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17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Solitude

I spent the months aboard a Coast Guard cutter in the Pacific, and felt a profound sense of solitude. After coming home, I traveled to Alaska and was surprised to find the same sense of peaceful solitude in being so small a thing in such a frighteningly large world.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2019
Date Uploaded: 10.2019
Photo Location: Girdwood, Alaska, United States of America
Camera: ILCE-7M2
Copyright: © Edward Mewborn