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  • A Kara boy holding hands with a caucasian man in Lumale Camp.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Tourists with a Rapanui dance group.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • Street scene of a military tank under Soviet era communications towers, a child on a bike and resident walking on the unpaved streets of Khailino in Kamchatka.
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  • Young girls in their finest dresses dance as the wedding party in the Khailino town hall that celebrated the first event in several years.
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  • A bride checks her makeup in a mirror as she readies herself for the wedding ceremony.
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  • Australian children await a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.
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  • A couple take in a view from Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • A woman admires fluorescent jellyfish in the lobby of Hotel Victor.
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  • A young cowboy sheriff with a badge, black hat, red flannel shirt and belt buckle steadies his hand on his weapon ready for action in his living room on the ranch.
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  • A young cowboy plays dead on the living room floor in a dramatic western fantasy involving knives and guns and a stuffed horse ready for a quick get-away.
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  • A young, western cowgirl walks to the barn with her trusty steed on wheels to watch her mother train wild horses.
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  • Donning a straw hat, a young cowgirl heads to the barn to watch the horses.
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  • Wyoming ranch family -mother, daughter and grandfather- is out for a drive to check on their sheep.
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  • Wild horses are gentled and trained by prison inmates at the Warm Springs Correctional Center. After several weeks of handling, the horses are auctioned off to the public.
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  • A photographer holds a cracked housing for remote cameras used to photograph wild horses stampeding.
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  • A trainer uses a rope as she works with a wild mustang on trusting to be touched. She learned gentling methods from her cowboy grandfather and patiently earns their confidence. She was a champion cowgirl going up and competing in rodeos.
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  • A nervous foal waits to be inspected by a veterinarian at a Bureau of Land Management holding facility. After wild horses were rounded up, they were trucked to Palomino Valley where they were vaccinated and given a freeze brand.
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  • A horse trainer on a wild mustang gallops full tilt across the Nevada desert leaving a cloud of dust. He had thirty days to train a wild horse for a competition in the first Extreme Mustang Makeover established to show off abilities of adopted wild horses.
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  • Cowboys from central Utah wait for a signal to begin branding young calves and an errant dog finds his way back to safety. Separated when they were moving cattle, the dog jumped up into the saddle upon seeing his owner. The ranch is surrounded by federal land of the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Canyonlands National Park with spectacular views or the orange walls surrounding Indian Creek.
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  • A U.S. Customs Service agent plays with a search dog near trucks crossing at the Mexican border.<br />
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The Canine Enfocement Program is used to combat terrorism, interdict narcotics, and other contraband while helping to facilitate and process legitimate trade and travel.
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  • Tourists take in the view from an overlook.
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  • An Australian man wearing one shoe.
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  • Mennonite farm children play at a water hole.
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  • A Mennonite man and his daughter look at a globe.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • A scientist studies salmon fry or young fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists don equipment and carry nets to study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Fish inspectors wade in shallow water are in pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens burn a poachers camp and caviar processing area.<br />
Poaching is the biggest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • Rear view mirror inside a car driving down a street in the remote town of Oktyabrsky.
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  • A statue of Lenin in the main square of the remote town of Oktyabrski.
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  • A bride and groom drive away in a vehicle decorated with balloons as party goers light sparklers to celebrate.
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  • Woman wrapped in plastic after getting electric stimulation treatment for weight loss.
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  • Women dance in a Petropavlovsk nightclub, Nebo Night Club. This club is possible in Yelizovo because the owner owns a fish processing plant and enjoys having his own club where young people like to congregate.
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  • Fish market in Petropavlovsk where locals purchase supplies from workers.
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  • A worker climbs a ladder beside sections of a pipeline being stockpiled near Sobolevo.
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  • Residents of Khailino, a remote village, ride a motorcycle with sidecar down the unpaved street under Soviet era communication towers.
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  • Wedding guests create a heart-shape on the floor with candles to celebrate the big event in Khailino.
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  • Guests at a wedding reception where the community decorated for the big event.
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  • A bride and groom deliver food and drink and greet shut in villagers in their homes.
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  • Young girls are dressed in their finest for a wedding celebration in a remote village. Their families are some of the industrious people who came to Kamchatka for “northern money” had to scramble when default happened, and they survived with no state money.  Highly valued Russian caviar was their only resource between 1995 and 2005.
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  • 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.
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  • Koryaksky Volcano looms above Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.<br />
Petropavlovsk surrounds the Avacha Bay Port and the nine volcanoes surround Petropavlovsk make a dramatic backdrop for a parking lot in Kamchatka, Russia.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River south of the town of Oktyabrski where men make a fish camp out of a beached, ocean-going vessel.  They are not fishing on this day because it allows time for the fish to spawn, and indigenous communities up river in Kamchatka can fish in the area along the Bolshaya River. <br />
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Fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of a net and then bring it around full circle in the river to capture the fish. A net is  dumped into small boats that have small nets laid in them. A crane picks up the small nets and dumps them into trucks that take the fish to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk. If fishing was allowed every day in the mouths of these rivers just off the Kamchatka shelf, no salmon would get up river to spawn. There are two “passing days” each week when fishing is banned, so these fishermen hang out in their camp and do their laundry. Some fishermen come from as far as Ulan-Ude, which is on the border with Siberia. One of the fishermen in this photo is from PK, two are from Urilutsk, Siberia, and two are from Oktybrski.
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  • The main fish market street in Petropavlovsk sells Pacific Steelhead, which has been on the Russian Red Book of endangered species since 1983. Even though military, police, and government officials charge through this street all day long, and it is illegal, this endangered salmon is sold with impunity.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens destroy poacher's caviar processing area.<br />
This is a rare raid of a poaching camp in Kamchatka. There are only four legal fish inspectors in this area for eight major river systems. These rivers emanate from the middle range and flow through the wetlands of western Kamchatka and finally out to the Sea of Okhotsk. Fish inspectors rarely make the 70 bust quota they are required to make per season.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks get stuck in pursuit of poachers.<br />
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 An anti-poaching enforcement trip starts in Sobolevo, the salmon poaching epicenter. Men ride on tanks and in boats attempting to spot poachers who put out nets to fish–they can see where sediment on the rocks was washed away and a net was dragged. Their suspicions are confirmed when they find spilled caviar. They follow many paths into the woods finding the poacher camp. <br />
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The patrols are just outside Soboleva in the heart of the most poached area of Kamchatka. Soboleva is on the Sea of Okhotsk, just off the Kamchatka shelf and is only accessible by MI-8 helicopter.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens burn a poachers camp and caviar processing area.<br />
Poachers are the greatest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • After the official ceremony at the Khailino town hall, the newly married couple is followed by the wedding party to visit everyone in town who could not leave their houses to attend the three-day party.  <br />
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Following Russian traditions, they drink a shot of vodka with each shut-in and share a little food, then go to the next home to visit other Kamchatka neighbors who are too elderly or infirm to participate in the event.
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  • A bride irons a bridesmaid's dress. Khailino in Kamchatka, Russia has not had an event in the last three years. The community mustered up a wedding and invited the entire community. Although the bride was seven months pregnant, she worked doing laundry and ironing for all her brothers and sisters on her wedding day.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye on her child.
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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children.
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  • A photographer's self portrait with a young woman in an elevator.
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  • Models on a cattle call.
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  • A cocktail party celebration at an Evian spa.
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  • A woman receiving a gold facial.
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  • Biologist searching for fish specimens in the Potaro River.
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  • The Protiva family enjoys the relaxing virtues of a cart full of hay.
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  • Woman in fish processing plant is:<br />
Nadezhda.
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  • A bride and groom deliver food and drink to the villagers that are homebound after their wedding.
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  • A young woman mans the ticket window at the Sun Pictures theater.
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  • An American photographer on assignment with an Easter Island photographer.
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  • Tourists with a Rapanui dance group.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • Missionary clinic in Tulgit.
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  • Woman is wrapped in plastic after getting electric stimulation "medical" treatment to lose weight "passively."
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  • Negotiating bicycles and buggies on a dirt road are part of life in Kjailino, a remote village in Kamchatka.
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  • A bride and groom talk with neighbors as they go through various rituals after their wedding.
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  • A wedding party takes photos outside the historic Fox Theatre on Woodward Avenue.
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  • Friends dance and listen to music at the bar at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • A bachelorette party waits for taxis on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • Heirloom tomatoes support a blackboard listing the fare of the day.
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  • A 'Tweetup,' or twitter connection in Little Havana.
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  • Kitty gentles and trains wild horses on her ranch in the high desert where the wild mustang trainer rides rides on trails with her children.
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  • Black hat and red bandana match the checkered shirt as this young, wide-eyed cowboy sheriff fantasizes on their western ranch.
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  • A young cowboy readies himself on his trained, former wild mustang while waiting to compete in a horse show.
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  • Kitty learned to train horses from her grandfather and now, she works with mustangs and difficult horses on her western ranch. Her daughter rides one of the many wild horses she has tamed and trained.
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  • A young cowboy confidently rides a trained mustang in the corral of the family ranch. The wild horse competed in an Extreme Mustang Makeover, a national competition, and placed second with the his trainer.
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  • A young cowgirl sits atop a tall, tamed and trained, former mustang at the family ranch.
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  • A photographer sets a camera trap at a water hole so a laser beam will trip the shutter to photograph wild horses.
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  • A trainer rides down a steep embankment trusting his sure-footed mustang. Many adopters of wild horses say they are calm and confident when riding on a trail.
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  • An older Wyoming rancher checks the fence at the Ladder Livestock Ranch while his daughter and granddaughter unlock the gate.
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  • A wild mustang foal nuzzles a wild horse activist.
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  • American tourists don sombreros and sing with a mariachi band at a cantina bar in Nuevo Laredo, a quirky border town.
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  • Young adults enjoying swimming in a water-filled rocky gorge.
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  • A nude toddler walking on a path in the woods.
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  • A photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • A writer is carried to the Omo River's muddy shore.
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  • A writer mimics a Nyangatom woman.
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  • Fish inspectors take a break during their pursuit of salmon poachers.<br />
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A warden shares tea with the poachers in their kitchen tent. There are a lot of unwritten rules. Fish wardens know that it costs $10,000 to get into a poaching camp in Kamchatka, and $10,000 to get back out by helicopter with your catch. The wardens understand that if they destroy fishing gear and caviar production facilities, they have harmed their neighbors enough. And they also can’t afford $10,000 to get criminals back by helicopter for prosecution.<br />
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The poachers know this, and know not to bring any kind of identity papers with them because it is possible for them to be prosecuted with their passports.  The kitchen survives the burn so men can feed themselves. The poachers go free, but have to sit and wait for their helicopter, empty handed which is why the wardens don’t burn their kitchen or sleeping areas.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks loaded with a boat and supplies as they pursue salmon poachers who are the greatest threat to salmon in Russia.
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  • Fish inspectors drive surplus tanks to pursue salmon poachers who are the biggest threat to salmon in Russia.
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