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IMG_20190828_151956 - PlayAlchemist Pyramid - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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View from inside the PlayAlchemist Pyramid - playalchemist.com/ - johnkoltai.com/Burning-Man-Projection-Graphics

PlayAlchemist Pyramid was one of the largest structure on the playa, with beautiful video Projection Mapping on the pyramid surface by Light Harvest Studio.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC09764 - Color Contact Lenses by Loupiote

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Blue Color Contact Lenses - Devil - Ben

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

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DSC05903 - Woman Dancing - Folsom Street Fair (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Trans woman dancing.

Photo taken at the Folsom Street Fair 2013 (San Francisco).

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DSC03039 - Dancetronauts Art Car at Night - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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The Dancetronauts space shuttle art car.

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

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DSC07812 - burning man 2008 - The Lamplighters by Loupiote

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The Lamplighters procession on the playa.

For more photos and info about the Lamplighters, read the album description.

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

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DSC04642 - Lots of feathers flying at the Great San Francisco Pillow Fight 2009 by Loupiote

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Giant Pillow Fight (San Francisco)

This giant pillow fight is a flashmob-type event that takes place on Justin Herman Plaza (San Francisco) on Valentine's day (Feb 14) between 6 and 8pm.

For more photos and information about the Great San Francisco Pillow Fight, please read the album description.

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IMG_20190831_025433 - Gas Bubble Pool at Hooka Dome - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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Water, dish washing liquid (to make bubbles), and some propane pipe under the water. Bubbles get filled with natural gas and are flammable, and they can burn in your hands without burning your skin. Very fun installation at the Hooka dome.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00953 - Burning Man 2009 - The Temple is Burning by Loupiote

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The Temple is burning

Some wood petals start twisting, it will collapse soon.

Fire of fires by David Umlas, Marrilee Ratcliffe, Community Art Makers

For more information about this art installation, go to: communityartmakers.com/

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

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DSC09590 - Nanda Devi Mountain (India) by Loupiote

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Nanda Devi (7,816 m - 25,643 ft) is the second highest mountain in India and the highest entirely within the country. It is the 23rd highest mountain in the world.

This is a view from the Auli ski resort near Joshimath.

For more info about Nanda Devi, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanda_Devi.

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DSC03862 - Jessica Gonzales in my Grand-Uniforme Jacket by Loupiote

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My friend Jessica, who had never been to the Folsom St Fair before.

It was getting cold so I gave her my Ecole Polytechnique "Grand-Uniforme" dress jacket, and we did a small photo shoot in the street.

Female students at the Ecole Polytechnique actually wear a vest of different style. This is the men's uniform.

Photo taken at the Folsom Street Fair 2012 (San Francisco).

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DSC00744 - Scorpion Art Car - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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The Scorpion art car, by Mantis Entertainment.

For more info, go to mantisentertainment.com/projects/scorpion/

The giant scorpion art car, one of the mightiest thing on the playa this year. All claws and legs were articulated by hydraulics. But it seemed to have disappeared and i never saw it during the official Burning Man week, so it may have broken down. Someone said that the tail piece broke. It's too bad.

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

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DSC00930 - Mine Tunnel - Balatoc Mines (Philippines) by Loupiote

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The light at the end of the tunnel is in fact daylight!

Photo taken in the Balatoc mine, an active gold mine near Baguio (Philippines).

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DSC06742 - Mirror Heart by Loupiote

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Heart shape mirror

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2010 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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IMG_20190828_002133 - Spinning a Light Wire - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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Spinning a light wire (maybe optic fiber).

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC02080 - Glowing Spiky Inflatables - Art Car - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Art car with glowing inflatables.

If you know the name of this art car, please post a comment!

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

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DSC01150 - Yellow Jeepney at Jeepney Station (Philippines) by Loupiote

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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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DSC00529 - Kandi Kid - Erin by Loupiote

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Candy raver Erin -

Photo taken at the San Francisco LoveFest 2008.

A Kandi Kid is commonly called a "Candy Raver", "Candee Child" or "Kandi Raver".

For more information about Kandi Kids, read the album description.

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DSC04067 - Polynesian Dance Performance by Kazbus Kamp Crew - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Polynesian dance performance by the crew of the Kazbus art car, from Kazbus Kamp, with its Moroccan city scape decoration.

Lisa and her crew is doing a traditional Tahitian dance, wearing traditional Tahitian headdress, shells, and lava lava.

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

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DSC05792 - Prayer Flags on the Bodnath Stupa - Boudhanath - Kathmandu (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Tibetan prayer Flags on the Bodnath Stupa in Kathmandu (Nepal)

The ancient spherical Bodnath Stupa, officially called Boudhanath, located about 11 km North-East of Kathmandu, is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world.

For more info about the Bodnath Stupa, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudhanath.

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09362-burning-man-2006 - Inside Uchronia by Loupiote

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Uchronia (aka the Belgian Waffle) by The Uchronians.

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2006 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC01244 - El Pulpo Mecanico - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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El Pulpo Mecanico was one of the coolest art car this year.

The huge flame-throwing articulated metal octopus is built out of mostly scrap metal. The mechanical octopus was designed and created by artist Duane Flatmo and the spectacular fire effects and electrical systems were created by Steve Gellman.

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

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

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DSC07708 - Living Root Bridge in East Khasi Hills (India) by Loupiote

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Jingmaham living root bridge near Mawlynnong in the East Khasi Hills, in Meghalaya (India)

When I took these photos, it was the dry season and there was very little water in the river, so it could also be crossed by walking over the rocks.

For more photos and information about those amazing living root bridges, go to:

- My Living Root Bridges album.

- Timothy Allen's blog

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DSC06243 - Deer Cave - Gunung Mulu National Park (Borneo) by Loupiote

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Deer Cave in Gunung Mulu National Park (Borneo)

Deer Cave is a passage about 150 m (500 feet) in diameter and about 1 Km (0.6 Miles) long, opened on both end. It was, for many years, considered the largest single cave passage in the world.

For more photos and information about Deer Cave, go to my Deer Cave photo series.

Photo processed in True Tone HDR with Tone Mapping from 3 RAW exposures.

Unfortunately the photo has quite a lot of digital noise, because i did not have a tripod high enough, so i had to take all 3 exposures hand-held at high ISO. The HDR processing also tends to increase the noise. If i could have used a tripod to get low-ISO long exposures, this photo would have been outstanding. It's one the best photo of Deer cave that i have seen so-far.

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DSC03151 - RC Heli shooting Aerial Video - Copter Kids - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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A remote controlled helicopter with a remote controlled video camera was shooting aerial footage of Burning Man for a documentary.

The high-tech electrical RC Heli belongs to Copter Kids, a small company that specializes in shooting aerial footage from Remote Controlled helicopters, which is much cheaper than using a real helicopter and allows close shots and fast motions that cannot be done with full-size helicopters. Their equipment is fully customized and electrically powered, with for very low-noise operation. Their Heli can fly for about 8 min on a Lithium battery. One person pilots the Heli, and another person controls the camera, which broadcasts real-time video to a monitor on the ground.

For more info, check out their website at copterkidsllc.com.

For the Burning Man rules about using drones at the event, go to: burningman.org/event/black-rock-city-guide/drones/.

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

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DSC01068 - Panorama of the Tehri Dam and Lake (India) by Loupiote

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Panorama of the Tehri dam (India)

Looks amazing in high resolution.

The Tehri dam is the highest dam in India and one of the highest in the world.

It is hard to imagine that right there, on this photo, deep under the lake, just at the bottom on the dam, there is a submerged city (Tehri, now called "Old Tehri") that was the provincial capital, with a population of about 25,000. The people from Old Tehri have been relocated to New Tehri, a planned city built on the mountain above the dam.

The Tehri Reservoir (the lake on the left) now fills-up a large part of the Bhagirathi valley, one of the headstreams of the Ganges.

The Tehri Dam was (and still is) a very controversial project, as it flooded two valleys resulting in the destruction of numerous villages and a town (Tehri), all now submerged, and forced the relocation of about 100,000 people.

For more photos and info about the controversial Tehri Hydro Power project, go to the Tehri Dam & Lake photo series.

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Dubai Palm Islands Aerial - Google Earth by Loupiote

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Dubai Palm Islands Aerial - Google Earth

Those are the amazing Dubai artificial "Palm Islands". Not sure it's good use of the earth resources needed to build them, but it looks cool.

The investment company that owns those has been in the news recently, because they are basically going bankrupt before completion of the project, causing turmoil in the financial world.

And also they are a little bit worried that it will be under water soon with Global Warming.

For more information about the Dubai Palm Istands, go to www.2daydubai.com/pages/dubai-palm-jumeriah.php , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Jumeirah

This photo is © Google Earth, used by permission (this overwrites any other copyright mention that may appear on this page)

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DSC04904 - Golden Carnical Mask by Loupiote

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My friend Savanna with her golden carnival mask and home-made feather earrings.

Photo taken at the 2012 How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

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DSC13652 - Barefoot Hindu Pilgrim Resting on Trail - Amarnath Yatra (pilgrimage) - Kashmir by Loupiote

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Barefoot Hindu pilgrim resting on Trail - Amarnath Yatra (pilgrimage) - Kashmir

For more photos and information about the Amarnath Cave, read the album description.

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DSC01152 - Green Jeepney on Parking Lot (Philippines) by Loupiote

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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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DSC00780 - Gunung Agung Volcano (Bali) by Loupiote

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Agung Volcano seen from Pura Lempuyang temple in Bali (Indonesia)

Mont Agung (a stratovolcano) is the highest volcano in Bali. I hiked to the summit via the Pura Pasar Agung trail.

For more information about the Agung Volcano, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Agung

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DSC07568 - Cable Riggers Installing Power Lines on Transmission Tower (India) by Loupiote

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Crew of cable riggers installing power lines on transmission tower (India)

It is a complicated operation that involves ropes, pulleys and a lot of workers. At the foot of the pylon, you can see large wheels of aluminium cables that will be used for the power lines.

One of the guys up in the tower is not wearing any safety harness!

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DSC02600 - Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur) by Loupiote

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The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

According to the CTBUH's official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 until surpassed by Taipei 101, but they remain the tallest twin buildings in the world.

They were designed by Argentine architect César Pelli.

For more information about the Petronas Twin Towers, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Towers.

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DSC00564 - Glowing Art Car - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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In the back, the Temple, not yet fully constructed (the pointy top of the tower is still missing).

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

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IMG_20190830_225717 - Inside Cone Down - Cable Ladder - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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Cable ladder inside the ice cream cone.l

This was a very scary and dangerous adder to climb, giving access to a platform at the top.

The installation is called Cone Down, by Josh Zubkoff. See www.kickstarter.com/projects/jazlink/cone-down-burning-ma...

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC01941 - Clay Shiva Lingam's Offerings - Procession - Hindu Ceremony - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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Shiva Lingams Hindu Ceremony, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

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This is a Hindu offering ceremony to Lord Shiva, performed by members of a large Ashram at the Kumbh Mela festival.

Thousands of Hindu devotees each made hundreds of small lingams with soft clay, each lingam having three small white eyes. Then they all walked in a procession from the Ashram toward the nearby Ganges river, carrying trays on their heads, with all the small clay lingams on the trays. All the lingams were then thrown in the Ganges river, as an offering to Lord Shiva.

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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DSC00866 - Installing the Giant Inflatable Moon - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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This is Lune (meaning "moon" in French), from an installation called "Lune and Tide".

The giant inflatable moon was hanging between two high metal masts on the playa for a day or so, then it disappeared. If you know what happened to it, please tell!

Word is that the original intent was for it to be inflated with helium and replicate the real full moon high in the sky. Apparently, there was a shortage of large supplies of helium this summer and they had to improvise to get this piece displayed. Looks like it didn't do too well in the wind in it's mooring.

Also I don't think that the contrast of the moon features was high enough. making it hard to see that this giant balloon was in fact the moon (I had not realized right away that that it was representing the moon, personally).

Laurence Symonds wrote:

This is Lune, from our piece Lune and Tide. It was indeed supposed to be filled with helium and anchored from below. Due to the global shortage of helium last summer, we had to improvise at the very last minute and decided to fill it with air and suspend it from above.

Unfortunately our improvised attachments at the top of the balloon weren't quite strong enough and the balloon ripped free on Tuesday afternoon in a particularly windy patch. About 10 people helped wrestle it to the ground before it could blow across the playa, taking out anything in between. Inside the outer printed balloon is another smaller balloon that has 400m of coloured LEDs. We had a control panel on the ground that was designed to have people be able to change the phase of the moon. Unfortunately we didn't have to opportunity to see it fully in action, but we are hoping to repair it and exhibit it at a burning man in the future

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

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DSC08208 - Sheep Balls (India) by Loupiote

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I took this photo at a cattle market I stumbled upon on the road in West Bengal (India).

All the local farmers were there to buy and sell livestock (often young animals).

When you buy a male, it is important to check that the animal testicles are well formed. The farmer was showing me that his male sheep had really good balls!

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DSC03098 - Old Man Adjusting His Prosthetic Leg (India) by Loupiote

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Old man adjusting his prosthetic leg 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.

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

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DSC02541 - Guru and his Devotees on Top of Jeep - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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

This was 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.

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

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DSC00281 - Adit to Tail Race Tunnel - Loharinag-Pala Hydro Power Project (India) by Loupiote

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This is an adit to the tailrace tunnel, part of the abandoned and unfinished Loharinag-Pala Hydro Power Project on the Bhagtrathi river (one of the headstreams of the Ganges river).

View photo inside this tunnel.

View photo of the end of this tunnel, which is flooded.

For more info about the Loharinag-Pala Hydro Power Project, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loharinag_Pala_Hydro_Power_Project.

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DSC05904-v3 - Total Solar Eclipse - Sun's Corona - March 9 2016 - Indonesia by Loupiote

This is a photo of the total solar eclipse of March 9 2016, that I took in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The whitish hair-like structure around the sun is called the "corona", and it is formed by the hot gas particles (plasma) ejected by the sun into space (eventually forming the "solar wind").

I used a regular DSLR camera (Sony A65) with a 300mm telephoto. No filter needed since this was taken during the moment of "totality", when it is safe to look at the sun with the naked eyes.

During the totality, I took several photos with different exposure settings.

Initially I just processed this photo and this other one (both are single exposure).

Later, I processed all the good exposures I had to make an amazing image of this total solar eclipse.

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20242-burning-man-2006 - Playa flies by Loupiote

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Playa flies - see them in action!

Playaflies by Michael Brown and the Chinchilla camp.

Check my other photos of the Playa flies.

Playa flies are bicycle mounted color-morphing light sculptures. They are made of ping-pong balls attached to wires hanging from a flexible mast attached to a bicycle. The ping-pong balls contain color-morphing LED's similar to those used in the cubatron. There were a dozen bicycles equipped like that on the playa.

See details at www.playaflies.com.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2006 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00524 - Pontoon Bridge over the Ganges River - Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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This is one of the 18 temporary pontoon bridges (i.e. floating bridges) installed during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

This pontoon bridge is over the Ganges (Ganga) river. Those floating bridges are built on top of large empty metal tanks, and are anchored to the river bottom with ropes on the upstream side of the bridge. Those bridges can support trucks up to 10 Tons, but to be safe, the maximum weight was set to 5 Tons. Those bridges are mostly used for pedestrian traffic. During high affluence periods when large crowds are crossing the floating bridges, bridges are one-way, with alternating direction for each other bridge. This rule was taken after a stampede in a previous year caused the bridge railing to fail and many people to fall in the river and drawn (most of the Hindu pilgrims cannot swim!).

The water was very low in the Ganges river at the time, so in fact this bridge was not floating, but just sitting on the sandy bottom of the shallow 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.

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

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4372 - abandoned war cemetery - Belogradchik (Bulgaria) by Loupiote

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An abandoned war cemetery near Belogradchik (Bulgaria)

This photo is part of my България - Bulgaria series.

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DSC00174 - Coffins in Lumiang Cave - Sagada (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Stacked coffins in Lumiang burial cave - Sagada (Philippines)

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DSC06818 - Pinnacles National Park (California) - Juniper Canyon Trail by Loupiote

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Juniper Canyon Trail in the Pinnacles National Park (California)

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DSC07636v2 - Prambanan Hindu Temple (Java) by Loupiote

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Photo taken at Prambanan, a 9th century Hindu temple complex located near Yogyakarta on Java Island (Indonesia).

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IMG_20190829_203754 - Disorient Art Car - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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IMG_20190829_205543 - Burning Man 2019 by Loupiote

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2019 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC04091 - BLM Police Officer on Slide - Burning Man 2013 by Loupiote

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Female BLM Law Enforcement Officer having fun on the escape slide under the Man's flying saucer base.

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

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