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Pushkar Camel Fair, Rajasthan, India 2003 A young man checks his moustache before getting a shave at an outdoor barber shop. Pushkar Fair is similar to a County Fair here in America. Not only are animals, horses as well as camels, sold … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013 The Abore tribe was our first chance to shoot the Omo Valley people. We’d been told by our photographer/leader to choose a member of the tribe and take them to a background suitable for posing. I have told you that I … Continue reading
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Tinerhir, Morocco 1997 We ate a meatball tagine in a closet-sized restaurant. Our knees practically touched the knees of the other patrons. They were Berber men clothed in djellabla and chech. Some, the older ones, wore a dagger hanging from a cord draped … Continue reading
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Romania 1989 A bus carrying Romanian villagers had broken down on a mountain road. The villagers piled out with their bundles containing homemade sausage, cheese and bread. They didn’t forget to bring the bottles of palinka, an apricot brandy distilled … Continue reading
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Omo Valley, Ethiopia 2013 I’ve received some very important corrections from my Ethiopian friend, Osman Ahmed of Sora Tours…www.soratours.com Osman informs me that my blog of today was totally incorrect from the tribe’s name to the sex of the child … Continue reading
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Kyrgyzstan 2012: Barskoon village Torie and I visited the master yurt maker of Kyrgyzstan. Torie was planning to write a magazine article on him and she was a frenzy of note taking and photo shooting. I wasn’t as interested. It was high … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013: In the Omo Valley Our group leaders saved the Mursi tribe for last. I had the idea that it was because their village was the most remote of all the tribes we visited. And because the Mursi women wear the … Continue reading
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Istanbul, Turkey 2012 I always think of the Hagia Sophia as a cathedral. Although it was used as a mosque for 500 years, it was a Greek Orthodox cathedral for 1000 years before that. Now it is a museum. The name Hagia … Continue reading
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Uzbekistan 2012 An Uzbek patriarch is lost in thought as he leaves the animal market. Maybe he is mentally adding up his profits and losses. Adding up in Uzbekistan takes concentration. At the present, the exchange rate is nearly 3000 Uzbek … Continue reading
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Tibet 2007 Tibetan women offer prayers and penance as they circle the monastery by performing a series of prostrations. They perform this forehead on the ground position which can be called a ‘kowtow’, then rise, take one step forward, lie face down … Continue reading
