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DSC09910 - Cable Foot Bridge - Monte Paterno Via Ferrata by Loupiote

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My friend Sabine looks at the ruins of a cable bridge over a deep chasm. This is a remnant of WWI military installations on Monte Paterno.

Monte Paterno via ferrata, Dolomites Mountains (Italian Alps).

Via Ferratas are climbing routes permanently equipped with a safety cable. For more info about via ferrata, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata.

For more info about Monte Paterno, go to it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Paterno.

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

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8722 - vietnam - Tactical Air Command by Loupiote

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Tactical Air Command (Army Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam)

This insigna was on one of US planes shot down during the war (Army Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam)

More information was provided by David de Botton, from www.F-111.net and co-author of "The Mighty Vark"

It is the F-111A vertical stab wreckage,of 67-0068 that was assigned to 429th TFS. Destroyed 22 December 1972 in South East Asia. Sixth CONSTANT GUARD V aircraft lost. Target in vicinity of Hanoi. Shot down after an assumed lucky shot to an engine gearbox. After a valiant escape and evasion lasting a few days, including a near rescue by a HH-53C (tail # 69-5788, call sign Jolly Green 73, from the 40th ARRS, NKP, Thailand, under heavy ground fire, the crew CAPT Bill Wilson and Bob Sponeybarger become P.O.

Ws. (POW REF# 1966-0-01 / -02). They were repatriated on 29 March 1973 (Library of Congress POW/MIA).

Callsign: JACKEL 33 (Jeff & Doc Servo). Module of this aircraft is reported to be in a research institute in Moscow.

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DSC00309 - Pilot Baba with Indian Army Soldiers - Poster at Kumbh Mela 2013 by Loupiote

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A large poster of Pilot Baba with a group of Indian Soldiers. "Pilot Baba" is a famous Hindu Guru who used to be a Pilot in the Indian Army. He was a Wing Commander in the Indian Air Force and fought in the ‘65 and ‘71 wars involving Pakistan.

He then decided to leave his military career and became a Mahayogi Guru, with numerous Ashrams across Northern India.

Pilot Baba had one of the largest and most luxurious Ashram at Kumbh Mela 2013. His Ashram included an indoor swimming pool, satellite WiFi, and air conditioned-room with European-style toilets for his international "guests" (mostly Russian and Japanese).

For more info about Pilot Baba, google him or go to his website: www.pilotbaba.org/.

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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DSC08773 - burning man 2008 - Black Rock City Fire Truck (with flame thrower!) - Sparky by Loupiote

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Black Rock City Fire Truck (with flame thrower!) - Sparky

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

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DSC01120 - Tristan Savatier - Selfie with Kid on Shoulder - Baby Goat by Loupiote

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That's me with a kid (i.e. a baby goat) on my shoulder, in Varanasi (India).

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

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DSC01828 - Chopper Bicycle - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Chopper bicycle near Center Camp.

The "Hoosier Daddy" bike was built by Al Brody, and he is riding it.

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

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DSC00627 - Containers on Semi Truck - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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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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DSC08580 - Burning Man 2009 - Giant Rooster Art Car by Loki by Loupiote

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Giant Rooster Art Car by Loki

For more information about this art car, go to www.giantcockcar.com.

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

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DSC04607 - Giant American Flag - Dolores Park (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Giant American Flag - Dolores Park (San Francisco)

Someone brought a giant american flag at Dolores Park. It was about the size of a football field, and lots of people started playing with it when the wind started blowing.

For more information about this giant flag, see flagproject.org/.

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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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DSC00386 - Manhole Cover - Shaft - Ladder - Catacombes de Paris - Catacombs of Paris (off-limit area) by Loupiote

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Getting out!

The manhole opens on a street sidewalk in the center of Paris. This is one of the secret access shafts to the off-limit underground network.

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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DSC05697 - Sailing Hydrofoil Catamarans - America's Cup 2013 Race (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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America's Cup 2013 two finalist hydrofoil catamarans "Oracle Team USA" and "Emirates Team New Zealand" racing neck and neck on the San Francisco Bay.

The sail of the AC72-class hydrofoil catamarans is a rigid wing made of carbon fiber. When hydro-foiling, those sailboats can go about twice as fast as the wind.

For more photos and info about the America's Cup race and the AC72-class hydrofoil catamarans, go to the album description.

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DSC09877 - No Entry Without Helmet - Army Sign at Allahabad Fort (India) by Loupiote

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Army sign at the Allahabad Fort. Strangely this sign is on a public street that leads to a boat landing and a police station, so it does not make much sense.

Photo taken during the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu 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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DSC09712 - Steel Ladder on a Cliff by Loupiote

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Ascending the via ferrata Tridentina, Dolomites Mountains (Italian Alps).

On the hardest passages, steel ladder steps and stemples are bolted to the vertical rock wall.

The climbing route involves ascending more than 2,500 feet (750m) of almost vertical cliff, equipped with cables and occasional metal ladders or steps.

Via Ferratas are climbing routes permanently equipped with a safety cable. For more info about via ferrata, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata.

For more info about the Brigata Tridentina via ferrata, go to it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrata_Tridentina.

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

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DSC01044 - Bihlangna River and Tehri Dam (India) by Loupiote

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The Bihlangna valley, in the back on the photo, is now flooded by the Tehri reservoir (India)

The Tehri dam (on the right) 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 artificial 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 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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DSC06627 - Steam Locomotives - Darjeeling (India) by Loupiote

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Steam locomotives at the Darjeeling train yard (India)

The two locomotives in the front (#788 "Tusker" and -#782 "Mountaineer") are warm and ready to work. One of them will be used to pull the next train, while a spare one is kept ready in case of last-minute problems with the main one. Because it takes hours to heat-up the steam boiler, the two steam engines must be warm and ready hours before the train is scheduled to leave. A railroad worker is staying up all night and feeding coal in their furnaces to keep both engines warm.

The locomotive in the back (#804 "Queen of the Hills") is undergoing maintenance.

View more photos of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

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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3359 - Turkish Tughra - Arabic Calligraphy - Shumen mosque (Bulgaria) by Loupiote

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Inscription - Shumen historical mosque (Bulgaria)

That is the seal of Ottoman Empires. It is neither completely Arabic, nor Persian, It is a combined language called "Osmanlica" in Turkiye, meaning something like Ottomanic.

This tughra must be Selim III's. The mosque in Shumen it is on was built in 1740-1744, and the only Ottoman sultan called Selim after that date was Selim III, who ruled from 1789-1807. The tughra's got more complicated as the years went on, the first, from the 14th century, were relatively simple. Apart from the sultan's name much of the calligraphy is symbolic and not words as such. For example, the two lines reaching out to the right are symbols for swords, and thus the military power of the sultan.

(I must give credit to Renal and Graham Spicer for the information about the tughra)

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Your Porn Is Watching You by KAILEY A

Porn watchers everywhere are being tracked, and if software engineer Brett Thomas is right, it would be easy to out them, along with an extensive list of every clip they’ve viewed. motherboard.vice.com/read/your-porn-is-watching-you

DSC02910 - Hijabs Shop Mannequin Heads (Borneo) by Loupiote

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Hijab Shop (Borneo)

This was at the weekend market in the village of Serikin, near the Indonesian border. Most vendors in this market are Muslims from Kalimantan (Indonesian part of Borneo), and they sell mostly islamic products to the muslim minority in Sarawak (a Malaysian state of Borneo)

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DSC02915 - Hijab Store - Store Dummies Head Display (Borneo) by Loupiote

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Hijab Shop (Borneo)

This was at the weekend market in the village of Serikin, near the Indonesian border. Most vendors in this market are Muslims from Kalimantan (Indonesian part of Borneo), and they sell mostly islamic products to the muslim minority in Sarawak (a Malaysian state of Borneo)

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DSC00497 - Aztec Dancer with Feathers - Dia de los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Aztec Dancer with Feathers - Dia de los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco)

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2009.

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

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DSC00596 - Alien Cats - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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Art installation in the deep playa.

The installation was called "Alien Cats" by Kathy D'Onofrio from Truckee, California. Kathy has been a Deep Playa installation artist for over a decade now.

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

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20878-burning-man-2006 - Collapsed Uchronia burning by Loupiote

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Uchronia burning

Uchronia (aka the Belgian Waffle) by The Uchronians.

Check my other photos of Uchronia!

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

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8614 - vietnam - Restaurant with view on the train track by Loupiote

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Restaurant with view on the train track (Hanoi, Vietnam)

Hưng Lâu (this is the restaurant name) - Lẩu sườn đặc biệt (special ribs soup)

This is the Hanoi-Saigon train line.

There are only a few trains running every day on this track (and they run slowly on this section), so most of the times, the track is used as if it was a regular street. This means that you'll find shops, farmers markets etc along the track.

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6709 - vietnam - Tribe girl with umbrella by Loupiote

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Tribe girl with umbrella (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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DSC05595 - Hindu Man Smoking Weed - Ritual Cannabis (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Baba (Hindu devotee) smoking a chillum of ritual cannabis at the Shivaratri Hindu festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu (Nepal).

During the Shivaratri festival (the 'Great Night of Shiva'), thousands of Hindu devotees and pilgrims gather at the Pashupatinath Temple to pray and celebrate Lord Shiva. Smoking holy Ganja is part of the ritual.

For more info about religious use of cannabis, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_spiritual_use_of_cann....

For more information and to see other photos of the Shivaratri festival and the Pashupatinath Temple, read the album description.

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DSC09177 - Little Girl (India) by Loupiote

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Cute little girl (India)

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DSC06120 - Japanese Bunny at Center Camp Cafe by Loupiote

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Her name is Elin Kawa

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

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DSC08775 - Young Caribbean Woman Wearing Coconut Bra - Choukaj - Carnaval Tropical (Paris) by Loupiote

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Choukaj is a traditional creole percussion and dance group from Guadeloupe Island (French West Indies). Check their website at facebook.com/choukaj/

Photos taken at the 2012 Carnaval Tropical in Paris.

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DSC01528 - Dragons - Burning Man 2012 by Loupiote

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The red dragon with a rose in his mouth was the decoration of my bicycle. The golden dragon in the back is the Abraxas art car.

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

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DSC06565 - Petrol Lamps by Loupiote

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The Petrol Lamps of the Lamplighters, lit-up and ready to be installed for the night.

The guy on the right is Timezone.

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

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

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7849 - Chinese Funeral Paper Effigies by Loupiote

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Those paper effigies and offerings are meant to be burned during traditional Chinese funeral ceremonies.

The paper offerings represent objects, animals or people that the deceased liked, and burning them ensures they will reach the deceased in the after-world.

I stumbled upon those in the back of a Chinese-owned gas-station in a remote village in northern Thailand.

For more photos and information, read the album description.

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DSC04536 - Overcrowded Boat on the Ganges River - Hindu Pilgrims (Varanasi) by Loupiote

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Overcrowded river boat on the Ganges river (Varanasi).

Hindu pilgrims take small boats like this one to cross the Ganges river and reach the beach on the other bank, to do the holy bath (also called holy dip).

Most of them cannot swim and there are no life jackets on those small boats, so if the boat were to capsize, many would die.

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

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20811-burning-man-2006 - The giant flowers say good-bye to Uchronia by Loupiote

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The giant flowers say good-bye to Uchronia

Hope Flower and Fear Trap by Patrick Shearn, Abundant Sugar and the DoLab (see the Blossoming Consciousness Tribe)

Uchronia (aka the Belgian Waffle) by The Uchronians.

Check my other photos of Uchronia!

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

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DSC04505 - Aerial View of Kumbh Mela 2013 festival (India) by Loupiote

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This aerial photo, taken at dawn, shows the Kumbh Mela ground toward the end of the event.

Most of the Hindu pilgrims have left. Camps and Ashrams are being taken down and infrastructure is being dismantled. It looks like a ghost town, and a few weeks later, nothing will remain. A couple of months later, the Ganges river will rise with the monsoon rains and this floodplain will be under about 10 feet of water.

All the street lights that can be seen in the far back are part of the Kumbh Mela "temporary city" built in the flood plain of the Ganges river, near Allahabad.

Kumbh Mela occupies about 56 Square Kilometers (22 Square Miles) of sandy ground in the Ganges floodplain. The "permanent" population is 5 to 10 Million Hindu devotees housed in thousands of temporary Ashrams and tent camps,

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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DSC00614 - burning man 2007 - Oobleck, a non-newtonian fluid made with cornstarch and water by Loupiote

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Oobleck, a non-newtonian fluid made with cornstarch and waterThe artists who created this installation are Alex, Mary, and Max.

Corn strarch and water (plus some optional green food coloring) creates a strange thick non-newtonian fluid called Oobleck. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid, i.e. its viscosity increases tremendously. A hammer will bounce on it, but you can sink your hand into it with no effort if you do it slowly. it's really fun to play with, and you can do the mix in your kitchen! (i discovered the strange properties of this mix when i was a kid, playing in the kitchen).

Check this very amusing video showing what you can do with a pool filled-up with this liquid. Just like Jesus, you can walk on the liquid!

More info on Wikipedia.

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

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DSC01090 - Lathe Machine Tool (Philippines) by Loupiote

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A lathe machine tool in a workshop.

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DSC07571 - Burning Man 2009 - Sol by Loupiote

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This is my friend Sol. There is something magical and beautiful about her.

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

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6758 - vietnam - sow - Miao tribe woman with her pig on the road by Loupiote

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Miao tribe woman with her pig on the road (Vietnam)

This fat pig was walking very slowly, and the poor woman probably spent the entire day to go back from the Mèo Vac market to her village.

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DSC06159 - Young Kids Riding Motorbike by Loupiote

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Kid driving motorcycle with his little brother (Borneo)

In remote villages, there is no minimum age for riding a motorcycle. As long as the kid's feet can touch the ground, they are good to go!

Photo taken in Gunung Mulu National Park (Borneo)

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2251-burning-man-2005 - mind fuck tower by Loupiote

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Mind Fuck Tower at dawn

The only access to this tower is via a very high (and completely unsecured) metal ladder that forms the pedestal of the tower. At the top, a cozy little lounge with a nice view of the playa.

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

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DSC07722 - Stone Paved Pathway over Living Root Bridge - Mawlynnong (India) by Loupiote

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

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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DSC01804 - Hand-Churned Ice Cream by Loupiote

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People serving delicious hand-churned strawberry and raspberry ice-cream near Center Camp. This was by far the best treat I had on the playa.

They were making the ice-cream using traditionnal method: Ice and salt. Salt, when poured on ice, causes ice to get colder, helping to cool the ice-cream.

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

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DSC08755 - Burning Man 2009 - Acrobatics at the Center Camp Cafe by Loupiote

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Acrobatics at the Center Camp Cafe

This is Kate and her Acro partner. She is part of the Environmental Encroatchment (EE) Magic Circus Band based in Chicago.

For more information about her, go to: www.voortrek.com and www.encroach.net

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

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DSC09177 - Rifugio Passo Principe and Catinaccio d'Antermoia by Loupiote

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In the center of the photo, the mountain pass is called "Passo Principe", and there is a small Refugio hidden near the rocks, just left of the pass. You can see the access trail to the Refugio on the left.

The mountain on the right is Catinaccio d'Antermoia, and it is equipped with a nice Via Ferrata.

Via Ferratas are climbing routes permanently equipped with a safety cable. For more info about via ferrata, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata.

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

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DSC08457 - Pyrotechnic Explosion - Chinese New Year Street Celebration (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Warzone? no, this is just the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown (San Francisco)

Each year, late on the night of the Chinese New Year, chaos erupts in the heart of Chinatown. An insane amount of very illegal firecrackers and fireworks are lit-up and detonated in the streets. The air fills-up with thick, rancid, toxic smoke. Sparks and rockets fly randomly in all directions. The local Police knows that they cannot stop the madness, so they prefer to stay away. Participants are highly advised to wear ear and eyes protection.

This unoficial event dubbed "Chinatown Bang" attracts local Chinese Americans as well as members of the San Francisco Cacophony Society. After running out of ammunitions, participants celebrate the Chinese lunar new year in local bars.

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5682 - vietnam - Red dao tribe mother and child by Loupiote

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Red dao tribe mother and child (Sa Pa, Vietnam)

The Dao (pronounced Zao) are the 9th largest ethnic group in Vietnam with a population of just under 500,000. They belong to the Hmong Dao language group and are believed to have started migrating from China in the 13th century. The women wear some of the most colorful and diverse costumes of all ethnic groups but can be identified by their black trousers richly embroidered with flower or small star patterns. Their jackets can be red or black usually with embroidered borders. The ensemble is topped by a black or red turban together with chunky silver jewelry. In addition most Dao women shave off their eyebrows and foreheads as this is traditionally regarded as a sign of beauty.

For more info about the Red Dao people, go to globalwanderings.co.uk/ethnic_minorities/dao.shtml.

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DSC07605 - Blond Woman with Pink Costume by Loupiote

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Blond Woman with Pink Costume

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

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8636 - rainbow gathering - hippie hats by Loupiote

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Rainbow Gathering 2004 (California)

See the album description for more information about this event.

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DSC06410 - Man with Skull Mask Playing Flute - Dia de los Muertos by Loupiote

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

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