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Cataphile légendaire "Bacchus" - Famous Paris Catacombs Urban Caver.

 

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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Voutes de la Salle Z (Secteur du Val-de-Grâce).

 

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

 

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Young girl walking on a slack rope in an small street circus performance.

 

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

 

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

 

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Snake handler holding Cobra at the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu festival near Allahabad (India)

 

Behind the snakes eye you can see the scar where the fangs and venom glands were surgically removed.

 

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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This water hose is the only source of clean water in the area, and it is used by all the people living in shanty houses around the Daraganj road bridge.

 

The big concrete yellow thing is a pillar of the road bridge.

 

Photo taken in Daraganj during 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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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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Rooftop Solar Panels on my house (San Francisco)

 

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Camp Crew Assembling a Geodesic Dome

 

I believe that this is the Sukkat Shalom camp.

 

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

 

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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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A Trench Digger is used for installing electrical wires between multiple art installations.

 

In the back, one of the Zomes of Zonotopia, by Rob Bell and crew -

 

For more info, go to zonotopia.com/

 

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

 

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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.

 

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Men returning home in the back of a truck, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

 

They will probably have a long an uncomfortable journey back home.

 

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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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!

 

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Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 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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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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Unidentified male beheaded in car accident - Forensic Medicine Museum, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok (Thailand)

 

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Makay and Tank-girl - Dia de Los Muertos (San Francisco)

 

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2008.

 

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

 

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Cow dung drying in a field. In rural India, dried cow dung is used as fuel and as building material. Cow dung is also called gobar.

 

I saw this on an Indian website: "Anyone who has eaten chapaties (flat bread) cooked on a gobar fire can testify how this fuel enhances their taste".

 

Photo taken from the window of a train between Delhi and Lucknow.

 

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One of the spheres from Swarm, by Michael Prados - see www.orbswarm.com/I totally love the way the blue light draws a spider image on the playa. I don't think this was intended.

 

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

 

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Hindu pilgrims taking Holy bath in Ganges river, 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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Fresques du Dragon - Baptême des promotions de l'École des Mines de Paris.

 

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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Stone tiger over elephant at the Konark Sun Temple (India)

 

The smiling mustachioed stone tiger is overpowering an elephant.

 

There are two on those stone tigers guarding the stair that leads to the Temple,

 

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

 

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Delicious street food served in leaves plates.

 

The plates are made of dried leaves stitched with some toothpick-like sticks. They are completely biodegradable.

 

Sadly, some food stands in India now start serving food in Styrofoam plates and cups that people throw away on the street, since that is what they are used to do (trash collection and recycling is virtually non-existent in rural India).

 

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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It is quite normal in Asia to be more than 2 people on a motorbike (i have often seen up to 5 people!).

 

This is my friends Pierro with Bun Bun (Chelsea), and Wojtek, riding a Royal Enfield "Bullet" motorbike at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival, near Allahabad (India).

 

I ended up using this motorbike for the rest of my trip in India and Nepal.

 

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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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.

 

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Stampede around the burning Man

 

Found this interesting news clip:

 

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Black Rock City (AP) - After the early torching of the Burning Man festival signature figure by an arsonist, the Burning Man Organization decided that all future copies of the "Man" would be made in China and shipped to Nevada.

 

"We already purchase all our fireworks from China", said Larry Harvey, one of the co-founders of the Burning Man festival. "So it made sense to outsource the Man too."

 

"Chinese-built copies of the 40-foot tall Man will cost us about 10 times less than domestic copies, and this will save us a lot of green stuff", Harvey explained, referring to this year’s "Green Man" theme.

 

"The Chinese Man will be 100% identical to the domestic version, very combustible and based on the same original blueprints from my good friend John Law. We don't expect any lead poisoning problems", Harvey added.

 

There has been rumors that the significant cost saving will permit the festival organization to burn a copy of the Man every night of the week, which some see as environmentally questionable as well as a disguised way to prevent any future early torching of the figure.

 

The first batch of Chinese-made Man is expected to ship early august 2008, and there are currently no plans to make Chinese copies available to the general public, although this is being discussed in the organization.

 

On the Net: www.burningman.com

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

 

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Kinetic Steam Works' Case traction engine Hortense

 

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

 

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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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Containers on semi truck. That's how all the equipment of the large camps arrive. Parts of the playa look like a container terminal.

 

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

 

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Karina, age 13, performing traditional dance

 

Check-out a video of this show.

 

Hare Krishna "Festival of India", also called "Chariot Festival" (San Francisco)

 

For more info on this event, check-out www.festivalofindia.org.

 

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If you can identify the exact species of crab, please post a comment or email me!

 

This is a mud crab, also called mangrove crab, part of the Scylla species of swimming crabs. They have particularly large and powerful claws, so be careful!

 

I found this crab at the fish market in Kota Kinabalu (Borneo)

 

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Fresque - Baptême des promotions de l'École des Mines de Paris

 

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

 

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Rue St Jacques au dessus de la porte de l'observatoire.

 

Etched Stone Plate indicating the location.

 

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

 

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Indian woman drying her sari in the wind after having her Holy Bath in the Ganges river, in the Hindu Holy city of Varanasi (India)

 

This was on the sandy beach on the bank of the Ganges river, across from the Ghats. It is a popular spot for the Hindu pilgrims to take their Holy Dip.

 

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

 

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

 

This was January 27 (a full-moon night, called Paush Purnima), one of the most auspicious days for taking the holy bath.

 

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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PAC 750XL Skydiving Aircraft: My ride! That was the plane used by the skydivers at the Burning Man Festival. See www.burningsky.org for more info on skydiving at Burning Man.

 

You can find more infos about this aircraft on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC_750XL

 

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

 

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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.

 

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Men washing a huge cooking pot in an Ashram at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

 

Each Ashram has a communal kitchen where they cooks rice, dal and other strictly vegetarian food for dozens of Hindu pilgrims every day.

 

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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This was at the "Rainbow Camp", a Hippie camp set-up at the northern edge of the Kumbh Mela festival ground. The camp was organized by a Rasta Yogi man called "Panama Baba", and all non-Hindu travelers were welcome there.

 

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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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.

 

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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Older native american man at Center Camp.

 

He came from Arizona, if I remember well, and has been at Burning Man several times before.

 

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

 

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Rhinopoma bat hanging on cave ceiling.

 

Spotted in the Palace Ruins in Mandu (India)

 

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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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Suliman Nawid with his Blue Matador costume.

 

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2010.

 

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

 

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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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If you know the name of this art car or have contact information for the artist, please email me, thanks!

 

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

 

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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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SFPD Police cracking-down and arresting many peaceful revelers during the Bay to Breakers footrace festival. It did not appear that the people they arrested were drunk or causing any trouble. They got arrested just because they were partying in the street. Police apparently had orders to crack-down on all festivities on city streets at the 2011 Bay to Breakers race.

 

SFPD Police did not arrest people that were partying on Park land (Pan handle and Golden Gate Park). I suppose that the rules for arresting people on Park property are a bit different.

 

Photo taken at the 2011 Bay to Breakers footrace and street festival (San Francisco).

 

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This water hose is the only source of clean water in the area, and it is used by all the people living in shanty houses around the Daraganj road bridge.

 

The big concrete yellow thing is a pillar of the road bridge.

 

Photo taken in Daraganj during 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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