Commons:Photo challenge/2026 - May - Horizontal lines

2026 – May – Horizontal lines

The new challenge features Horizontal lines.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout May AoE.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. May 2026 AoE (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

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  Hanoi Train Street on Feb 08, 2025
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  leaf backbone
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  Sunset taken at Wreck Beach in Vancouver, British Columbia
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  Close up of a vent, taken in Vancouver, British Columbia
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  Looking up at snow being dumped from a condo in construction taken in black and white in Vancouver, British Columbia
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  Beach in the northeast of Wangerooge, Lower Saxony, Germany
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  Percival Molson Memorial Stadium in Montreal, Quebec
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  Grand Anicut constructed during AD 150 Tamilnadu, India
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  'Horizon'tal where sky meets water surface
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  Electric line, sparrows
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  Window blinds in my room
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  Rain, autumn rain - water drops on clotheslines
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  Cast iron storm sewer
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  Condensed water vapor - window in winter
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  Rear lighthouse of the Kronstadt range lights viewed across the frozen Neva Bay
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  Fishermen on the ice of the Neva Bay
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  Small racks created Horizontal Lines
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  Stairs up (St. Paul's Ruins)
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  roof of houses in Macau
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  A crosswalk outside hotel at Okinawa
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  Buildings in Hualien
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  Scalinata con gatti nel borgo antico di Bassano Romano (Viterbo)
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  Bookshelves in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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  Nabataean theater in Petra, Jordan
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  Eastern tip of the island of Wangerooge
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  Remains of the railway connection to the eastern pier on Wangerooge
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  Andean condors soaring in Patagonia, Chile
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  A view through the railings of the Waldschlößchen Bridge onto the River Elbe in Dresden
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  A protective grille in the IGA Park Rostock
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  Evening atmosphere by the sea at the entrance to Rostock harbour
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  In a building under reconstruction, a historic window is protected by wooden boards
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  The sun is below the horizon
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  Seagull, horizon line
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  Footprints, beach, horizon line
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  A horizontal line formed from a head of Guinness beer
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  Bridges in Bratislava, Apollo Bridge in front and Harbour Bridge in back (Slovakia).
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  Immeuble Lumière - Paris 12
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  Immeuble près des quais St-Emilion - Paris 12
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  Immeuble près des quais St-Emilion - Paris 12
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  croisement de trains à grande vitesse – filé
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  Horizontal Line Building
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  Horizontal Architecture with Flying Vulture
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  Evening Light On Building
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  A dual-height handrail at JR Toyama Station, Japan
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  Blind shadows pattern on a bowl with three oranges
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  My room, window with a light curtain
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  The UMCS rector's office building in Lublin, Poland
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  :Felled trees on a cart - the village of Męćmierz near Kazimierz Dolny
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  A bench in winter-"Czechów" housing estate, Lublin, Poland
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  Mine d'ocre
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  Cantharellus cibarius
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  Saarpolygon in Ensdorf Saarland
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  Berlin-Marzahn, high-rise buildings at Helene-Weigel-Platz, seen from Springpfuhl-Park.
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  Berlin-Marzahn, high-rise buildings at Helene-Weigel-Platz.
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  Double rainbow on an apartment building
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  Glass Wall design creates Horizontal Lines
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  Wooden buckets (Teoke / 手桶) on a shelf (Teoke-dana / 手桶棚) and ladles (Hishaku / 柄杓) at Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo
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  Ecocathedral in Mildam municipality of Heerenveen, Part of surplus building material stacked in a special way.
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  Knitted pullover for a member of our family, self made.
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  Bridge across the Teriberka River
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  Pumping station at the oil terminal
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  No way
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  View from Pferdskopf looking west towards the Taunus mountains in a distance of 108 km
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  2026 Miami GP grandstand aspect
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  Kornwerderzand Museum. Detail of casemate with firing slit.
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  Rangierbahnhof Limmattal, seen from a train
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  Round led lights above wooden beams
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  Mantis religiosa
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  Disk golf disks
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  power pole on a bright day.
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  Sonnenblumenfeld bei Glaubitz. Landkreis Meißen in Sachsen.
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  Painted staircase in the museum "Pommersches Landesmuseum", Greifswald, Germany
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  Boardwalk at geyser "Old Faithfull", Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
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  Painted staircase on Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour (artist: Carlo Coniglio), Noto, Italy
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  Terraces of copper mining, Bingham Canyon Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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  Photo of some electricity cables taken on Navalagamella
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  Taken on the ground floor of the Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
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  Sonnenuntergang über den Atlantik, betrachte von Faial
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  Blick in den Braunkohle-Tagebau in Inden (Rheinland)
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  Impression am Rhein-Herne-Kanal
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  Ansicht des Rhein von der Halde Rockelsberg auf die gegenüberliegenden Hafenanlagen, Duisburg
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  Fencing Lines protection at Cubbon Park, Bengaluru, India
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  Tourists leaning at parapet lines of Dolphin's Nose View Point at Coonoor, Nilgiris
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  Pattern of Lines at Parry's Corner, Chennai, India
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  View through window grid lines of Government Museum at Bengaluru
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  Time ON LINE
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  Okayama Castle seen through an art installation
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  Interior of Senjokaku, Toyokuni Shrine, Miyajima
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  Atrium of Kojimachi NS Building, Tokyo
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  Circular window corridor at Yokosuka Museum of Art
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  Grand Canyon West – panoramic view from Guano Point
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  Staff gauge on Buffumville Dam
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  Saint Pétersbourg Doors of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Russia
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  Terp fan de Takomst near Blije is located in Noard-Fryslân Bûtendyks. Part of the project in progress.
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  City Landscape on Horizontal Line
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  Unterführung Essen Hauptbahnhof_Lichtinstallation
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  Sonnenaufgang über dem Roten Meer. Makadi Bay, Ägypten.
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  Spitfire showing off the invasion stripes on the underside of its wings.
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  Red Arrows flying in formation leaving behind parallel smoke trails.
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  Praga R1 with a livery showing aerodynamics inspired lines across the car.
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  JR Kyushu Station Hotel Kokura in Japan
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  Mohnfeld bei Grumbach in Sachsen. Landschaftsschutzgebiet Mulden- und Chemnitztal.
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  Stromnetz. Seiltausch für höhere Übertragungsleistung
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  Dado Sura above Breil/Brigels. Skihut/restaurant Alp Dado Sura (2070m.) Terrace fence.
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  A street stage decorated in the national Yakut style
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  A street stage decorated in the national Yakut style
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  Staccionate di legno lungo il ruscello alle Terme di Sorano (Toscana)
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  橱窗内的滑雪者与水平线
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  Port Adelaide View 1
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  Port Adelaide View 2
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  Esposizione di vasi fioriti nel borgo di Santa Fiora (Toscana)
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  Observation deck at the funicular station on Hrebienok, High Tatras, Slovakia.
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  Strings of a grand piano
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  Hâble d'Ault seen from Cayeux-sur-Mer, France
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  Chambre à 6 lits, sous-marin le Redoutable
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  Lesser Yellowlegs in a puddle.
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  Miami street view from Brickell City Center
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  Buildings in Toronto
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  Life philosophy sign
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  Tunnel ventilation at Vienna Central Station, with butterfly bushes growing in front of it
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  Yellow markings on the Luchtsingel Path, an expensive project launched in 2015 to improve the quality of life in Rotterdam, but which soon fell into disrepair
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  Yards and masts of the cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ship Peking, now a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany
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  Steel steps of the Elia artwork after a rain, Birk Centerpark, Herning, Denmark
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  Shop display at Munich Central Station, D.
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  Eglise Saint-Joseph, Paris, F.
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  Wooden shoes on Ameland, Netherlands.
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  Oystercatchers on Ameland, NL.
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  Horisontal bars of tram poles in Dnipro, Ukraine.
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  Schlechtes Wetter für Biergärten
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  Bank im Hafen von Stralsund
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  Horizontal vineyard wires in a vineyard in contre-jour
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  Hikers walk through a horizontal snow bridge
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  Horizontal tyre casts on a sandy beach
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  Lawn edge in a front garden
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  Horizontal lines of the chairlift for skiers from Štrbské Pleso to Solisko - Furkota, High Tatras, Slovakia.
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  Picketing workers and students rally on Revson Plaza above Amsterdam Avenue during the 2021 Columbia strikes
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  Trackage at NYC's Marble Hill–225th street station
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  Rapsfeld beim Hohndorf. Erzgebirgskreis, Sachsen.
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  Drainage pit cover near fountain of Yuzhno-Primorsky Park, Saint Petersburg
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  Escalator of Chernyshevskaya metrostation in Saint Petersburg
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  The Mekong, in Laos, near Pak Beng
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  Is this man washing the windows or painting clouds
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  Crescent Moon next to Venus at 5:40am in Brasilia, DF Brazil
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  underside of the JK Bridge in Brasilia, DF Brazil dissapearing into the morning fog
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  a mural on the wall with a checkerboard sidewalk. Brasilia, DF Brazil
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  Caught the Sun red handed
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  Love locks filled bridge railing
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  Towards end of the life
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  Flexible shelfs of the study room
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  Red and white - vertical and horizontal lines
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  Small abandoned building through a glass-less window
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  sky is the limit
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  the Dusk
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  Sunset over Lake Kownackie, Mrówki, Poland
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  Sunset on the beach in Santa Monica, California, USA
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  Exterior of Sound barrier wall while a bus was running on the elevated road at night.
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  Dot pattern zebra crossing with Vehicle light trails in Bade District, Taoyuan City at night
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  Mezereon in the nature reserve Murnauer Moos
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  window
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  Warehouse wall
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  Chikurin-ji temple in Kochi, Japan
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  Balconies in PMQ, Hong Kong
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  Beach hut in Southwold, Suffolk, England
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  Beach huts at the Plage de Calais, France
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  Vineyard in Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany with trellising
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  garden bench in winter
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  Shadows on a sidewalk, Zakopane, Poland
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  Horizontal and vertical lines of Victoria Palace facade, Prague, Czechia
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  Pankrác metro station, reopened after reconstruction, with partially attached marble siding; Prague, Czechia
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  Municipal district office of Prague 15, Czechia
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  Lijnenspel, een foto gemaakt van kunstwerk gemaakt door Anja Namink
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  Book-shaped tree bark specimen in a Xylotheque in the Strahov Library, Prague
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  Esslingen city wall, steps to the castle, GER
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  Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam open for ships
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  Les Planches beach promenade in the French seaside resort of Deauville
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  Stone bridge of Hohenrechberg Castle, GER
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  Crepuscular rays cloudy sky seaview with a moving line of jet skiing on the Bashi Channel sea in the afternoon
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  Nature Landscape from Seaview tower in Kenting Forest Recreation Area on February 18
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  Bridges in Ustka
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  Stairs connecting the Lone Poplar and the Holy Spring, Protected Area in the Republic of Kalmykia
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  Horizontal Lines in a field of Verlinghem (Fr)
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  Horizontal Lines in a school building in Howrah City
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  Horizontal Lines created by Bus in Howrah City
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  Soffitto decorato nella Camera del Baldacchino, Castello Orsini-Odescalchi di Bracciano
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  Lanterns in Kasuga-taisha shrine (Nara, Japan)
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  Last trip of the bird while the sunset
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  Rustic steps rising upwards
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  Parallel lines for drying the clothes
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  Sweating iron
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  A cat stares out of a window, surrounded by horizontal siding, in Duluth, Minnesota in the Central Hillside neighborhood.
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  Cuneiform on clay cylinders dedicated to Iddin-Dagan, Louvre-Lens museum (Fr)
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  The horizon holds secrets only the sky understands.
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  Over the Horizon
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  Sea view at Naminoue Umisora Park, Naha, Okinawa
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  Stormy sunset over La Gomera
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  Strand railway station is the main railway station of Strand and sounrounding towns
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  Building on Strand beachfront at twilight.
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  Shoes in the corner
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  Stairs in the forest.
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  Inside at the convention center in Bayugan City with horizontal lines each including at the Taekwondo mat with yellow and red horizontal lines.
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