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Dogon Celebration A Village high in the Bandiagara Escarpment 2002 We hiked from the plains below to this small village hidden in the rocky outcroppings of the Bandiagara Escarpment. An escarpment is a cliff and the Bandiagara rises to about 500 … Continue reading
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Prayers Offered by Young Monks Young Buddhist Monks pose as if they are praying in an ancient temple on the plains of Bagan. As I’ve written in other posts, the boys were cooperative and helpful. Not once did they ask … Continue reading
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It seems she does not approve of “city ways” Yunnan Provence, China 2005 A woman from one of the many Hmong minorities sits on the curb in Donchuan city. This was a typical pose for anyone in town who … Continue reading
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Stirring the cooked palm candy The candy factory was on a palm lined road a few miles from Siem Riep. The sugar to make the candy is obtained from the flowers of the sugar palm tree which are common in Cambodia. A container is … Continue reading
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Here is a floating village on Tonle Lake. This is the kind of place our grocery store woman of yesterday would visit to sell her wares. We might call these houseboats. Some of them looked too ramshackle to move, but … Continue reading
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A beautiful young Cambodian woman performs in Siem Riep. Cambodians are rightfully proud of the beauty of the dance and the dancers. Training the hands begins at a young age with the fingers of the girls pressed backwards by the … Continue reading
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On board a ferry in Senegal 1997 I am able to show you this photo because I have lots of plug-ins that enable me to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. I made this from a Kodachrome slide. … Continue reading
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St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow 1989 I love this photo. It doesn’t show St. Basil’s but it shows the power of government. The pink wall looming as a backdrop is the wall of the Kremlin. Here we have a thin, anxious looking woman … Continue reading
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Transylvania, somewhere near Kalnoky Estates 2012 Two horse-pulled wagons drew slowly up the hill. I spotted this man in his fedora and told Daniel to stop. It was the hat. Hats tell a lot about a person. And this man’s … Continue reading
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After we left the village of Sighet, where I noted the birthplace of Elie Wiesel across the street from an excellent restaurant, we drove through these mountains. There had been a snow storm the night before and there were … Continue reading
