Hokkaido park calls this time of year the “green season,” but “rainbow season” would be a lot more accurate.
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Flower park in northern Japan looks too beautiful to be real, but this happens every year【Photos】
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The Story Behind the Beautiful Photo of the New MacBook ‘Mountain Lion’ OS
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Danielnishina
Jun 20, 2012
One of the MacBook Pro desktop backgrounds featured on Apple’s website shows an astoundingly exquisite azure pond with bare trees coming out of the water, covered in snow. It will be one of the backgrounds included with OS X Mountain Lion, to be released this July. We’ve found out a bit about the photographer responsible for this particular work… Read More
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