Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography

  • Portfolio
  • About
  • Contact
  • Archive
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
49 images found

Loading ()...

  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7890_1386449.TIF
  • The Don Stewart family, dressed in period attire, ride old-fashioned bicycles dating from the late 1800's.
    MELISSA FARLOW_06341_515727.jpg
  • Prisoners are held with the motorcycles, bicycles and spare parts.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7661_1306537.TIF
  • Vendors carry goods and wares on bicycles through muddy Congo roads.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7209_1001270.JPG
  • The first Wal-Mart in China opened in Shenzhen, the city where Deng made his famous “to be rich is glorious” speech. Cosmetics are a major business in China and women in the China Middle Class see this as an important part of their lifestyle. <br />
<br />
Signs hang overhead in this store proudly announcing, “Made in China.” They sell all that a family needs or wants, and the cosmetics area is more plush than any Wal-Mart in the U.S.<br />
<br />
Times have changed. When I was in China years ago, the best store was a government “Friendship Store” that had a photo on the wall of a female employee with a sign underneath, “Worst Employee of the Month.” They motivated workers at that time by shaming them.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1143443.TIF
  • A big wheel bicycle rider at Geauga County, fair.
    RANDY OLSON_06414_3280_10.TIF
  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the trans-African highway which runs east/west in DR Congo. War lords along the way patrol through the rebel controlled gold mining region.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7209_976436.TIF
  • Men load a wooden plank onto a bicycle. Logging companies are one of the greatest threats to indigenous tribe of Pygmies that survive in the forest as hunters and gatherers.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7209_1001271.TIF
  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the muddy Trans-African Highway. Rain can't stop the human flood of those who push through to resupply newly minted gold mines in the Ituri. It is the main east/west highway in DR Congo.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7209_972263.TIF
  • A young daredevil bicyclist rides down a carriage road that is closed to vehicular traffic in Iroquois Park. Frederick Law Olmsted created a network of pedestrian pathways and curving roads for carriages, but might not have ever imagined this use.<br />
<br />
Iroquois Park is known for its panoramic views and long winding roads to the top of 725-acre park in Louisville, Kentucky.  Three parks Olmstead planned in Louisville are named to honor a Native American Indian tribe—Cherokee, Shawnee and Iroquois—that once shared the dark and bloody hunting grounds of Old Kentucky.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6560_956351.jpg
  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7890_1386420.TIF
  • A biker cruises tree lined Espanola Way in South Beach.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MT5959_1312316.jpg
  • Dust Buster environmental activist Mary Miller embraces her granddaugher while her grandson rides his bike near the elementary school in Sylvester.<br />
Miller helped document problems and joined a lawsuit when the community faced degradation from a coal processing plant that covered their town in soot.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6773_1023647.jpg
  • A Rapa Nui man with his girlfriend watch tourists explore the moai on Easter Island. As the numbers grow for tourism, they outnumber locals who like their quiet island life.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8059_1477352.JPG
  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal. Women process fish on the shore at Karountine, northwest of Ziguinchor.  A growing number of Africans live on the coast because the ocean is one of the last sources for protein available. <br />
<br />
Authorities have attempted to get rid of this village, but since fishing is the most important aspect of St. Louis, the community has fought off the government to stay here.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7393_1057917.JPG
  • Cover of the August, 2001 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
    MELISSA FARLOW_NGMCOVER_1266792.jpg
  • A cyclist on a 19th century style cycle pedals ahead of a thunderstorm.
    MELISSA FARLOW_06341_515866.jpg
  • Man on antique bike pedals ahead of an Indiana thunderstorm.
    MELISSA FARLOW_06341_515794.jpg
  • Graffiti lined tubes where families play and skateboarders show off their moves on a Sunday afternoon when people head to the parks in a Quito.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_2512519.jpg
  • A man rides his bike underneath octopus interchange in Shanghai.
    RANDY OLSON_RF4319_1155864.JPG
  • A woman working on a laptop.
    RANDY OLSON_RF4319_1114454.JPG
  • A gold mining village near Cinquante.
    RANDY OLSON_RF4319_1114396.JPG
  • Women gather compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8515_2703524.JPG
  • Men from a food internet ordering company deliver in re-used glass jars as an attempt to reduce one-use-plastic.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8515_2703519.JPG
  • A billboard encouraging people to use recycled glass bottles to carry their liquids instead of using plastic packaging.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8515_2703502.JPG
  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327788.JPG
  • Main street of the Kakuma refugee camp.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327776.JPG
  • Bicyclists on a road in Kakuma.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2327769.JPG
  • A man sells mirrors in the Kakuma Refugee Camp.
    RANDY OLSON_MM8259_2281793.TIF
  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.<br />
Kamchatka has remote village life where during the summer, locals race around in ancient former Soviet motorbikes with sidecars. It is normal to see the family dog tagging along.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7593_1260911.TIF
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University students in their dorm room.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176530.JPG
  • A cyclist with his son rides down East Nanjing Road.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176520.JPG
  • Traffic sweeps past an American chain restaurant on East Nanjing Road.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176518.JPG
  • Migrant workers with jobs as moving men, play on the street outside an office building.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176454.JPG
  • People walking in Shenzhen on a rainy night.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176293.JPG
  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7112_763239.JPG
  • The current market and trading scene in Lahore.
    RANDY OLSON_06569_1071293.JPG
  • Pedestrians and bicyclist in a street scene with stormy dark sky.
    RANDY OLSON_04319_972097.JPG
  • The Kakuma Refugee Camp is near Lake Turkana and the northern border of Kenya. 123K  people have lived in this camp since the beginning of the war between Sudan and Ethiopia and have continued to live there thru the 20 year conflict in South Sudan. The town of Kakuma has grown to 70,000 because of the UN presence. Turkana are the local tribal people and would normally be agrarian but they now spend their time cutting firewood and making charcoal for the refugees in the camp. The exchange is generally for food. There are many Nuer and Dinkas in this camp as well as DRC folks from Kivu and Goma primarily.
    MM8259_20000211_03024.tif
  • Suwannee Cafe is a hub of activity day and night in the small community on the Gulf of Mexico.
    MELISSA FARLOW_05842_470856-13.JPG
  • Slows Bar BQ in Corktown across from the abandoned Central Station.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MT6613_1457278.jpg
  • A wildflower blooms in the Black Rock Desert as California costume designer dons a neon costume and pink scarf to brave a sandstorm at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond, Uncle Sam wheels along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_680958.jpg
  • There is a reason Guangzhou was the first city in China to reach first world status (2008). Everyone in Guangzhou, aside from the migrant population, is making an average of $830 a month. Money has approximately four times more buying power in China than the U.S., so that $830 equals $3320 a month in our economy. That is the same buying power of average citizens in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176410.TIF
  • Traffic in Shenzhen at night.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7493_1176292.JPG
  • A boy rides his bicycles along the sandy bank of the St. Mary's River in Florida. Campers set up tents, hammocks and a large American flag to celebrate the Fourth of July.
    KidBikeFlag copy.jpg
  • Negotiating bicycles and buggies on a dirt road are part of life in Kjailino, a remote village in Kamchatka.
    RANDY OLSON_MM7593_1260983-5.TIF
  • The Camel festival outside of Harappa.
    RANDY OLSON_06569_1071273.TIF
  • A woman rides a stationery bicycle for exercise behind a glass-walled workout area outside with a view at a country club in a residential section of Quito.
    MELISSA FARLOW_04526_2512710.jpg
  • A fish out of water bicycle, one of the eclectic modes of transportation at Burning Man, the annual weeklong festival in northwestern Nevada's National Conservation area. Beyond wheels, the wind blows dust along the vast playa, a salt flat or dry lake bed on one of Earth's flattest spots. Thousands of people create an instant city annually that celebrates art in a unique counter-culture experience.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_680958-14.jpg