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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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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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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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DSC08115 - Indian Excavator Operator and his Machinery - Doosan DX225LC (India) by Loupiote

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Excavator operator taking a break (India)

The guy was pretty young. He was using the excavator to rip up old asphalt on a road in West Bengal.

This paved road was poorly constructed with a very thin layer of poor quality asphalt (a lot of gravel with little bitumen). With all the heavy truck traffic, huge potholes formed everywhere. Hopefully they will build a better road.

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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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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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DSC08513 - Burning Man 2009 - Glowing Art Car under the Full Moon by Loupiote

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Glowing Art Car under the Full Moon

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

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DSC00074 - My Friend Jasmin at Kumbh Mela 2013 by Loupiote

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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.

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

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DSC05037 - Shipwreck on Kelambu Beach by Loupiote

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A shipwreck and a dog on Kelambu beach (Borneo)

It's the front half of a fishing trawler. The hull was made of fiberglass and epoxy, and apparently it burned. Not sure if it burned after the wreck or if fire on board caused the accident. View the bow of this boat.

Kelambu beach is truly a beautiful secluded beach, hard to reach and far away for the nearest village. I decided to spend the night on that desert beach.

In the back, you can see Kelambu island.

View my other photos of Kelambu beach.

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

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DSC07596 - Khasi Butcher With Ax and Beef Meat in Meat Shop in Meghalaya (India) by Loupiote

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Butcher with ax and beef meat in Meghalaya (India)

It may sound strange, but in some regions of India, people do eat cows.

I took this series of photos in a village in the East Khasi Hills, a region of the Meghalaya State in North-East India, inhabited by the Khasi people. Khasi people were animist but most converted to Christianity, and they do eat beef.

In this village, several meat shops were selling beef meat and they displayed the severed heads of the slaughtered cows on the ground in front of their shop. They have no fridges so the animals are slaughtered early in the morning, and all the fresh meat and organs must be sold by the end of the day.

For more info about the Khasi people, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_people.

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DSC09905 - Climbers in Line - Monte Paterno Via Ferrata by Loupiote

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Young climbers waiting in line for their turn to go through an exposed vertical passage equipped with a via ferrata, near the summit of Monte Paterno.

The summit of Monte Paterno can be crowded on sunny days. It can be reached by relatively easy via ferrata that is very popular among local youth.

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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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

DSC01090 - Lathe Machine Tool (Philippines) by Loupiote

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A lathe machine tool in a workshop.

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DSC05803 - Woman with Face Paint at Night - Burning Man 2010 by Loupiote

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Nicole with face paint makeup. It looks like I bump into her about every year on the playa.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2010 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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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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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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DSC02076 - Mounted Police Clearing Access to Sangam Bathing Area - Kumbh Mela (India) by Loupiote

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Mounted police clearing access to the Sangam bathing area the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

Hundreds of thousands Hindu pilgrims gather at dawn on the bank of the Ganges river, near 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.

This was the early 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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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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DSC00820 - Five Legged Cow (India) by Loupiote

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This calf has an extra leg attached to the top of her neck. This is a birth defect called Polymelia, where conjoint twins starts developing but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin.

With cows, the one or two extra limbs are often attached to the top of the cow's neck. This extra legs are shrunken, deformed and non-functional, and they get strange long nails (since the nails on normal cow legs get worn by walking).

In India, when a calf is born with extra leg or two, this is like winning the jackpot: those 5 legged and 6 legged cows are seen are very holy, and the owner will parade them around and receive donations from Hindu devotees.

These two calves (one with 5 legs, and the other one with 6 legs) were transported around the city in a specially designed motor rickshaw, covered with images of the famous "Sai Baba" (not sure why).

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

Photo taken in Varanasi - also known as Benares (India).

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

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DSC09242 - Oxy-Acetylene Torch by Loupiote

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Welder holding an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.

View more photos of railroad workers replacing a Muni lightrail track section on Church street in San Francisco.

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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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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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DSC07743 - Paved Trail 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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DSC08775 - Excavators with Jackhammer Attachments by Loupiote

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If you know the model of those Caterpillar excavators, , please post a comment or email me, thanks!

Caterpillar excavators with hydraulic jackhammers are breaking the street paving.

View more photos of railroad workers replacing a Muni lightrail track section on Church street in San Francisco.

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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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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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DSC02807 - Map of Kumbh Mela 2013 (India) by Loupiote

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Map of the Kumbh Mela 2013 temporary city.

For 3 months every 12 years, Kumbh Mela occupies about 56 Square Kilometers (22 Square Miles) of sandy ground in the Ganges river floodplain. The "permanent" population of this temporary city is 5 to 10 Million pilgrims housed in thousands of temporary Ashrams and tent camps, with an estimated more than 50 Million coming for the ritual baths during the event.

The Sangam, the spiritual center of Kumbh Mela, is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganges river, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

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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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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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.

For more photos and 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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DSC06504 - Woman Taking Cellphone Photo of Man with Sugar Skull Face Paint - Dia de los Muertos by Loupiote

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Sahar taking a cellphone photo of a man with sugar skull face paint.

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

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

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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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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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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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DSC06393 - Fashion Shot - Lux by Loupiote

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Her name is Lux (San Francisco)

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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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DSC00883 - Boys Playing in Front of Old Traditional House with Wood Carvings (India) by Loupiote

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Boys playing in front of an old traditional house with wood carvings, in a village in the Indian Himalayas.

View more photos of Janki Chatti village, near Yamunotri, in the Indian Himalayas.

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DSC04741 - Severed Pig Head - Hardware Shop Window Display by Loupiote

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Severed Pig Head.

This is part of the Halloween shop window display of Cliff's Variety hardware store in the Castro (San Francisco)

The blood effect is made with red strings and beads. And the severed head spins.

Under the head, there are frying pans with fake bacon cooking (not visible on this photo).

Bloody cool!

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Burning Woman - Burning Man 2002 by Loupiote

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Burning Woman - No, it is not a corpse or cadaver being cremated, it is a sculpture that is burned in a fire pit on the last day of the Burning-Man Festival.

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2002 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

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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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DSC00758 - Traditional Wooden House in Himalayan Village (India) by Loupiote

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Small traditional wooden house (or cabin) in a village in the Indian Himalayas.

This type of small house are for by a single person. Families have larger houses like this one.

View more photos of Janki Chatti village, near Yamunotri, in the Indian Himalayas.

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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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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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DSC05240 - Zombie Priest with Scary Eyes by Loupiote

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Scary zombie priest wearing cassock and cappello romano hat

Great skull makeup. And I like the long-neck clerical collar.

Randal Smith is a San Francisco photographer, make-up artist and web designer..

Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2012.

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

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DSC09250 - Bullhorn Loudspeakers on Pickup Truck - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Bullhorns and makeshift sound system on a pickup truck at Milad un-Nabi street parade.

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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DSC02532 - Worker near Excavator Bucket - Building Demolition by Loupiote

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Worker near Excavator Bucket - 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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