PHOTO OF THE DAY October 30, 2005  

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Where Inishmore island, Aran Islands, Ireland
When 1993
Photographer Sam Abell

Cows graze beside some of the hundreds of miles of stone walls that crisscross Inishmore. The walls mark field boundaries and also serve a double purpose as well—farmers needed somewhere to pile the stones they had to remove from their rock-strewn fields in order to farm.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)


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