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Masked Girl

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Cable riggers installing power lines on transmission tower (India)

 

The guy with the red shirt is not wearing any safety harness! And he is at least 15 meter high.

 

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Participants are celebrating the burning of The Man's effigy at the end of the week-long festival.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Gabrielle's eye (better viewed in large size)

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Rusted truck on the playa.

 

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Fire Motorbike at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

 

The Indian Fire Department at Kumbh Mela had several of those Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycles equipped with up to 4 fire extinguishers and an oxygen tank. They provide faster access to a fire, given the sometimes very crowded streets of the festival ground, where driving a fire engine might not work well.

 

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

 

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Candy raver Jendoll - Gay Pride (San Francisco)

 

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View of the Temple structure, from the inside.

 

The Temple, by David Best and the Temple Crew.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Glowing palm trees art car.

 

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Monique in a provocative black punkish attire, with green and pink short hair.

 

And yes, she does have an identical twin sister!

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man Decompression Party 2012 (San Francisco).

 

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I installed a 9mm static rope at the upper window of the "Goldman Sucks" building, and went rappelling down the facade. I then let a few other rock climbers do it with my climbing harness.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Erotic stone carving at the Konark Sun Temple (India)

 

The Konark Sun Temple is famous for the thousands of stone sculptures of Maithuna (sexual union in a ritual context).

 

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Procession of the Mazu crew, an all-Chinese camp with amazing art and a Brazilian drum marching band.

 

The members of the Mazu camp were all Chinese, mostly from Taiwan, with some coming from Hong Kong and Mainland China (PRC, aka People's Republic of China).

 

For more photos and info about the Mazu crew, go to the Mazu photo album.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Winding road (Vietnam)

 

It was fun to drive it with a motorcycle!

 

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Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2016.

 

For more photos and more info on this event, please check out my Dia de los Muertos series.

 

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Danisa - Woman Dancing

 

Photo taken at the LovEvolution / Love Fest Festival (San Francisco).

 

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The Black Rock Lighthouse Service, by: Jonny and Max Poynton and the Lighthouse crew.

 

For more info about this installation, go to www.facebook.com/brlighthouse/.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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The burning of The Man's effigy and its base, the big flying saucer at the end of the week-long festival.

 

The base structure is still standing but most of its skin has burned, leaving just the frame. The charred Man's effigy is still standing on top of its base.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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The Pirate Ship sailing on the playa during a dust storm.

 

This art car is called The Pirate Ship, aka The Clock Ship Tere, by Andy Tibbetts.

 

For more info about this art car, go to www.facebook.com/ClockShip.

 

The Pirate Ship broke the axle of one of its rear wheels on the last day of the event.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Gurus parade at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

 

This was the morning of Kumbh Maha Snan or main bathing day, also called Mauni Amavasya, which is the the most auspicious morning for taking the holy bath in the Ganges river.

 

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

 

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Erin with hulahoops

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2007 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Golden Gate art car

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2008 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Cannabis grows everywhere, wild, just like weed! (Vietnam)

 

In this valley near Mèo Vac, Cannabis is endemic, i.e. it grows naturally everywhere, just like weed. It is not cultivated, it just grows as far as the eye can see, from the side of the road to the top of the hills.

 

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La Victrola is a giant gramophone.

 

For more info about this art installation, go to www.lavictrola2016.com/.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Helios by: Kate Raudenbush

 

For more info about this art installation, go to www.kateraudenbush.com/helios/.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Erotic stone carving at the Konark Sun Temple (India)

 

The Konark Sun Temple is famous for the thousands of stone sculptures of Maithuna (sexual union in a ritual context).

 

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The Star Wars character Boba Fett is a bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader to capture Han Solo.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Statue of Hindu Deities Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati, on the Ghats of Rishikesh (India)

 

The Ghats of Rishikesh is a sacred place for Hindu people, who come here to pray, make offerings and take a holy dip in the Ganges river.

 

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The Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH) is located in the Presidio of San Francisco. It has been rehabilitated into luxury condos housing in 2010, and it is now called "Presidio Landmark Apartments".

 

For more information about this place you can visit my PHSH page.

 

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Winged lion aka Guardino Leone, by Kevin Clark / Reared In Steel.

 

There were two such winged lions guarding the Man's base.

 

This is the same people who built Medusa Madness and the Rhino art car.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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The Black Rock Lighthouse Service, by: Jonny and Max Poynton and the Lighthouse crew.

 

For more info about this installation, go to www.facebook.com/brlighthouse/.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Mountain road carved in a rock cliff, in the Alaknanda valley, near Joshimath, in the Indian Himalayas.

 

In the background, the construction site of the Vishnu-Prayag Hydro Power Project power-house. You can see the tunnel adit that will bring the pressurized water to the power house. The dam is a few kilometers upstream, near Joshimath.

 

The Alaknanda river is one of the headstreams of the Ganges river.

 

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The burning of The Man's effigy at the end of the week-long festival.

 

As soon as the last burning beam collapsed, a crowd of thousands runs toward the fire and around it in celebration.

 

I managed to be one of the first ones near the fire (after zig-zagging between a few crowd-controlling Black Rock Rangers - sorry guys!), so i was able to get a few cool photos of the running melee.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Hindu devotees eating Holy Prasad at sunset, on the bank of the Ganges river.

 

Ashrams offer free Prasad food to all pilgrims. Prasad is usually dal and rice, served on a plate made of dried leaves.

 

For more info about Prasad (blessed Hindu food), read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasad.

 

Photo taken at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

 

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

 

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Steam Locomotive -#788 "Tusker" getting filled-up with water at the Darjeeling train station (India)

 

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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, locally known as the "Toy Train", is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling (India). It is still operated by vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia (view photos of the landslide).

 

For more info about the DHR steam locomotives, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHR_778_(locomotive) and www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/dhr-locos-full.html.

 

For more information about the Darjeeling Steam-powered Train, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway.

 

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Photo taken in Almora (India)

 

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Mountains panorama landscape view from the Auli ski resort near Joshimath (India)

 

Looks amazing in high resolution.

 

Most of those peaks are above 5000 m (16,400 ft).

 

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Jeepneys are a very popular type of public transportation in the Philippines.

 

Photo taken in Baguio, a regional capital in Luzon Island.

 

For more Jeepney photos and info, go to my Jeepney series.

 

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El Pulpo Mecanico, the fire breathing mechanical octopus.

 

For more info, go to www.elpulpomecanico.com/

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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The Lost Tea Party, by Alex Wright aka Wreckage International.

 

For more info about this mobile art installation, go to www.facebook.com/LostTeaParty/.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Hikers on the Caminito del Rey - El Chorro gorge (Spain)

 

The Caminito del Rey is a vertiginous and very dangerous trail attached to a vertical cliff in a canyon near El Chorro, in southern Spain.

 

For more photos and information about this place, read the album description.

 

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Sewu, an 8th century Buddhist temple complex located near Yogyakarta on Java Island (Indonesia).

 

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This little girl was performer in an itinerant family circus, that was performing their acts in a train.

 

Photo taken in a train between Delhi and Lucknow.

 

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Man with dragon leather puppet, at Center Camp Cafe.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Animated metal sculpture made of multiple massive interlocked steel rings moving and forming a sphere.

 

DISC-GO-SPHERE by Matthew Davis.

 

It was located not far behind the Man's base.

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2016 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Mumu at the Center Camp Cafe

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2009 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

Mumu "Mumito" Mariane Charline is a choreographer, circus performer and fire artist.

 

For more photos and information about Mumu, go to my Mumu Photo Series.

 

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Erotic stone carving at the Konark Sun Temple (India)

 

The Konark Sun Temple is famous for the thousands of stone sculptures of Maithuna (sexual union in a ritual context).

 

For more info about Maithuna, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maithuna.

 

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Hindu pilgrim coming out of the Lingaraja Temple in Bhubaneswar (India)

 

The Mustachioed stone tigers in the back are guarding the Temple door.

 

Lingaraja is a very Holy temple visited by thousands of Hindu pilgrims every day. Unfortunately, non-Hindu people are not allowed in the temple. The temple is more than 1100 year old and dedicated to Harihara, a form of Shiva.

 

For more info about the Lingaraja Temple, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingaraja_Temple.

 

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Road construction (Vietnam)

 

1) put some wood between the barrels of asphalt and start a fire so that the asphalt will melt and become liquid. If no wood is available, use anything that can burn, like old tires. Bonus points if you can burn something really toxic.

 

2) When the asphalt start melting, scoop some at the top and pour it on the wood. Asphalt burns well, so this will help melting the rest of the asphalt.

 

3) Repeat step 2 until the asphalt in entirely melted in the barrels. This will take several hours and produce a really nice plume of toxic smoke. If you are lucky, you will only need to burn 30% of your asphalt to melt the rest, so you have 70% asphalt left to spread on the road.

 

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Immense crowd of Hindu pilgrims gathering before dawn on the bank of the Ganges river, near the Sangam, during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India)

 

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

 

The Ganges river is on the left side of the photo, and the string of lights far-away on the left are on the other bank of the river.

 

This photo was taken around 6am, about one hour before sunrise. This was the early morning of January 27 (a full-moon night, called Paush Purnima), one of the most auspicious mornings for taking the holy bath. After a 7 km night walk, I arrived at the Sangam area at about 3am, early enough to be well positioned to take a few good photos in this gigantic crowd. The yellowish color is caused by the dim sodium-vapor street lights.

 

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

 

For more photos and info about the Kumbh Mela festival, read the album description.

 

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