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What is this picture of? Do you know?

I didn’t instantly recognize this picture when I first saw it. I looked it over several times and could not figure it out. It is one of the photos that is up for a photo contest at National Geographic. There is a lot of good entries and they will be announcing a winner soon. If you want to see some awesome online pictures, from users who have taken some amazing photos, you will have to check out some of the picture entries for this Nat Geo photo contest.

There was two pictures I really liked. One was the picture taken in New York during an electrical storm. There was a small island off the coast of NY; which had a building with a steeple or some type of slender structure that rose high into the sky from a building. An amazing piece of photography captured a huge lightning bolt as the tip of Mother Nature was touch the tip of a man-made structure on Earth. We get the pleasure of seeing this lightning bolt frozen in time, as the picture was perfectly taken. I’m sure in real life, the lightning strike was just a big flash that lasted 1 second or less. It was a very nice picture for the Nat Geo contest.

Have you figured out the picture at the top of this blog post yet? Well I will tell you what it is, but let me tell you about the top National Geographic picture I saw online for this photography contest. It was another weather-related photo, but I don’t think it showcased any lightning. What it did have was awesome and very scary-looking too. It was a huge tornado that got captured on film somewhere in the Midwest. It did tell which state this tornado came from, but I can’t remember which state it was. This has to be one of the closest tornadoes ever photographed. You could see everything and I mean everything! The hard rain and hail could clearly be seen at the bottom of the funnel that was not quite touching the ground. The haze of heavy rains coming from the center of the tornado was touching the Earth. It was a massive tornado in size and its menacing dark look reached all the way up to the heavens while flowering-out over a wide section of the sky. It was not something you would ever want to see in real life. The person who took this picture had enough bravery for an entire combat platoon for the military. I really believe this photo will win the Nat Geo Picture Contest, since it was so amazing to see and what the photographer had to do to get this special picture.

The picture in my blog post above is also up for the National Geographic contest. While I was not able to figure out what this was a picture of, I had to read some of the information; which was provided with it. I was just curious to see if others had the same problem as me? Did you figure out what this picture was about? Well if you look real close, you can see the train tracks at the bottom of the picture. The woman in the photo is riding between two railroad cars, as this train is moving down the tracks. It is not visible in the photograph, but the woman was apparently carrying her luggage under her shirt. It doesn’t look like a good way to travel, but sometimes people just have to do things they don’t want to do, in order to survive. I’m sure she has a very sad story she could tell. I know when we are young, we never thing that could be us there one day. We all need a little luck and help in life, or this could easily be anyone of us, in this sad and dangerous-looking pic above.

Now be sure to reply back and let me know if you figured out the mystery picture. I really wanted to see if I was the only one having trouble. Or if this is just a hard picture to understand. If you did figure it out on your own, without cheating. Please estimate about how long it took you to understand what was going on in the photo, before you finally saw the correct answer.