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Hot Shots- August 2015

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Allan Jack took this photo of young robins waiting for their mother to get back with food.

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Gary Yarbrough took this photo while fishing at sunrise on Lake Erie during a vacation in Huron, Ohio.

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Nope, it's not a hot dog on that rock. It's a big slug spotted by Gary Rubis at his home in Houston.

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Allan Jack captured this seagull taking flight in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

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Courtney Saniga took this photo of a butterfly on a purple coneflower at her cousin Chuck Sabatini's home in Cokeburg.

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Nicole Dalnoky took this photo of the fireworks after a recent Pittsburgh Pirates game.

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Terrence Main spotted this approaching storm while taking an early morning break from his job as a baker at the Shop 'n Save in Canonsburg.

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Nancy Tilley captured this view of the Heceta Lighthouse, atop a cliff along the Oregon coast.

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Stacy Nguyen took this photo of Daniel Nguyen enjoying a spectacular sunrise in Allenspark, Colo.

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While vacationing recently at the Riu Playa Blanca resort near Rio Hato, Panama, Jeff Filby of Bridgeville took this photo of a hermit crab dodging waves on the beach.

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Rosemary Pavlovsky spotted this Japanese beetle munching on a leaf near the woods behind her home in Hickory.

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Joshua Lemon took this photo of a red-spotted newt outside a cabin in Grafton, W.Va. Joshua says the newts have four stages of life, can live for 12 to 15 years and have the same toxins as a poison dart frog.

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Tasha and Lucy Brooke enjoy a golden sunrise on the beach at Assateague Island National Seashore, off the Maryland and Virginia coast. The photo was taken by the twins' mother, Julie Brooke of Dormont.

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As hard as it might be to believe, there's a tennis court somewhere in this vegetation. Tom Northrop took the photo at a farm near Emmitsburg, Md.

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Brenda Maham took this close-up of a bumblebee she spotted while watering her plants.

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Stephen Ezarik came across this beautiful waterfall on a recent visit to Seven Springs Mountain Resort.

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While walking through Wildwood Park near Harrisburg, Jim and Brenda Moore of McMurray spotted this frog camouflaged by lake algae.

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Steven Pascoe took this photo of the colorful evening sky over the Smithfield Street Bridge in Pittsburgh.

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Beth Signorini spotted this elk munching on leaves while on a recent trip to Benezette.

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Kerry Pigeon used a macro lens to get this close-up of a daddy longlegs that was walking across leaves on her grapevines in Scenery Hill.

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Sheri Kahle took this photo of some of the bounty her summer garden has produced. She is growing 15 types of heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, carrots, beets, peas and strawberries.

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Susan Jennings took this photo of tent worms climbing down a tree.

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Katie Roupe/Observer-Reporter Kelsey Sidkick, Banquet Captain at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino, serves up a beer to George Seyfert of Clarksburg at the Corks and Kegs festival on Saturday, August 22. The event has beer and wine for sampling as well as purchasing and a variety of vendors, food and entertainment. Corks and Kegs runs through Sunday at 7 p.m. Admission is free to the event.

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JoAnn Ireland took this photo of a hummingbird approaching a feeder at her home.

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Brook Ward took this photo of the Moray Inca site near Cuzco, Peru.

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During a visit to Scotland, Kerry Pigeon of Scenery Hill took this photo of a Scottish Highland "hairy cow." She says the native Scots pronounce it "hairy coos."

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Karen Duke took this photo of a colorful summer sunset in Greene County through the trees in her backyard.

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Karen Duke sent us this photo of her son, Russell, and granddaughters, Mattie and Talia, jumping into a lake in the Sawtooth Mountain Range of Idaho during a recent camping trip. The photo was taken by Karen's daughter-in-law, Alicia.

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On a recent trip to Scotland, Kerry Pigeon of Scenery Hill took this photo of Edinburgh Castle.

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Fourteen-year-old Tyler Johnson took this photo at a reservoir in DuBois.

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Lauren Kelley, right, and Justin Larese, left, are married aboard surfboards by officiant Sonny Alejo, back to camera, during a sunrise ceremony in the Atlantic Ocean off Sandbridge, Va., as Lauren's father, Richard Kelley, looks on. Immediate family members watched from the beach. A formal ceremony was held later in the day on dry land for extended family and friends. Lauren is formerly of Eighty Four.

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