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"Onyx Tempest." Discovery of the Year (Gold Category Winner) - Animals. In Onyx Tempest, I wanted to capture the intensity of a Friesian skidding into a sharp turn. The backlit dust, flying mane, and ...

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A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

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