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July 28, 2004

 

Photo: Blue Cavern

Blue Cavern, Greece, 1979

Photograph by James P. Blair

Sunlight streams into a water-filled cavern.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greece," March 1980, National Geographic magazine)

 

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