PHOTO OF THE DAY March 24, 2005  

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Where Beijing, China
When 1997
Photographer Macduff Everton

Trees line the edge of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing. The palace boasts the largest imperial garden in China, covering over 716 acres (290 hectares) of land.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in "Heart of the Celestial Empire," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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