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Rainbow russian girl - How Weird Street Faire (San Francisco)

 

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Burning Tree by Kasia Wojnarski

 

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

 

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Art Car with Fire Cannon

 

On the left: The International Flameall Tractor by Steve Atkins aka SA.

 

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

 

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Mandas - Nubra Valley - Ladakh (India)

 

Those are like small stone dolmens (about 20-30 cm tall), with a pile on white stones on top. They are some sort of religious offering that the local seem to call "Mandas". There were several of those around a stupa.

 

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Little girls playing with a charango, an Andean lute instrument - Iruya (Argentina)

 

Iruya is a beautiful but very remote village in Northern Argentina. The dirt road that reaches the village is about 50Km long. It fords several rivers and goes over a 4000 meter pass. Iruya is reachable daily by local bus from Humahuaca (unless rain makes the road impassable).

 

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Rugged terrain in the Lava Beds National Monument (California).

 

Features like this one are often caused by collapsed lava tubes.

 

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

 

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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.

 

This young farmer was pulling a small rope through the piercing in the nose of his cow (a common technique to hold the animal on a leash).

 

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My friend Mumu getting ready to go to Bali for her "One Woman Circus Tour".

 

Mumu "Mumito" Mariane Charline is a choreographer, circus performer and fire artist.

 

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My friend Mumu getting ready to go to Bali for her "One Woman Circus Tour".

 

Mumu "Mumito" Mariane Charline is a choreographer, circus performer and fire artist.

 

For more photos and information about Mumu, go to my Mumu Photo 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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Morgue of the abandoned PHSH Hospital.

 

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".

 

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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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Woman carrying bags and a bundle of hay over her head, 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 my friend Bun Bun (Chelsea), trying a Royal Enfield bullet motorbike at the Kumbh Mela 2013 festival, near Allahabad (India).

 

The motorbike was a bit too heavy for her. 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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Severed cow heads in front of meat market selling 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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Reciprocity tattoo - Dore Alley Fair (San Francisco)

 

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

 

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One of the two domes.

 

Photo taken at the Ambedkar Memorial Park in Lucknow (India)

 

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Gaduliya Lohars kids with Mehndi (India)

 

The Gaduliya Lohars is a nomadic tribe of blacksmith that originates from Rajastan.

 

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Buckeye hot springs (California)

 

Steaming hot water showers down a small cliff with colorful concretions, and fills up a series of pools in the bed of a creek.

 

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Ungabungasaurus, aka Unga Bunga Dino , an art car built atop the chassis of an old Ford Escort - by Craig Sakowitz - see www.flickr.com/photos/craigsakowitz/sets/72157594510777968/

 

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

 

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Crazy Bunnies - Marina

 

The Bunny march is a flash-mob type event where all the bunnies of the city assemble and march to The Man, then to Center Camp, causing devastation and mayhem. They attached giant bunny ears to "The Man". Their leader is the Uber Bunny (Steven Raspa).

 

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

 

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Dao tribe woman (Mèo Vac, Vietnam)

 

Women of the Dao tribe often wear beautiful headwear with many metal pins holding their hair.

 

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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Street sign indicating the way to Sangam.

 

The Triveni Sangam is the confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, and this is the holiest place to take the ritual baths during the Kumbh Mela.

 

Kumbh Mela is the largest festival on Earth, taking place once every 12 years, with more than 50 million Hindu pilgrims gathering to pray and bathe in the holy Ganges river.

 

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Road bridge over the Ganga river floodplain.

 

The sandy floodplain is used for agriculture during the dry season. Small plantations (I don't know of what) are protected by fences made of some sort of dry grass or weed manually planted in the sand, that prevent flying sand from burying the small planted areas.

 

If you know the name of this type of agriculture or know what is being grown there, please post a comment!

 

During the rainy season (monsoon), the entire floodplain is flooded by the Ganges river.

 

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

 

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One of the very kitch Hindu God sculptures at the ISKCON (Hare Krishna) Ashram at Kumbh Mela 2013. The purple deity is Krishna in His four-handed (Vishnu) form.

 

This is Laxmi-Narayana, Krishna in his four-armed form as Lord Vishnu with Laxmi Devi, laying on Ananta Sesha, with Lord Brahma having emerged from the lotus flower from his navel.

 

Those metal sculptures were mechanically animated, like low-tech animatronics.

 

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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View of San Francisco Bay.

 

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Warrior and kid

 

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

 

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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.

 

This farmer is walking with his skinny cow on a leash.

 

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MoonWalk by Jonathan Bickart from Santa Monica

 

Artist website: www.sculpturestudio.org/

 

Photo taken at the Burning Man 2004 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).

 

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Fire Ladder TruckTruck owned by greg glover, with the conversion to art car being a collaborative project of the "black rock international burner hostel" early crew.

 

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

 

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Skydivers from the Burning Sky landing at dusk

 

For more information about skydiving at Burning Man, go to burningsky.org/.

 

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

 

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Construction worker building timber shoring to support the formwork on which fresh concrete will be poured. He is using a spirit level to make sure the formwork will be completely horizontal.

 

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

 

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the Gon KiRin art car was made by Doyle and Teddy Lo (See the Facebook page for this project).

 

Its LED lighting was slowly morphing between different colors.

 

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

 

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Girl with Pink Mohawk Hair - Giant Pillow Fight (San Francisco)

 

This giant pillow fight is a flashmob-type event that takes place on Justin Herman Plaza (San Francisco) on Valentine's day (Feb 14) between 6 and 8pm.

 

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Dual gauge tracks - railway (Vietnam)

 

China uses the world standard 1435 mm gauge, while Vietnam still uses a narrow 1000 mm metric gauge on their old "North-South Reunification Line" (Vietnam has plans to upgrade their North-South line for high-speed train in standard gauge).

 

The railway track connecting Hanoi to Beijing has 3 rails to support both gauges between Hanoi and the Chinese border.

 

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Sand sculpture of Hanuman (Hindu deity), at the Kumbh Mela 2013 Hindu festival near Allahabad (India)

 

For info about Hanuman, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman.

 

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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Car decorated with flowers and a green mosque dome and minaret on its roof, at Milad un-Nabi 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).

 

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Kid eating sugar cane (Mèo Vac, Vietnam)

 

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Construction Worker on a deck formwork.

 

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

 

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If you know the name and artist for this installation, please let me know, thanks!

 

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

 

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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).

 

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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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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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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.

 

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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).

 

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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.

 

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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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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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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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