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London From Above, at Night [PICS]

With the end of the Olympics in Beijing, all eyes turned for a moment to London, site of the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics. While looking for good photographs of London, I was contacted by London photographer Jason Hawkes, who had some wonderful images of... ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Aug 30 2008

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