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Two blue whales, a mother and her calf, swim through the open ocean in this aerial photograph. The calf is blowing (spouting, exhaling) with a powerful column of spray. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth.
Image ID: 02304
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Hotel del Coronado with holiday Christmas night lights, known affectionately as the Hotel Del. It was once the largest hotel in the world, and is one of the few remaining wooden Victorian beach resorts. It sits on the beach on Coronado Island, seen here with downtown San Diego in the distance. It is widely considered to be one of Americas most beautiful and classic hotels. Built in 1888, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Image ID: 27396
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark underneath drift kelp, open ocean.
Image ID: 01006
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset.
Image ID: 02286
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue whale 80-feet long, full body photograph of an enormous blue whale showing rostrom head to fluke tail, taken a close range with very wide lens.
Image ID: 27967
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Approaching sunrise and star trails over the San Diego Downtown City Skyline. In this 60 minute exposure, stars create trails through the night sky over downtown San Diego.
Image ID: 28386
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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San Diego city skyline at sunset, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Harbor Island.
Image ID: 27889
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 3497 x 12426 |
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Torrey Pines seacliffs, rising up to 300 feet above the ocean, stretch from Del Mar to La Jolla. On the mesa atop the bluffs are found Torrey pine trees, one of the rare species of pines in the world.
Image ID: 22285
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Hotel del Coronado, known affectionately as the Hotel Del. It was once the largest hotel in the world, and is one of the few remaining wooden Victorian beach resorts. It sits on the beach on Coronado Island, seen here with downtown San Diego in the distance. It is widely considered to be one of Americas most beautiful and classic hotels. Built in 1888, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Image ID: 22287
Location: San Diego, California, USA | San Diego Coronado Bridge, known locally as the Coronado Bridge, links San Diego with Coronado, California. The bridge was completed in 1969 and was a toll bridge until 2002. It is 2.1 miles long and reaches a height of 200 feet above San Diego Bay. Coronado Island is to the left, and downtown San Diego is to the right in this view looking north.
Image ID: 22288
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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San Diego city skyline at sunset, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Harbor Island. A panoramic photograph, composite of thirteen separate images.
Image ID: 22255
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4759 x 15430 |
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Dusk settles on downtown San Diego with snow-covered Mt. Laguna in the distance.
Image ID: 26716
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photographic, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise.
Image ID: 28397
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4332 x 11344 |
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Downtown San Diego and USS Midway. The USS Midway was a US Navy aircraft carrier, launched in 1945 and active through the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, as of 2008 a museum along the downtown waterfront in San Diego.
Image ID: 22289
Location: San Diego, California, USA | San Diego Convention Center, located in the Marina District of downtown San Diego. Built in 1989, the San Diego Convention Center offers 525,700 square feet of exhibit space. It is noted for its distinctive "sails" made of Teflon-coated fiberglass suspended over the central exhibition hall, aptly named Sails Pavilion.
Image ID: 22290
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Marriott Hotel towers, rising above the Embarcadero Marine Park and yacht marina.
Image ID: 22291
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Crystal Pier, 872 feet long and built in 1925, extends out into the Pacific Ocean from the town of Pacific Beach. Mission Bay and downtown San Diego are seen in the distance.
Image ID: 22294
Location: San Diego, California, USA | New Point Loma Lighthouse, situated on the tip of Point Loma Peninsula, marks the entrance to San Diego Bay. The lighthouse rises 70' and was built in 1891 to replace the "old" Point Loma Lighthouse which was often shrouded in fog.
Image ID: 22295
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Downtown San Diego and Petco Park, viewed from the southeast.
Image ID: 22300
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Broken Hill with the Pacific Ocean in the distance. Broken Hill is an ancient, compacted sand dune that was uplifted to its present location and is now eroding.
Image ID: 14758
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | San Diego City Skyline at Sunrise.
Image ID: 28379
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Star Trails over the San Diego Downtown City Skyline. In this 60 minute exposure, stars create trails through the night sky over downtown San Diego.
Image ID: 28383
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Pacific white sided dolphin carrying drift kelp.
Image ID: 00043
Species: Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark searching drift kelp for food, open ocean.
Image ID: 02288
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean.
Image ID: 03325
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Ocean sunfish schooling, open ocean near San Diego.
Image ID: 03562
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California, USA | North Pacific Yellowtail brushing against blue shark.
Image ID: 01000
Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi, Prionace glauca
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark and offshore drift kelp.
Image ID: 01078
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Blue shark underneath drift kelp, open ocean.
Image ID: 01081
Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Quarter Moon over Broken Hill, Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 28366
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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