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Sunset at Inle Lake

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Diagonal Lines I’ve got hundreds of photos of the leg-rowing fishermen at Inle Lake. That’s what happens when you take a photo tour. You may come home with 80 gigabytes of photos, but many are the same photo. Well, more … Continue reading

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Nomads of Mauritania

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Sahara Desert 2006 … somewhere in Mauritania.  I thought  you’d like to see what a nomad’s tent looks like inside. This is a Mauritanian tent and is different from the Moroccan tent I showed you a couple of days ago. The … Continue reading

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Sundays are Fundays

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 Sunday afternoons  you can find me at my computer trying to overcome my left brain. It isn’t easy for me. I constantly have to give myself permission to be wild and crazy. But when I do and when I like … Continue reading

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Desolate

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Morocco: Circa 1995 A Berber Nomad woman spots us standing on a nearby hill and runs to her tent. Most likely she is not afraid, but she is shy. She will be obliged by custom to let us enter her tent … Continue reading

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Prayers

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Yushou, Quinhai Provence, China An older woman waits for her family and while she waits she spins her prayer wheel. With each spin, prayers fly heavenward. I once saw prayer wheels set in a rushing stream. As the force of … Continue reading

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Tibetan Transportation

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 Not only do Tibetans have a fondness for wearing cowboy hats, they rope and ride…yaks as well as horses. Lone Tibetans travel over the vast steppes riding yaks. This yak, saddled so beautifully, was grazing near Quinghai lake. His rider was a … Continue reading

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Prayer Flags on the Steppe

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 Western China, where this photo was shot, is inhabited by devout Buddhists. The rolling hills and prairies of the steppelands are sprinkled with prayer flags. Sometimes the flags are strung over a lone yak hair tent. Sometimes they glitter in the … Continue reading

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Tamarind Man

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 The tradition of a refreshing drink carries on in the Damascus souk of Hamadiyeh. I first saw these men carrying that large, ornate urn on their back when I visited the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul in the early 90’s. Then the … Continue reading

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Sherbet

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The word sherbet comes from the Arabic word ‘sharbat’ and originally it meant a fruit drink. I’ve read that the Arabs, Persians, Turks, etc. had many fruit flavored drinks with exotic ingredients such as rose water and orange blossom water. I … Continue reading

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Medicinal

Making Palinka Yesterday, I told you that Palinka, an apricot brandy, is kept on the table in Romania, much as we might keep salt and pepper. Palinka seems to be a symbol of hospitality along with a loaf of bread … Continue reading

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