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  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area in the Adirondack Mountains, NY state.
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  • Route 395 runs through the town of Independence, California in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountain region. Near Independence.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Three of the eight candidates for the Biosphere 2 Project, seen at the top of the Biosphere 'mountain' during construction (before the glass canopy covered it).  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1990
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  • View from Rt. 103, a dirt road over a 4,000 meter mountain pass, in the Andes between Calca and Kiteni, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 158,159)
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  • Sutter Buttes - The worlds' smallest mountain range. Butte County, Northern California, USA. 1990.
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  • Farm windmill (broken) and water tank against the magenta dusk sky at Sutter Buttes (world's smallest mountain range). California.
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  • Dramatic spring runoff from melting mountain snow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bristlecone Pines in White Mountains, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Summer lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona from Tumamoc Hill with Saguaro cactus. Storms erupt regularly during Arizona summers due to the moist air that flows in from the Gulf of California then collides with nearby mountains and is forced upward, where it condenses into thunderclouds.
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  • Rainbow over abandoned cabin in Owen's Valley, California. Near Lee Vining on Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Alabama Hills, Owen's Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Eureka Dunes, California - the tallest dunes in the United States. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Bridgeport, Hot Spring. Jack and Evan Menzel and their friend Luke Sawyer enjoy the hot water with Luke's dad, Chris, who is drinking a beer. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Views from Highway 16 in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.
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  • Public works road project in Bhutan. This is a major highway through mountainous Bhutan. The work crews are made up of guest workers from neighboring Nepal and India. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Irrigation: pumping station at The Wind Gap Pumping Station lifts the California aqueduct water over the Tehachapi Mountains on its way toward Los Angeles. USA.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Gene Churchill, rancher near Lone Pine Station, California (photographed with his sons, Travis, 6, and Grant,4 and his horse, Ringo). He was raising his two sons alone since his wife was arrested 18 months earlier for drugs and prostitution. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tufa towers on an island in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. (lit with red flash before dawn).
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake in winter snow. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lie near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Mount Whitney pack trip - cowboys drive horse and mules to lower pasture. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Canoeing on Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Bouldering below Dead Man's Summit, on Route 395, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Eureka Dunes, California - the tallest dunes in the United States. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Streets are flooded with runoff water after a heavy afternoon summer downpour in the town of Yecora in the Sierra Mountains, near Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, with his typical day's worth of food at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20 years old; 6 feet, 5 inches tall; and 195 pounds. During a two-week stint before his second deployment to Iraq, he spends 12-hour shifts manning the radio communication tent (behind him). He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat). His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. ?Everybody hates that one. It's horrible,? he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village?one of 13 built for training exercises, with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Benton Crossing Dump - Owen's Valley, California. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Monks walk towards a partially rebuilt monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Camping in the snow  on a small island in Leith Cove, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica Peninsula.
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  • Port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • Sailboat near Akademik Vernadsky Station on Galendez Island. Built and previously operated by the British. Its claim to fame is the discovery by British scientists, at what was then called Halley Station, of the hole in the ozone layer in 1985. Antarctica.
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  • A section of the Katutura suburb in Windhoek, Namibia, near the rented house of Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds.
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  • Port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • Antarctic Peninsula after summer sunset at 11:35 PM. Because in summer it does not get dark, there are several hours each day/night with pink skies. Seen from the Scandinavian-built ice-breaker Akademik Sergey Vavilov, originally built for the Russian Academy.
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  • Sunrise, Napa Valley, CA. Seen from Menzel/D<br />
Aluisio guest house deck.
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  • Fort Irwin, California, one of the places used by the U.S. Army to train soldiers before they are deployed to Iraq.
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  • A suburb in the city of Hazard, Kentucky, where coal miner Todd Kincer lives. (Todd Kincer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A donkey at Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen. In the distance is the Khailah Palace Hotel.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets,  stands on a vantage point while photographing the city of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • Bagan, Myanmar, also knows as Burma
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  • Faith D'Aluisio looking at dinosaur footprints in Enciso. There are fossilized dinosaur footprints throughout Spain but La Rioja can lay claim to some of the best. These in Enciso tell the story of fighting between different species of the prehistoric giants. La Rioja, Spain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Military vehicles and tents used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • A Walmart truck on highway in coal mining country, Kentucky.
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  • A view from the back fields of Kibet Serem's small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He is 25 years of age.
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  • Plastic bags discarded after they were used for holding qat are blown by the wind and snagged on a desert bush near a qat market in BinAifan. Wadi Do'an, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's house is center, top. Their neighbor (to the right) is building a new house for his family directly in front of the old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. Nalim and Namgay's family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Cologne, West Germany. Coal strip mine. This huge machine is removing the overburden soil to get at the coal seam. The two operators sit in the compartment under the boom.
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  • Long distance runners pass through a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Bhu.mw2.6.xs.A portrait of Namgay, 57, family patriarch of the Material World family, in Shingkhey, Bhutan. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Photograph of Nalim and Namgay's family with one week's worth of food constructed for the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001. Nalim and Namgay's family, with whatever new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Participants at Burning Man are dressed as colored naked bicycles. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Cholla cacti. Joshua Tree National Monument.
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  • Death Valley. Skateboarding on road along Artist's Drive through Artist's Palette.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, looking at the rainbow. Photographed in 1980 prior to his writing the book.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California.
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  • Northern California Coast: Steep Ravine Beach, Marin County, California. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Northern California Coast: Shelter Cove (Lost Coast) in Humboldt County. View from the Lighthouse Inn with the Pacific Ocean rocky beach.
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  • Northern California Coast: Shelter Cove (Lost Coast) in Humboldt County. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Homes on a hill above Lake Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, Orange County, California.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red grapes that will be made into wine. The field boss watches over the pickers and keeps track of how many bins of grapes each worker picks, which is the basis of how much each worker is paid.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of cabernet sauvignon that will be made into wine for Opus One winery.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red varietals that will be made into wines. Johnson Turnbull Wine.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Port of Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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  • Two minke whales surface in iceberg littered waters in the Antarctic Peninsula, seven miles south of the Errera channel..
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  • Inca ruins and switchback road leading up from the river at Machu Picchu, Peru, seen from the summit of Waynapichu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • "Noodling" for opals at an opal mine in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
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  • Grand Canyon, Arizona. National Park Service rental cabins at the bottom. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Saguaro cactus in the Arizona desert (Carnegiea gigantea) near Tucson, Arizona, USA.
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  • Snowcapped Popocatepetl Volcano  near Puebla, Mexico.
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  • Snowcapped, smoking, Popocatepetl Volcano, near Puebla, Mexico.
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  • Santa Catarina Arch in Antigua, Guatemala, with volcano in distance.
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  • Looking down on the town of Falces, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Sigirya, Sri Lanka. 5th century fortress. This was one of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's favorite places to visit in Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur is best known for the book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • Abdul-Baset Razem, a Palestinian guide and driver in his extended family's backyard olive orchard with his day's worth of food in the Palestinian village of Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3000 kcals. He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 204 pounds. On the hilltop in the distance, Israel's 25-foot-high concrete security barrier cuts off this Abu Dis neighborhood from Jerusalem, turning a short trip into the city into an extremely long and circuitous journey requiring passage through an Israeli checkpoint on the highway. Constructed by the Israeli government to cut down on attacks and suicide bombings, the highly controversial 436-mile-long barrier was 60 percent complete at the time of this photo. For the majority of Palestinians, travel to and from East Jerusalem now requires special permits from the Israeli government?often difficult or impossible to obtain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A neighboring family of Nalim and Namgay was photographed in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan, for the Material World Project. They are shown outside their rammed earth house with all their possessions. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.(Material World pages 72-73)
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel poses with Buddhist Monks in Shingkhey, Bhutan, while on assignment shooting for the Material World Project. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, back cover, inside flap.
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  • Plowing a rice paddy in the terraced paddies in the Punakha Valley, Bhutan From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Planting rice in the terraced paddies in the Punakha Valley, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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