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May 15, 2008

 

Photo: Cattle bones in the desert

Cattle Bones, Simpson Desert, Australia, 1992

Photograph by Medford Taylor

A multicolored sunset contrasts the bleached bones of dead cattle in Australia's Simpson Desert. Though forbiddingly dry, the Simpson Desert has aquifers and floodplains that make parts of it ideal livestock-grazing country.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Simpson Desert," April 1992, National Geographic magazine)

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