Sunbeam illuminating the green needles, in a shadowed pine plantation

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Sunbeam illuminating the green needles, in a shadowed pine plantation. Commercial Pine Plantations, mostly for the paper industry, were planted along the eastern Escarpment of South Africa, to compensate for the gold fields which ran dry in the 19th Century.

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Size: 3000px × 4000px
Location: Kaapsche Hoop, South Africa
Photo credit: © Marieke Peche / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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