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  • Restaurant patrons are inspired to join mariachi bands in song at a restaurant  in Garibaldi Plaza. Since the 1920s, traditional musicians have dressed in their finest matching suits and brought their guitars to serenade locals and tourists with heartfelt ballads and earn a few pesos.
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  • A businessmen crosses a street where patterns of reflected buildings make a geometric pattern in Chile's bustling capital city.<br />
Approximately three decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed Santiago into one of Latin America's most sophisticated metropolitan areas, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping malls, and impressive high-rise architecture.
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  • Mother Superior's dogs greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The cloistered convent is located in the historic, Colonial district of Quito.
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  • Otavolan woman in traditional dress in the Northern Sierra.
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  • Mother Superior's dog greets her in the morning in the courtyard of Convento de Carmen Alto. The convent is home to cloistered nuns in the center of the historic district of Quito.
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  • A nun makes wafers for communion at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent in the Colonial historic district of Quito.
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  • Mother Superior leads prayer during morning mass at Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • A military doctor provides medical care to woman in makeshift clinic.<br />
This is the outcome in troubled Chiapas, soldiers clash with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • Cloistered nuns pray seven times a day and otherwise remain silent.  Contemplation is the most important thing in their lives. Santa Catalina Convent, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580 and enlarged in the 17th century. In the chapel, the 30 cloistered nuns come together who live secluded inside the convent.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • Cloistered nuns pray seven times a day and otherwise remain silent.  Contemplation is the most important thing in their lives. Santa Catalina Convent, the Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580 and enlarged in the 17th century. In the chapel, the 30 cloistered nuns come together who live secluded inside the convent.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • A young child is dressed up in pink with a large flower on her hat to visit an elderly family member for tea in Quito.
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  • Novices studying to become cloistered nuns take a break from their prayers at Santa Catalina Convent to sing in the garden.<br />
The young, cloistered nuns never leave convent grounds and live a life of contemplation in Arequipa, Peru. Older nuns allow the young women free time once a day to help them adjust to the cloistered, regimented life. Having just left their families they will never see again, the vow of commitment the novices take is a serious lifelong decision.
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  • Business men take a break at an upscale coffee bar. Coffee shops are on every block in downtown Santiago where men catch a cup of coffee and maybe a kiss. The waitress wearing a short red dress works for substantial tips at Cafe Cousino or Coffee with Legs. She can make $800 a week by flirting, lighting cigarettes and serving coffee.
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  • Residents of a remote village rush to meet the supply helicopter.
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  • Waterfront Scotty's Landing offers alfresco dining with a local twist.
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  • Mescal factory workers taking a lunch break.
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  • Huastec Indian seller and an indigenous woman haggle over the price of a pig at the local outdoor market held every Sunday morning in Ciudad Valles.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Mother Superior joins other nuns for a tasty breakfast at Convento de Carmen Alto, a cloistered convent. Women in the cloistered Carmelite religious order in Quito have jobs and duties performed throughout the monastery daily.
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  • Once a week nurse checks the health of babies brought into the Well Baby Clinic by their mothers to the local hospital in Sig Sig, a rural community located in the foothills of the Andes mountains.
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  • An Aborigine family sitting outside. Two are painting a pukamani pole.
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  • A steel worker at the Wuhan iron and steel plant.
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  • At 'Michael's Genuine Food & Drink' restaurant.
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  • Songs and prayer are how nuns begin their day at Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru. The Monasterio de Santa Catalina was built in 1580. Among the 30 cloistered nuns who live in silence are five novices who study for five years to become a nun. The youngest nun is 15. The oldest is 98.
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  • Business men take a smoke and coffee break at an upscale coffee bar. Coffee shops are on every block in downtown Santiago where men catch a cup of coffee and maybe a kiss. Dressed in a short, red dress, the waitress works for substantial tips at Cafe Cousino or Coffee with Legs. She can make $800 a week by flirting, lighting cigarettes and serving coffee.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • A visitor looks out from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs State Park.
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  • An Australian Aborigine man applying body paint to his chest.
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  • The Guardian Building doorman admires the vaulted Art Deco ceiling.
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  • Heirloom tomatoes support a blackboard listing the fare of the day.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse, patiently waits under a guard dog's watchful eye as a sheepherder checks on the animals in his care.<br />
After the mustang was trained by prison inmates, the horse was sold at auction. He earned respect the first week on the ranch in the Wyoming range when he found his way back to the corral in a blizzard saving the life of his mount.
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  • A hat seller helps load a stack of straw hats onto a truck at a market that sells flowers for Day of the Dead fiesta.<br />
Heavily-loaded trucks carry red Terciopelo flowers to celebrate Mexico’s premier fiesta. Atlixco is the flower capital of Mexico exporting roses and gladiolas from the state of Puebla.
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  • Woman places flowers on a graven in Xoxocotlan for the Mexican fiesta, Day of the Dead celebrations. Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life and death and relatives bring food and drink and spend time with their loved ones in the cemetery.
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  • Matador faces a bull in Peru's oldest bullring, Plaza de Archo in Rímac, a Lima suburb. Red cape flying, sword drawn, the costumed man faces a close call with the angry beast. Bullfighting remains a passion for many Peruvians who revel in its pomp and pageantry--and its inherent danger.
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  • A vegetable garden in the Brush Park Historic District on a lot where a Victorian mansion once stood.
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  • This Mexican photographer has been selling Polaroid instant color photographs to tourists at the base of Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Falls, for 50 of his 73 years. The waterfall makes a dramatic 75-foot drop through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.  The falls and surrounding park are a draw for Mexican families for picnics.
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  • Workers collect wild agave in rural Oaxaca where 80% of the mescal made in Mexico. They use it to produce 1,000 liters of mescal a month at a small factory. The laborers cut 8-year old wild maguey instead of domestic plants with machetes they carry on their belts.
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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • Woman wrapped in plastic after getting electric stimulation treatment.
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  • A 113-year-old, the oldest man in Japan.
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  • Elderly La Scala musicians in a nursing home.
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  • Opera lessons at a nursing home.
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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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  • A transgender sex worker eats lunch at a restaurant with her aunt and a friend while they wait for their clothing to dry at the laundromat in a mall in a Quito neighborhood.
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  • Preparation for the Beef Empire Days princess contest at the Beef Empire Days Rodeo.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • Woman wrapped in plastic after getting electric stimulation treatment.
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  • A bride's father supplies caviar from his fishing camp.
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  • Workers at the Burela Bonita Festival take a moment for a dance.
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  • An accordion player in the Barcelona metro.
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  • A photographer poses with an imitation polar bear.
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  • A photographer holds a cracked housing for remote cameras used to photograph wild horses stampeding.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. He is tame enough for trick riding and is a patient, obedient, old soul.
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  • A couple rides in a limousine to the airport to take a helicopter to the Mendenhall Glacier for their wedding.
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  • After the wedding ceremony on the Mendenhall Glacier, a newly married couple waits to fly back to their cruise ship by helicopter.
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  • A big congratulations wish to a couple dressed in formal attire who donned crampons to walk on ice to be married on the Mendenhall Glacier. They took a helicopter onto the icefield and said their vows, then were toasted husband and wife.
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  • Families gather for a boat ride and check a crab pot that also contained a common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) that feeds on crabs and other intertidal, marine creatures.
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  • A volunteer takes a feral cat to the vet.
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  • Hydrated lime is spread to kill the invasive coqui frog.
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  • A woman taking private tennis lessons.
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  • A bonobo at a language research center.
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  • A bonobo at a language research center.
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  • An American photographer on assignment with an Easter Island photographer.
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  • A photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • A photographer on assignment in the Moscow Planning Center and Reproduction Maternity Home.
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  • Fish inspectors rest during pursuit of salmon poachers.
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  • Catching salmon at a fishing camp.
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  • Searching for salmon in a fishing camp near a bear carcass.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens burn a poachers camp and caviar processing area.
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  • Anti-poaching wardens destroy poacher's caviar processing area.
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  • Fish inspectors in surplus tanks get stuck in pursuit of poachers.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.
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  • An Iraqi family displaced by war awaits orders to move from temporary housing.
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  • The assistant post mistress at a post office.
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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 former wild horse stands steadfast while patiently waiting for a shepherd to check on a lamb as they work together on the Wyoming range.
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  • A once wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder. The sure footed, adopted equine is won the trust of ranchers and cowboys when he saved the life of a rider lost in a blizzard by finding his way home.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • A former wild horse now works a Wyoming range with a sheepherder. Dot was trained by prison inmates and adopted for the ranch. The first week he arrived, a herder was lost in a blizzard and in danger of freezing. The rider dropped the reins and held onto the horses neck as the sure-footed mustang found his way home.
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  • A former wild horse, adopted and trained, now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and his dog. Owners find that mustangs are sure-footed on a trail and spook less than domesticated horses.
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  • Portrait of Shirley, a float house owner near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Children help their mother unload the dishwasher in the kitchen of their home on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A couple drink a bubbly toast after their wedding ceremony in a park setting in Juneau.
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  • Father and daugter kayak on still water near Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound on Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Living on a float house in a quiet bay, a woman drives a boat to Thorne Bay for supplies and to take her children to school on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A newly married couple dances on Mendenhall Glacier. They took a helicopter onto the icefield and celebrated after the ceremony. Although dressed in traditional wedding formal wear, they were careful to step over the melting ice in their crampons.
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  • A newly married couple dances while wearing crampons and formal attire as they celebrate on Mendenhall Glacier. Many passengers arrive on cruise ships making tourism the fastest growing industry in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Dressed in formal attire, a couple donned crampons to walk on ice to be married on Mendenhall Glacier. A helicopter swept them onto the icefield where they said their vows that were recorded by a videographer to save their memory.
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  • Drivers wait for their turn to compete on a mud bog race with trucks and ATV's on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A volunteer takes feral cats to the vet.
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  • Randy Olson, a photographer at a heavy metal rock concert in Quito.
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  • Plastic recycling in Bangladesh.
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  • Descendants from Easter Island's original 30 couples.
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  • Ugandan children embrace a photographer on assignment.
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  • Tourists in cheetah-print dresses take photographs of locals in Jinka.
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