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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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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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  • Restored Colonial colonnades edge Lima's Plaza de Armas, bringing many people into the streets of Peru's capital city. The era when the City of Kings was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, established it as the showplace of Spanish South America.
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  • This Indian festival in the Ramblas Catalunya area of Barcelona is called Vaisakhi.  These are Sikhs from Punjab that started a procession in Ramblas Raval and carried it thru Ramblas Catalunya and ended at the Plaza St. Augustine. The festival includes the passing out of huge amounts of food.  The men in this street hauled cart after shopping cart of fresh fruit and passed it out to the public.
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  • Dressed up in a suit and bow tie, a young boy patiently waits for cake to be offered while attending a wedding reception in the restored Colonial colonnades edge of Lima's Plaza de Armas.  Well dressed guests mingle at the party towering over the youth.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • The grooms antics amuse the bride during a wedding reception in Khailino in Kamchatka, Russia. It is important to note that some of the theater of this wedding happened because it is Russian tradition. The community has endured great hardship and a people who have adjusted to being really kind to each other to all survive together.
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  • Physical therapy room at the largest nursing home facility in Italy.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • An Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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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 photographer on assignment on a crowded train in Mumbai.
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  • A bridge and groom stand before a heart-shaped candles of live that the community of Khailino made to celebrate their wedding. A rare event in Kamchatka, Russia. It was actually as beautiful and touching a scene as I’ve ever experienced though in the setting of a basketball court in a small town on the same latitude as Siberia.
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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 father takes his son on his roll-aboard suitcase to the bus.
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  • Models walk down a runway and across stage lights for a high fashion bridal show featuring designer gowns. The cosmopolitan city of Monterrey is modern and industrial attracting young people with money to spend.
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  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
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  • Partygoers cheer as the groom searches for his bride's garter.<br />
He lifted the bride and carried her into the warm glowing heart. They danced  and the lights came up and the festivities continued with hands-free-garter-diving in a heart-shaped flaming border of love. It is a tradition in Kamchatka, Russia.
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  • A white-gloved military parade takes over a street through the downtown Santiago.<br />
Carabineros de Chile are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmery created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country.<br />
They also re-establish order and security in Chilean society through civic education, service to the community, police work, and in a war situation, to act as a paramilitary force (all their members have military training).
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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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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Goldsmiths shed shirts and sweat while working in a crowded, hot one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Soldiers help a Mayan mother and her baby in Chiapas where the Mexican army clashed with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • A diner watches people cross El Zócalo, Mexico City's grandiose main square, from the elegant Gran Hotel's rooftop restaurant. Built atop ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlán, the zócalo is now surrounded by sprawling Spanish colonial architecture, the most prominent being the Metropolitan Cathedral.
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  • A photographer with goldsmiths in a one-room factory in Kolkata.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • Mother with baby born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • A Huastec Indian woman arranges shoes to sell at the Ciudad Valles Sunday market in the mountain region of northern Mexico.
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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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  • Women dancing in a Petropavlovsk nightclub.
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  • High school students at the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa.
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  • Costumed revelers march on the Pan American highway in San Pedro Totolapán, Mexico, on Day of the Dead. They stop traffic to solicit handouts from drivers; if no pesos appear, the driver is generally treated to verbal abuse.
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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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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A writer is carried to the Omo River's muddy shore.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • Hamar women in a bar on market day.
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  • A young Kara boy surveys the crowd at a wedding party.
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  • In Kireka, women break rocks to be used in construction materials.
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  • A baby is born at the Moscow Planning Center and Maternity Home.
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  • Unusual evening light after sunset glows from the sky warming the walls of the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas in Ariquipa, Peru.
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  • .A dog watches over as Russian fishermen pull in the nets from a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River. Strict work hours at the mouth of the river allow some of the salmon can pass through to Kanchatka’s indigenous camps further upstream. <br />
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The fish have gone into a dormant state because they have been in the net so long. This was the first great push of salmon—the storm had just passed, the tide was out and the water had cleared enough that all salmon make a mad dash upriver.
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  • The Kumkapi neighborhood, primarily immigrant, in Istanbul.
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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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  • Randy Olson, a photographer on assignment for National Geographic at a gold mine in Ghana.
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  • Arriving in Motoka on a ferry ride across Lake Volta.
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  • A man transports a mattress on the Barcelona metro.
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  • Overcome by religious frenzy, men help a woman lying on the ground.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River in Ghana. Miners worked in the tailings left by large industrial mines until run out by the military so they moved to riverbanks and work in a ruined landscape.
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  • The Nakulabye slum in Kampala.
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  • Food aid in Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten.
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  • Irrigating fields in Kara village of Labuk.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Bright orange caviar in production area of a Russian fish processing plant.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • A blurring of cultures as children dance in the street wearing Halloween masks in celebration of Day of the Dead. The American and Hispanic celebrations coincide involving masks and candy in the small Mexican town where families use burros and make mescal from agave plants.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Hamar women on market day in Turmi.
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  • Hamar women on market day in Turmi.
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  • Onlookers watch demonstration crowds on Istiklal street in Istanbul.
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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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  • Covered women photographers gather for a view of the Ruler of Alain.
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  • Gold jewelry on display in a store in Hong Kong.<br />
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Gold is extremely malleable. One ounce can be spread out over 100 square feet. It  is too soft and too scarce for most uses.  Almost ninety percent of gold is used for adornment or money.
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  • Goldbricks from a mine in Ghana are packed and sorted for transport. They export about 500,000 ounces of gold in one mine a year.
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  • Workers wear protective clothing when handling gold from a mine in Ghana as they pack and sort it for transport. Newmont Ghana gold mine pulls about 500,000 ounces a year from this mine.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • Heirloom tomatoes support a blackboard listing the fare of the day.
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  • A view from the 103 floor of Willis Tower or the old Sears Tower.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River. Artisanal miners work on the tailing piles around big industrial mines leaving a ruined landscape.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • Fields are cleared and then burned in preparation for planting.
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  • The bride and groom at their wedding reception.
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  • Tourists walk through the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the Oaxaca Valley, it is an important archeological site founded in 6th century B.C.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large sand dune in the Atacama Desert. Known as the driest place on earth, the desert is also considered the oldest. It has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • During October Festival of Bullfighting for the Lord of the Miracles, hundreds of spectators gather to critique the finesse of both red-caped matadors and bovine competitors. Plaza de Acho is Peru's oldest bull ring is located in a Lima suburb under the towering Cerro San Cristóbal mountain.
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  • Tourists stand on the ruins of Monte Alban, a Zapotec capital. It is a large pre-Columbian archeological site including pyramids and terraces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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  • Tourists in cheetah-print dresses take photographs of locals in Jinka.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Dancing in a Barcelona nightclub.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • Bars, hotels and shopping along Ocean Avenue in South Beach.
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  • Cattle have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust.
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  • A weight lifter on the beach at Lummus Park.
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  • Calves are used to lure camel mothers to the parade ground gate.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • Morning sun kisses the icy tops of winter trees in snow blanketed New York’s Central Park. An elevated view shows a walker following a curved path planned by Frederick Law Olmsted to create a greater sense of space and mystery about what was to come around the next bend.<br />
Olmsted partnered with Calvert Vaux to plan “Greensward,” and won a design competition to make the what became a beloved urban park. When the idea was conceived, New York was much smaller and no one could imagine the open space surrounded by a city with tall buildings. Olmsted was a visionary and understood that man needed nature to combat the stresses of city life.  Construction began in 1858  and was completed fifteen years later. Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and is now managed by Central Park Conservancy, a nonprofit which contributes eighty five percent of the park’s $37.5 budget.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large dune in the Atacama Desert a region in north Chile that is considered the driest place on earth. Located between the Andes and Coastal mountains, the parched desert is formed by wind and erosion.
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  • Foals hover in a corner of the pen, separated from mares and stallions following the round up by the Bureau of Land Management. Mothers nearby call out trying to find their young ones that are frightened and huddle together for safety.
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  • A shopkeeper arranges his wares in the town of Karang Pani which supports the nearby gold mining operations.
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  • A biker cruises tree lined Espanola Way in South Beach.
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  • Workers boring a tunnel that will divert the Omo River.
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  • Key Biscayne from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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