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DSC03712 - Construction Worker building Concrete Formwork by Loupiote

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Construction Worker building Timber Formwork.

Construction workers often wear their safety helmet over straw hats. Sun protection is a necessity when working all day outdoor in tropical countries.

Photos taken on a hotel construction site in Miri (Borneo).

View my other photos of this construction site.

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DSC01829 - Group of Hindu Men on the Ghats of Varanasi (India) by Loupiote

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Group of Hindu men on the Ghats of Varanasi (India).

In the back, the Ganges river, and the river boats that ferry Hindu pilgrims to the beach where they take the Holy bath, across the river.

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

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DSC09996 - Hindu Woman with Large Nose Ring by Loupiote

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Bride's mother at her daughter's wedding in a village (India)

Like her daughter (the bride), she is wearing a large gold nose ring jewelry with a chain on the side.

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DSC05664 - Yogi Sadhu in Yoga Position Standing with Leg Behind the Head (Nepal) by Loupiote

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Yogi Sadhu standing with leg behind the head, during the Maha Shivaratri Hindu Festival (Nepal)

Hundreds of thousands of Sadhus, Babas, Hindu devotees and pilgrims converge to the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu during the Shivaratri festival ('Great Night of Shiva'), to pray Lord Shiva.

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

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DSC09262 - Street Parade with Sound Trucks - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Many pickup trucks with oversize sound systems at the 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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DSC09300 - Bullhorns and Muslim Flags - Eid-Milad-un-Nabi Muslim Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Muslim crowd waving green and red flags between two sound trucks 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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DSC00090 - Hippies Sitting in Circle at Rainbow Camp - Kumbh Mela 2013 by Loupiote

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Hippies sitting in a circle around the campfire, where supper will be served.

This is 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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DSC07607 - Beef Lungs and Hearts Hanging at Meat Market (India) by Loupiote

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Beef lungs and hearts hanging at a meat market 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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DSC09792 - Ponte Tridentina - Footbridge by Loupiote

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This is the famous footbridge at the top of the via ferrata Tridentina, Dolomites Mountains (Italian Alps).

The small suspension bridge, visible from the road below, passes over a vertiginous vertical chasm.

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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DSC03824 - Procession With Ceremonial Poles near the Sangam - Kumbh Mela 2013 Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Hindu devotees from an Ashram, doing a procession near the Sangam, at the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu festival near Allahabad (India).

Some are forming rows and holding some sort of ceremonial poles.

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.

Thousands of Hindu devotees converge toward the bank of the Ganges river at the Sangam where they will take the Holy Dip. 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 morning of Vasant Panchami Snan day, an important religious date for Hindu people and one of the most auspicious mornings for taking the holy bath in the Ganges river.

For more information about Vasant Panchami (or Basant Panchami), read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasant_Panchami.

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

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DSC08486 - Brazil Carnival Costume - Orange Feathers - Carmen by Loupiote

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Carmen

Photo taken at the San Francisco Carnaval 2005.

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2729-phsh-autopsy-room - Abandoned Hospital (Presidio, San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Autopsy room

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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DSC00584 - Goats Headbutting - Wild Long Hair Himalayan Goats by Loupiote

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Wild long-haired Himalayan mountain goats (India)

This young one was taking head-butt lessons with an older one.

If you know the name of this breed of wild Himalayan goats, please post a Comment.

I think those may be Pashmina (also called Changthangi) breed.

For more photos and info about those wild goats, go to the photo album.

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DSC08890 - Burning Man 2009 - Art Car with Fire Cannon by Loupiote

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Art Car with Fire Cannon

Yeah, this one looks like a big... well, you know what!

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

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20727-burning-man-2006 - Giant three-legged alien by Loupiote

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The giant three-legged alien and its ring ladder

Giant Three-Legged Alien : I. T. by Michael Christian

For more info about Michael Christian, go to michaelchristian.com.

Check my other photos of the Giant Three-Legged Alien!

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

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DSC07108 - Heavily Armed Indian Security Forces - Darjeeling (India) by Loupiote

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Heavily armed Indian security forces during a pro Gorkhaland demonstration in Darjeeling (India)

Not sure if they were part of the Army or Police.

The guns are Indian-made INSAS rifles (Indian Small Arms System), derived from the AK-47.

They also have batons for non-lethal crowd control.

For more info about those rifles, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSAS_rifle.

Gorkhaland is a proposed state in India demanded by the people of the Darjeeling hills region. For more info, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkhaland.

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DSC01999 - Fire Motorbike - Firefighting - Fire Engine 5 (India) by Loupiote

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Fire Motorcycle at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

The Indian Fire Department at Kumbh Mela had several of those Royal Enfield Bullet 350cc motorcycles equipped with up to 4 fire extinguishers and an oxygen tank. They provide faster access to a fire, given the sometimes very crowded streets of the festival ground, where driving a fire engine might not work well.

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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DSC03759 - Photographers Napping - Jordano Cipriani - Kumbh Mela 2013 Festival (India) by Loupiote

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Award Winning Photographer Jordano Cipriani (left) and a fellow photographer are napping after shooting all night and early morning of Vasant Panchami Snan (an important bathing day), at the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu festival near Allahabad (India).

Check out Cipriani's amazing photos on his website: www.giordanocipriani.com.

He had an official Press Pass card. I didn't have one but I managed to get past the fences and through the Police lines with the other "accredited" photographers.

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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DSC06709 - Ginkgo Biloba Leaves by Loupiote

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Leaves of a Ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba) at night, in San Francisco.

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DSC05413 - Rainbow hat - Dore Alley Fair (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Rainbow hat - Dore Alley Fair (San Francisco)

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DSC07816 - Burning Man 2009 - The Time Cycle by Loupiote

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The Time Cycle

This huge art car built by Homer Wells (on the photo) is a sort of mobile Ferris wheel

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

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DSC00291 - Skull Makeup - Couple with Candles - Dia de Los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Photo taken at the Dia de los Muertos procession in the Mission (San Francisco) on Nov 2, 2006.

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

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DSC00482 - The Sweetness of Life is Devotion - BRO Road Sign (India) by Loupiote

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Road sign from BRO (the Border Roads Organisation), that built the mountains roads and bridges in the mountainous border regions of India.

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

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DSC01078 - Jot Dean Ice Cave by Loupiote

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Large block of ice in the Jot Dean ice cave (California).

It looks like in the past, the entire cave was filled with ice, and now, due to climate change, most of the ice has melted, but there is still a pretty large chunk on the side.

For more info about ice caves, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cave.

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2087-burning-man-2005 - Lego Man - lego installation by benjamin jones by Loupiote

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"Lego Man" by Benjamin Jones.

He made a mini Burning Man playa all in Lego, complete, with this Lego Burning Man figure in the center.

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

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DSC01921 - Clay Shiva Lingas Hindu Offerings - Procession at 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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DSC09082 - Zoey riding the Zip-Line over San Francisco by Loupiote

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My friend Zoey riding the free zip-line installed by the British Columbia Tourism Bureau over Justin Herman Plaza near the Embarcadero center in San Francisco.

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

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DSC09079 - Zoey riding the Zip-Line over San Francisco by Loupiote

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My friend Zoey riding the free zip-line installed by the British Columbia Tourism Bureau over Justin Herman Plaza near the Embarcadero center in San Francisco.

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

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DSC10036 - Tsunami Victim's Decomposed Body - Corpse - Cadaver by Loupiote

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Paramedics examining decomposed body of tsunami victim - Forensic Medicine Museum, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok (Thailand)

This is a Mockup installation in the museum.

For other photos and more information about this museum, please read the album description.

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DSC02919 - Electric Arcs from a Tesla Coil by Loupiote

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Electric discharge showing the lightning-like plasma filaments from a Tesla coil.

For more information about Tesla Coils, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil

Photo taken at the Burning Man Decompression Party 2010 (San Francisco).

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9951 - Vampire Fake Blood by Loupiote

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Check the story behind this photo.

For a good fake blood recipe, read to the album description.

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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DSC08185 - Truck Hanging Off Overpass - Traffic Accident (India) by Loupiote

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Truck hanging off a bridge after serious traffic accident (India)

The accident happened shortly before, and the truck drivers (or what was left of them) had already been removed from the wreck.

It may look strange that the guardrail seems intact In fact a good section of the guardrail was destroyed (you can see the broken guardrail on this photo). The truck must have been going pretty fast when it flew off the bridge and hit the ground pretty fast and then rotated into a near vertical position after its front smashed the ground.

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DSC01981 - Pedestrian Bridge - Petite Ceinture - Abandoned railway (Paris, France) by Loupiote

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Pedestrian Bridge

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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7546 - Country Veterinarian Spaying a Piglet (Vietnam) by Loupiote

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Country veterinarian spays a female piglet - 9 of 13 - vietnam

Spaying is a common and simple surgical operation to remove or disable a female animal’s ovaries.

Here the operation takes place in the village's pig market. The screaming piglet is attached up-side down on a piece of wood. The veterinarian performs a small incision that does not cause any bleeding (he must have done that operation very often and knows exactly where to cut). Then he inserts his bare fingers (no gloves, no scrubbing) in the piglet's belly through the incision to find the ovaries. Hopefully the animal has a good immune system! The ovaries are extracted, ligatured and put back inside, then the incision is stitched. Of course no anesthetic is used, so the piglet was very vocal during the entire operation that lasted no more than 5 minutes. After the operation the piglet seemed totally exhausted and suddenly very quite, after oinking very loudly during the whole ordeal.

See the other photos of the piglet spaying operation.

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DSC00509 - burning man 2007 - Rebuilt Man is installed by Loupiote

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Rebuilt Man is installedThe first Man was destroyed prematurely by arson by Paul Addis (RIP).

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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DSC00462 - Girl dancing - PLUR by Loupiote

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Photo taken at the San Francisco LoveFest 2008.

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DSC08423 - Indian Man with Short Beard and Red Headwear (India) by Loupiote

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

All the local farmers were there to buy and sell livestock. Most of them were Muslim. This is a portrait of one of those farmers.

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DSC00544 - Skull Makeup - Dia de los Muertos - Halloween (San Francisco) by Loupiote

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Man with Skull Face Paint - Dia de Los Muertos (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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01002580 - Living Root Bridge over Small Stream near Mawlynnong (India) by Loupiote

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Small 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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015 - Diesel-Electric Train Engines by Loupiote

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Old rusted diesel-electric train engines in the semi-abandoned train yard in Puerto Limon (Costa Rica)

If you know the make and model of those train engines, please email me or post a comment.

Diesel-electric engine work this way: A diesel engine generate electricity by powering large generators, and this electricity then powers large electric motors attached to the axles of the wheels. This way there is no need for gears and a clutch, so the system is lighter, simpler and more efficient.

I jumped a fence to take those amazing photos. The train depot is (almost) abandoned. Several rusted, half disassembled diesel-electric train engines are sitting in the yard.

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DSC09879 - Christ with Barbwire Crown by Loupiote

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Christ with barbwire crown at the summit of Monte Paterno mountain.

The barbwire crown is to commemorate the bloody battles that took place in this area during WWI between the Austrian and Italian armies.

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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DSC01962 - Men Carrying Trays Overhead (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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DSC06187 - Pet Boa Snake - Sticking tongue out by Loupiote

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Pet Boa Snake - Sticking tongue out

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DSC10288 - Hotel notice showing midnight curfew law - Luang Prabang (Laos) by Loupiote

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Hotel notice showing midnight curfew law - Luang Prabang (Laos)

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DSC01521 - burning man 2007 - Fire - Temple of Forgiveness by Loupiote

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Temple of Forgiveness - Designed by David Best and Tim Dawson - see ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/thetemplecrew/

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

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DSC07670 - Burning Man 2009 - Aerialists on "The Heron" by Loupiote

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Aerialists on "The Heron" at dusk.

The Heron Project by Christina Sporrong.

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

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

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DSC08804 - Nawabi Mahal Ruins - Lucknow Residency (India) by Loupiote

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Strings of red flags on a ruined monument in the British Residency park in Lucknow (India)

This ruined building is called Nawabi Mahal [Tomb] or Nawabi Masjid [Mosque] or the Imambara. Not sure what the correct name is.

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For more info about this place, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residency_Lucknow

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DSC00177 - Baba with Dreadlocks by Loupiote

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Baba with long dreadlocks tied into a big knot, in Daraganj during the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival near Allahabad (India).

Even though there are millions of Babas and pilgrims at this festival, I bumped into this Baba twice at completely different locations.

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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DSC00143 - Little Girl Filling-Up Plastic Bucket at Water Hose by Loupiote

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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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