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7th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
Newfound Gap, Smokey Mountain National Park, a group of young Menonite women on the wall at the scenic overlook.

Even though she owns a more sophisticated camera, Vanderlaan had only a point-and-shoot model on hand when she came upon this scene. Fortunately. “If I had to attach a camera lens or manually focus a more complex camera,” she says, “I would have missed this shot completely.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2009
Date Uploaded: 06.2009
Photo Location: Tennessee, United States of America
Camera: u850SW,S850SW
Copyright: © Debra Vanderlaan
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