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DSC02583 - Crowded Street at the Kumbh Mela Hindu Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Crowded street on the main bathing day, 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 day 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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DSC06499 - Bat Colony Flying Out of Deer Cave by Loupiote

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Millions of bats fly out of Deer Cave every evening - Mulu (Borneo)

In the evening, bat colonies fly out of the cave, forming long, undulating snake-like swarms in the sky. The mesmerizing event lasts for about half an hour, just before sunset.

Deer Cave is home to about 4 million Wrinkle Lipped Bats that live in colonies high up in the cave ceiling. Every evening all the bats fly out in huge swarms and clouds to feed.

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

View my video of this swarm of bats.

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DSC01663 - Naga Sadhu and his Camp Fire in Varanasi (India) by Loupiote

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Naga Sadhu on a Ghat in Varanasi (India).

Also called Naga babas, those sadhus (acetic Hindu monks) are wanderers with no possessions. Their "home" is just a small wood camp fire.

For more info on Sadhus, go to:

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadhu

- or this less serious article www.gonomad.com/951-smokin-sadhus-indias-wandering-stoned...

For more info about Naga [naked] Sadhus, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashanami_Sampradaya.

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

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DSC01924 - Clay Shiva Lingam's Offerings Ceremony - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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

View more photos of this ceremony.

If you know the name of this Hindu ceremony, please post a Comment!

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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DSC01973 - Man with Big Smile - Burning Man 2015 by Loupiote

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Man with a big smile.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2015 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC00204 - Lumiang Cave - Sagada (Philippines) by Loupiote

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Exploring Lumiang cave - Sagada (Philippines)

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DSC09807 - Woman with Blond Mohawk by Loupiote

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Melody - How Weird Street Faire (San Francisco)

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DSC06611 - Man Wearing Fur - Up Your Alley Fair (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Fur - Dore Alley - Up Your Alley Fair (San Francisco)

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DSC01122 - Green Jeepney (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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DSC09495 - Ram Jhula Suspension Bridge over Ganges River in Rishikesh (India) by Loupiote

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Ram Jhula is one of the pedestrian suspension bridges over Ganges river in Rishikesh (India)

For more info about the Ram Jhula bridge, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Jhula.

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DSC07939 - burning man 2008 - Mutopia giant metal flowers by Flaming Lotus Girls by Loupiote

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Mutopia giant metal flowers by Flaming Lotus Girls - mutopia.wordpress.com/

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

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DSC07230 - Dia de los Muertos Procession (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Women with sugar skull makeup and candles at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2013.

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

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DSC06224 - Salt Flat - Salinas Grandes (Jujuy, Argentina) by Loupiote

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Salinas Grandes (Jujuy, Argentina)

This is is one of the largest salt flats (dry salt lake) in the world, located in northern Argentina, not far from the famous Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia).

For more photos and information, please read the album description.

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DSC02538 - Alua from Ghana - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Alua is from the African country of Ghana. She now lives in LA, and this was her first time at Burning Man. You can tell from her happy smile that she loved it!

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

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DSC04869 - Wheel Loader with Logging Fork Moving Tree Logs by Loupiote

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Machinery moving tree logs at a logging camp. Old growth rain forest is cut and logged to make room for oil-palm plantations (Borneo island)

This is a Caterpillar 966C Wheel Loader with logging forks.

View my other photos of Tree Logging and Deforestation.

Photo processed in HDR with Tone Mapping from a single RAW exposure.

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2338-burning-man-2005 - inner mind by gary stadler by Loupiote

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Girl playing with giant ball, with Inner Mind by Gary Stadler in the background.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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RNT06813 - Graffiti dans l'Abri Laval (Feuillantines) - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Graffiti phosphorescent dans l'Abri Laval (Abri des Feuillantines)

Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area), about 20 meters (60 feet) underground, under Paris city center.

This is a part of the 200 Km network of ancient tunnels not opened to the public, but regularly visited by trespassing urban cavers called "cataphiles". See more information in the album description.

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DSC09325 - Hindu Altar with Offerings (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu Offerings on an altar in an Ashram.

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.

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

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DSC09209 - Hindu Woman Sitting Near Mud Stove by Loupiote

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Woman sitting near her wood stove in her outdoor kitchen (India)

The stove is made of dry mud or clay, and she is burning dry weed.

This photo is part of a series that I took in a small rural Indian village.

For more info about this village and to view the other photos of this village, go to the photo album.

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DSC05873 - Bendición de San Francisco Solano - Humahuaca (Argentina) - 5 of 23 by Loupiote

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The benediction of San Francisco Solano in Humahuaca (Argentina)

In the village of Humahuaca, in Northern Argentina, every day at precisely 12-noon, on the city-hall bell-tower, heavy copper doors slowly open and a life-size animated wooden, dramatic-looking statue of San Francisco Solano appears for about two minutes and gives his benediction to the silent crowd amassed on the village plaza.

For more photos and information, read the album description.

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2192-burning-man-2005 - Giant Flower - miracle grow by patrick shearn and al by Loupiote

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Miracle Grow by Patrick Shearn and his team (see the Blossoming Consciousness Tribe)

This giant flower was one of the best art piece at Burning Man this year!

Check my other photos of Miracle Grow.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC02428 - Parade of Gurus - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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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.

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

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DSC09882 - Allahabad Fort - Boats on the Yamuna River (India) by Loupiote

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Pilgrims on row boats during the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu festival near Allahabad (India)

Thousands of pilgrims take small row boats to reach the Sangam, where they take the holy bath. The river boats go around the impressive Allahabad Fort which is just upstream from the Sangam.

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.

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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DSC04130 - Pyramid Ashram and Pontoon Bridge - 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).

In the back, a large Ashram in the shape of a pyramid.

If you know the name of the Pyramid Ashram, please post a Comment!

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 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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DSC06918 - White Wolf Costume by Loupiote

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White Wolf Costume

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

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DSC03745 - Man with Red Lipstick - Folsom St Fair 2012 by Loupiote

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Man with red lipstick and red lips headpiece. His name is Fadi Okalillan.

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

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DSC03288 - Stone Angel - Recoleta Cemetery (Buenos Aires) by Loupiote

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Statue of Angel - Recoleta Cemetery (Buenos Aires)

The expression of this angel is so intense that i stayed a long time staring at it.

For more information about La Recoleta cemetery, read the album description.

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cd2-007_5a - burning man 2003 - Human Hamster Wheel by Loupiote

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Giant human hamster wheel on the Playa. Or is it called a guinea pig wheel?

I don't think it qualifies to be called an Art Car.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2003 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC03835 - Man Holding Pet Corn Snake - Folsom Street Fair by Loupiote

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Pet corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus guttatus), also called red rat snake.

For more info about Corn Snakes, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_snake

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

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DSC01101 - Indian Groom with Fringes Hat at his Wedding (India) by Loupiote

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Indian groom at his wedding in Rishikesh (India)

The groom is wearing the traditional Indian wedding costume with bank notes attached. He was riding a decorated horse in the street.

If you know the name of this type of hat with fringes, please post a Comment!

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DSC19521 - burning man 2007 - Smoking a hookah in center camp by Loupiote

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If you have contact information for the people in this photo, please email me, i might need to get their model release, thanks!Smoking a hookah in center camp

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

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6596 - vietnam - Mien Yao/Dao tribe woman by Loupiote

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Mien Yao/Dao tribe woman (Mèo Vac, Vietnam)

The teeth covered with gold-like metal indicate that this woman is married. It's convenient: as soon as the woman or teenage girl smiles, you know if she is single or not! Girls from ethnic minorities (i.e. tribes) marry at about 14 or 15 years of age.

See more smiles with golden teeth!.

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DSC06931 - Railroad Workers Monument - Uyuni (Bolivia) by Loupiote

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One of the many railroad monuments in Uyuni (Bolivia).

The worker is holding a wrench and a train steam engine wheel.

Uyuni used to have the largest train yard in Bolivia, at the time where steam trains were a primary mode of transportation. Now the train lines in Bolivia are falling into disrepair and few trains still run (very slowly) on the old tracks. The Uyuni train yard is mostly abandoned, and Railroad Monuments like this one all around the city are reminders of its glorious railroad past.

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DSC01937 - Abandoned Train Station - Petite Ceinture - Abandoned railway (Paris, France) by Loupiote

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Abandoned Train Station

The "Petite Ceinture" or "PC" (Small Belt) is an abandoned railway line in the city of Paris (France).

The PC circles around Paris, hence the name "Small Belt". It was used for metro-type passenger trains until 1934. Since then, it is completely abandoned, made obsolete by the new underground metro lines, but most of the rails, tunnels and stations still exist. The PC mostly runs in trench or overpasses, with a few tunnel segments.

A classic destination for Parisian graffiti artists and urban explorers! Of course, this is a NO TRESPASSING area, and the Police Ferroviaire (Railway Police) occasionally writes hefty tickets to trespassers.

Check my other photos of railways.

For more photos and information about this abandoned railway line, please go to my Petite Ceinture photo album.

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DSC01915 - Clay Shiva Linga's Hindu Offerings in Trays - Procession - Ceremony - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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

View more photos of this ceremony.

If you know the name of this Hindu ceremony, please post a Comment!

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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DSC01933 - KLR 650 Motorbike Crash on Dirt Road by Loupiote

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My KLR 650 motorbike decided to take a nap!

The motorbike does not have a scratch, but I cracked two ribs in the mishap. My friend was ok with minor scratches.

The hard part is always to put the heavy bike back on its wheels.

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DSC09015 - Burning Man 2009 - Giant Eggs on Truck Trailer - Ménage à Trois - Mosaic by Loupiote

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Ménage à Trois (Menage a Trois) by Rob Buchholz and crew

The three giant mosaic eggs are going home on a truck trailer.

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

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DSC01241 - burning man 2007 - Crude Awakening by Loupiote

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Crude Awakening, by Dan Das Mann, Karen Cusolito, Black Rock FX, MarkPerez, Pyrokinetics, Nate Smith and MonkeyBoy - see www.headlesspoint.com/crude_awakening/

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

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RNT06773 - Skull Sculpture - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Skull Sculpture

Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area), about 20 meters (60 feet) underground, under Paris city center.

This is a part of the 200 Km network of ancient tunnels not opened to the public, but regularly visited by trespassing urban cavers called "cataphiles". See more information in the album description.

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RNT06655 - Etched Stone Plates - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Rue jacques côté du couchant - 262 - Municipalité du XIIeme arrondissement

Etched Stone Plate indicating the location.

Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area), about 20 meters (60 feet) underground, under Paris city center.

This is a part of the 200 Km network of ancient tunnels not opened to the public, but regularly visited by trespassing urban cavers called "cataphiles". See more information in the album description.

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DSC07348 - Be Gentle on my Curve - Road Sign (India) by Loupiote

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"Be Gentle on my Curves" road sign on mountain road (India)

The last "s" is missing!

Road sign from BRO (the Border Roads Organisation), that built the mountains roads and bridges between West Bengal and Sikkim, as part of "Project Swastik".

For more info about the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Roads_Organisation.

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DSC09272 - Muslim Men Waving Flags on Truck Roof - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Young Muslim men waving flags on truck roof at the Milad-un-Nabi parade. The smoke is from firecrackers.

This is the celebration of Eid-Milad-un-Nabi, Prophet Muhammad's Birthday. Milad un-Nabi, also known as Nabi Day and Mawlid, is a gazetted holiday in India.

It is the occasion of large street parades and other festivities by the Muslim male population (Muslim women are not allowed to participate in those public festivities).

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

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DSC03024 - Caterpillar MP30 Concrete Pulverizer Jaws by Loupiote

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Caterpillar MP30 Concrete Pulverizer Jaws - Caterpillar 385C Ultra High Demolition Excavator - Building Demolition - PHSH - Abandoned Hospital (Presidio, San Francisco)

This development project is called Presidio PHSH Adaptive Reuse Housing.

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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DSC06829 - Burning Man 2009 - Soma - Giant neuron by the Flaming Lotus Girls by Loupiote

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Soma, created by the Flaming Lotus Girls, captures the essence of a neuron. Spinning balls of fire act as nuclei within the dodecahedron cell bodies. Dendrites extend up into the sky and reach down to the earth, emitting constant flame and color changing light. Along her axon, extend eighteen individually controlled fire effects across the stainless steel arch with sequenced LEDs on the underside.

For more information about this art installation, go to www.flaminglotus.com/

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

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DSC00521 - Floating Bridge over the Ganges River at 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.

In the back, the large pyramid is an Ashram, made of bamboo and straw.

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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7735 - cooked dog by the pound by Loupiote

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Dog meat sold on the market (Lang Sơn, Vietnam)

This photo is part of a series called Thịt chó: eating a (hot) dog. A lots of interesting comments and reactions have been posted on the various photo sites where this series has been published.

WARNING: These images are graphic, not suitable for kids and people with a weak stomach!

Western culture considers that eating a dog is cruel, barbaric and disgusting (not illegal, though), but ironically we have no problem eating all other sorts of animals as long as they are not called pets.

But for the vast majority of people on earth, cultural values are very different. Dog meat is considered a delicacy in some asian cultures, and indeed cooked dog meat is very tasty and protein rich. You should try it some day! (if you are not vegetarian)

"Food dogs" are not pets and they have no names. They are bred and raised in farms, just like pigs, cows, lambs, chickens and other farm animals. They are usually put down "humanely" just like any other farm animal, by slitting the throat and bleeding the animal until it passes out.- However some disturbing cases of food dogs being tortured before being slaughtered have been documented.

This series of photos shows the process involved in preparing a dog for dinner, from slautering to cutting-up, eviscerating, de-boning, cooking and of course eating! These photos were taken in Bac Ha, a small town in the Northern part of Vietnam, and in various markets of the region.

In case you are wondering, I did not order the dog for dinner, I just stumbled on the scene in the street and documented it, since I had my camera.

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09628-burning-man-2006 - Praying Mantis art-car by Loupiote

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Praying Mantis art-car

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

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DSC02364 - Suliman Nawid - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Fashion designer and model Suliman Nawid in the air at Center Camp.

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

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2498-burning-man-2005 - nicole in ball pit by Loupiote

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Nicole in the Ball Pit

Pall Pit by Colby Boles & Erin Usher (Black Rock City Animal Control)

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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DSC01113 - Jeepney doing U-Turn (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.

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