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Senior Photo Editor for National Geographic Magazine, making these iPhone field notes while wandering near and far from home. [streaming via Instagram @chenpamela]
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Sick day Saturday means time to think, rest, and go through some almost posts that never made it. Equivalent mood of downtime peace and quiet in this #Norway #latergram

Sick day Saturday means time to think, rest, and go through some almost posts that never made it. Equivalent mood of downtime peace and quiet in this #Norway #latergram

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Consulting with neuroscientists in their research laboratory at Duke University for an upcoming @natgeo story. These guys advance #science day by day, experiment by experiment. #blue #amazing (Taken with Instagram at Duke University)

Consulting with neuroscientists in their research laboratory at Duke University for an upcoming @natgeo story. These guys advance #science day by day, experiment by experiment. #blue #amazing (Taken with Instagram at Duke University)

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Unreal sunburst through the last traces of foggy cloud cover on landing in #Durham today to consult leading-edge neuroscientists for @natgeo. Mind about to be blown. Can’t wait.  (Taken with Instagram at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU))

Unreal sunburst through the last traces of foggy cloud cover on landing in #Durham today to consult leading-edge neuroscientists for @natgeo. Mind about to be blown. Can’t wait. (Taken with Instagram at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU))

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We were standing here under open sky on the naked steel of what would be the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center, interviewing the dedicated #ironworkers in the process of building it. New York City seemed so quiet from up here. Now one year later on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it’s topped out at 104 stories. #groundzero #NYC (Taken with Instagram)

We were standing here under open sky on the naked steel of what would be the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center, interviewing the dedicated #ironworkers in the process of building it. New York City seemed so quiet from up here. Now one year later on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it’s topped out at 104 stories. #groundzero #NYC (Taken with Instagram)

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#Ironworkers are the cowboys of the sky. I was lucky enough to interview the elite crew atop One World Trade Center in the making, this time last year. Here Jim Brady connects two steel beams that would become the 72nd floor. #groundzero #NYC
 (Taken with Instagram)

#Ironworkers are the cowboys of the sky. I was lucky enough to interview the elite crew atop One World Trade Center in the making, this time last year. Here Jim Brady connects two steel beams that would become the 72nd floor. #groundzero #NYC
(Taken with Instagram)

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Let my fingers graze the green around me on a little path through a not-so-secret #garden. (Taken with Instagram at The Old Stone House)

Let my fingers graze the green around me on a little path through a not-so-secret #garden. (Taken with Instagram at The Old Stone House)

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