschwanstein Castle in Fussen, Germany

Submitted by Michele Allen / UGC

At Wild Things in Salinas, Calif.

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Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany

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Submitted by Alex Travers / UGC

Cheetah in Tshukudu Reserve, South Africa

Submitted by Thomas Spalding / UGC

Torridon Mountains, Scotland

Submitted by Carole Sooy / UGC

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

Submitted by Josh Noland / UGC

Ulu Temburong National Par, Brunei

Submitted by Mark Kiley / UGC

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, Calif.

Submitted by Aaron Keigher / UGC

Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, Calif.

Submitted by Joel Jacobson / UGC

Rockhopper penguin, Deseado, Argentina

Submitted by Jana Ireijo / UGC

Duomo di Milano, Italy

Submitted by Kyle Henning / UGC

Mount Kenya

Submitted by Carlos Chan / UGC

Panama

Submitted by Tod Carroll / UGC

View of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Submitted by Brian Bumby / UGC

Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

Submitted by Jesse Brisendine / UGC

New York City

Submitted by Jake Bochove / UGC

Paris, France

Submitted by Jessica Baskett / UGC

Old World Swallowtail, Pt. Loma, San Diego, California

Submitted by Bill Bailey / UGC

Parrot, Yucatan Jungle, Mexico

Submitted by Dave Atkins / UGC

Cheetah, Masai Mara, Kenya

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Cinque Terre, Italy

Submitted by Lauren Alexander / UGC

The 12 Apostles, Great Ocean Road, Australia

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Capitol Reef National Park

Adam Jewell took this photo of Capitol Reef National Park in May 2011 while hiking the Chimney Rock Trail.

"Hoodoos and towering red rock castles are just some of the spectacular sights that delight visitors to Capitol Reef National Park," Jewell tells TODAY.com.  

Jewell captured the photo during the second year of a planned four-year road trip to all the national parks in the lower 48 states. Too often, Jewell says, Capitol Reef is overlooked because other Utah national parks such as Arches, Bryce Canyon and Zion get all the attention.

"Capitol Reef National Park features brilliantly colored rock formations along the Waterpocket Fold as well as canyon hikes, arches, natural bridges and the Fremont River," he says.

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Firehole - Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, CA

TODAY Travel readers who enjoyed our recent post on the Yosemite "firefall" may want to check out today's photo from Aaron Keigher.

Keigher, a professional landscape and nature photographer as well as a frequent contributor to It's a Snap!, took this photo of a "firehole" at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, Calif., during a November sunset.

"There's a beach in Big Sur that is just a little off the beaten path," Keigher told TODAY Travel. "There is not even a sign on the road to let you know that there is a beach there. Most people who drive up and down Highway 1 don't even know it's there and just pass on by. 

"If you are lucky enough to be on the beach at sunset, on a clear sunny day when you have the right tide, you will get a real light show. The sun, as it gets low in the sky, starts sending this warm light beam through the opening of the rock. When that light hits the crashing surf and mist ... wow!"

To capture this image, Keigher used HDR (high dynamic range), which he said can be an important tool for a photographer when used appropriately. "The bright sky and the dark rocks were way out of any camera's dynamic range. The only way to do it was to shoot two images, one with the rocks properly exposed and the other exposed for the sky and then blend them into one HDR image.

"The dynamic range of a camera is much smaller than the range of the human eye. That means that under extreme lighting, our eyes can make out a much broader range of light and dark then a camera can. By shooting in HDR, a photographer can broaden the range of his camera, and if done right, recreate an image that is closer to what the human eye actually saw." 

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Fanning Island Lagoon, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific

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Submitted by Michelle Bishop / UGC

Sunset at Mono Lake, Calif.

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Mont Saint-Michel, France

Submitted by David Taft / UGC

Scarves, Todra Gorge, Morocco

Submitted by Sara Sylvester / UGC

White Island, New Zealand

Submitted by Chris Racanelli / UGC

Multnomah Falls, near Troutdale, Ore.

Submitted by Becky Motzkus / UGC

Half Dome, Yosemite, Calif.

Submitted by DeGrey Phillips / UGC

Luxor, Egypt

Submitted by Jerry Mickish / UGC

Cheetah in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Submitted by Rebecca Ludwig / UGC

Iguana in Roatan, Honduras

Submitted by Brandon Maynard / UGC

Hiking Mt. Washington In New Hampshire

Submitted by Wenyi Dai / UGC

Lake Michigan, Chicago, Ill.

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Costa's Hummingbird

Submitted by Tom Kwei / UGC

Huangshan, China

Submitted by Lisa Kritz / UGC

View of Mt. Whitney from Lone Pine, Calif.

Submitted by Sandra Koch / UGC

Ephesus, Turkey

Submitted by Pamela Jauer / UGC

Punta Arenas, Chile

Submitted by Claude GRANDPEY / UGC

Mount Etna, Italy

Submitted by Paul Burford / UGC

San Francisco, Calif.

Submitted by Sara Adamak / UGC

Badlands National Park, S.D.

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Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

Stephan Ferry was visiting Lake McDonald, which lies at the west entrance of Glacier National Park, in the fall of 2011 on a windless, sunny day when he captured this image.

Glaciers carved this lake, the largest in the park, which reaches 10 miles in length and nearly 500 feet deep. The valley in which the lake sits features hiking trails, plant and animal life, historic chalets and Lake McDonald Lodge.

"Every day in Glacier is unique ... but this day was simply incredible," Ferry told TODAY.com. "The problems of the days, weeks, years slip away as soon as you set eyes on the beauty of the park."

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• Sunbeam in the Andes

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Table Mountain, South Africa

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Alpacas, Machu Picchu, Peru

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Impala, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia

Submitted by Paula Taylor / UGC

Japanese Snow monkeys at Jigokudani Park, Nagano, Japan

Submitted by Will Parkhouse / UGC

Maroon Lake, Aspen, Colo.

Submitted by Shelley Joy Menzel / UGC

Grand Canyon, Ariz.

Submitted by Robert Luce / UGC

Egrets, Baja, Mexico

Submitted by Jessica Johnson / UGC

Wadi Rum, Jordan

Submitted by Tom Gubala / UGC

Golden monkey, Rwanda

Submitted by Stephan Ferry / UGC

Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, Mont.

Submitted by Lori Ballard / UGC

Farm in Vega, N.Y.

Submitted by Chris Edwards / UGC

Phuket, Thailand

Submitted by Darwin Dirks / UGC

Wasatch Mountains, northern Utah

Submitted by David Cudney / UGC

Sandia Mountains, Albuquerque, N.M.

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Double-O Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

Submitted by Erlah Burdic / UGC

Central Oregon coastline

Submitted by Jeff Borriello / UGC

Western Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

Submitted by Carolyn Bistline / UGC

Siesta Key Beach, Fla.

Submitted by David Atkins / UGC

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Submitted by Saba Alhadi / UGC

Keukenhof Gardens, Lisse, Holland

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A shaft of sunlight touches down on Imbabura, Ecuador.

Nick Zetts caught a local bus to the hill in Imbabura, Ecuador, where he took this photo in January 2007. The rainy season in the Andes brings in overcast skies, with the occasional cloud breaks to let the sun shine through.

Zetts lived in Imbabura for two-and-a-half years, doing agriculture work, and told TODAY.com that he thoroughly enjoyed the landscape and the strong connection that people still have with the land.   

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