Robert Thompson / Tau emperor moth (Aglia tau) early instar caterpillar camouflaged against leaf. Falmenta, Cannobina Valley near Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. May.
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Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) at floating nest, Piedmont, Italy
Thomas Marent / Piedmont Ringlet (Erebia meolans) butterfly, Alps, Switzerland
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Kristel Richard / Six Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, race bareback in the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys gallop at full speed to win...
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1,200 participants in medieval costume taking part in the historical procession on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Each participant wears the colours representing a...
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1,200 participants in medieval costume taking part in the historical procession on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Each participant wears the colours representing a...
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Kristel Richard / Il Capitano del Gruppo del Commune (the captain of the group of the communes), dressed in white and red, opens the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / One of the Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, takes part in the single trials on the Friday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. All the jockeys ride bareback, Sep...
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Kristel Richard / One of the Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, takes part in the single trials on the Friday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during th...
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Kristel Richard / Il Capitano del Gruppo del Commune (the captain of the group of the communes), on the grey horse, and his riders, all dressed in white and red, open the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Ast...
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Kristel Richard / Three Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take part in the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during these tr...
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Kristel Richard / Four Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take part in the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during these tri...
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Kristel Richard / Five Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, race bareback in the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1,200 participants in medieval costume taking part in the historical procession on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Each participant wears the colours representing a...
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Kristel Richard / Three Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take part in the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during these tr...
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Kristel Richard / Six Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, gallop off at the start of the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys gallop at full spe...
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Kristel Richard / Six Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, race bareback in the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1,200 participants in medieval costume taking part in the historical procession on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Each participant wears the colours representing a...
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Kristel Richard / The start of the Palio is always difficult as the nine participating Fantini (jockeys) have to be perfectly aligned behind the cord. The Palio, the oldest registered Palio in Italy, takes place on the...
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Kristel Richard / Each Parish church participating in the Palio blesses one horse and a jockey on the Sunday of the Palio, at 10am, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Here, the Parish church of San Secondo, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / Seven Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take it easy at the start of one the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The cord which is le...
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Kristel Richard / Five Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, race bareback in the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1,200 participants in medieval costume taking part in the historical procession on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. Each participant wears the colours representing a...
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Kristel Richard / Five Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take part in the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during these tri...
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Kristel Richard / One of the 1200 participants in the Sfilata (parade), dressed in medieval costume and mounted on a Friesian horse, arrives in Piazza San Secondo, on the Sunday just before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, I...
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Kristel Richard / Two Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, take part in the team trials on the Saturday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during these tria...
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Kristel Richard / Six Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, gallop off at the start of the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / Two of the Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, takes part in the single trials on the Friday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during th...
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Kristel Richard / Il Capitano del Gruppo del Commune (the captain of the group of the communes), dressed in white and red, opens the Palio, on the third Sunday of September, in Asti, Piedmont, Italy, September 2009
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Kristel Richard / One of the Fantini (jockeys), in the colours of a particular district of Asti, takes part in the single trials on the Friday before the Palio, Asti, Piedmont, Italy. The jockeys take it easy during th...
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Bruno D'Amicis / Strinati's cave salamander {Hydromantes strinatii). Piedmont, Italy.
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Barry Mansell / Piedmont blue burrowing crayfish {Cambarus harti} USA.
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Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas) prey, Piedmont, Italy
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Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas) prey, Piedmont, Italy
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Alain Ghignone/ BIA / Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas) prey, Piedmont, Italy
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Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Piedmont prairie burrowing crayfish (Distocambarus crockeri) portrait, Marion Conservation Aquaculture Center, USA. Captive, originally from South Carolina.
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Gary Braasch / Photographer Gary Braasch sitting inside an ice cave in a terminus of the Marr Ice Piedmont, Anvers Island, Antarctica. January, 2000. This ice cave, which revealed the glacier's marble-like inte...
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Gary Braasch / Photographer Gary Braasch inspecting the inside wall of an ice cave in a terminus of the Marr Ice Piedmont, Anvers Island, Antarctica. January, 2000. This ice cave, which revealed the glacier's m...