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  • Aerial of Phillips home, St Helena, California, USA. Gardens designed by Thomas Church. USA.
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  • Sonoma County, California home with pool and gardens designed by Thomas Church. USA.
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  • Pool & courtyard of Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California. USA.
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  • Aerial of home in St Helena, California with gardens designed by Thomas Church. House and garden surrounded by vineyards.
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  • Clos Pegasse Winery banquet room in the winery caves. Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Woman enjoys an enzyme bath at the International Spa in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • A family in Dubai offers drinks and food to visitors in their home, United Arab Emirates. As an indigenous citizen of the United Arab Emirates this man's family is entitled to a substantial subsidy from the government and jobs for the males in the household. Their high standard of living is a far cry from his parents' life as nomadic Bedouin camel herders of the desert. Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Aerial of the Chateau at Chenonceaux in the Loire Valley, France.
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  • Lively weekend family lunches at the Jewel-like Shahzad Restaurant in Isfahan, Iran.
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  • Money changers with stacks of old Somali shillings.  Old Somali shillings as seen here are still used in Somalia. The government hasn't printed new money yet. Five U.S. dollars equal a 3-inch stack of 100 shilling notes. In Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war.
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  • Old Somali shillings as seen here are still used in Somalia. The government hasn't printed new money yet. Five U.S. dollars equal a 3 inch stack of 100 shilling notes. Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Peterhof, sometimes refered to as the Russian Versailles, outside St. Petersburg, Russia was built by Peter the Great in the early 1700s.
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Essential Elements computer recycling yard in San Jose. Owner and founder Bob Kaiser, seen here with a pan of gold plated parts recovered from computers, was a roofing contractor who panned for gold in California rivers on weekends until a friend told him "there's gold in computers". He started by scavenging dumpsters and now runs a multi-million dollar business recycling computers for precious metals and for scrap sales to mainland China. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside home owned by absentee Hong Kong businessman. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Woodside, California; Jamis MacNivan, owner of Buck's Restaurant in Woodside, THE place to have breakfast meetings with venture capitalists. MacNivan is demonstrating his invention of a catch-and-release fly swatter. He admires Japanese "chindogu" (literally an odd or distorted tool) and showed us a book of 101 un-useless Japanese inventions. Model Released (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Nolan Bushnell, Atari founder at home in Woodside, California, living room. Model Released (1999).
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  • View from mount Hamilton road "$" sculpture made from recycled computers. (1999).
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  • Silicon Valley, California. A sculpture made from recycled computers photographed on Observatory Drive, off Mt. Hamilton Road, overlooking the Silicon Valley and downtown San Jose. The houses in the photos are owned by people in high tech business: a high speed networking company that competes with Cisco, an Apple vice-president, and a software company executive. Neighbors volunteered their cars for the photo: Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, and a second-car Volvo. After the shoot, the wife of the Apple executive asked that we store the sculpture in the two-story atrium of her house where it resided surrounded by a spiral staircase until donated to a museum. (1999).
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  • Phillips home, St Helena, California, USA. Gardens designed by Thomas Church. USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of the Annenberg Estate in Palm Springs, California.
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  • Dining room in the caves of Pine Ridge Winery in Yountville, Napa Valley California.
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  • Tourists soak in mud baths at the Indian Springs Mud Baths in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Aerial of Phillips home in the Napa Valley with gardens designed by Thomas Church. Napa Valley, California.
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  • New house construction seen from wild horse valley road. Napa Valley, California.
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  • Vintner's Collective wine tasting bar, Napa, California. Napa Valley. Located in Napa's oldest commercial building built in 1875, the collective features wines from nearly 20 small wineries that can be tasted at the bar.
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  • Courtyard fountain with private chapel at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Gardens with fountains in the Generalife, Granada, Spain.
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  • Interior of the Parador Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Rioja, Spain.
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  • One of the many shopping centers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  • Costumed revelers at a private party during Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy, at Ca Barbarigo.
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Villagers fetch water from a village-dug waterhole in a Maasai compound, Near Narok, Kenya. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Villagers inspect the carcass of a cow they slaughtered after it swallowed more than 10 kilograms of plastic bags and became critically bloated in a village near Narouk, Kenya.  This discovery came at the cost of two cattle in a culture that values livestock highly. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Here the dead calf is removed from the birth sack. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • Villagers milk goats in a Maasai village compound during drought conditions, yielding very little milk, near Narok, Kenya. Maasai wealth is derived from the ownership of cattle, land and the number of children born to support the family business to look after cattle and goats.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai, the third of four wives of a Maasai chief with her day's worth of food outside her house in a Maasai village compound near Narok, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of January was 800 kcals. She is 38 years of  age: 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 103 pounds. Noolkisaruni has her own house for sleeping and a windowless cooking house with earth and dung chinked into the walls. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family business: cattle and goats. She is photographed here with her day's worth of food: largely maize meal and milk. The fallen tree on which her food rests was knocked down by a marauding wild elephant. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man holds up a mass of plastic bags retrieved from the stomach of a pregnant cow that became critically bloated and had to be slaughtered in a village near Narouk, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
    KEN_090225_388_xxw.jpg
  • A man makes a fire after slaughtering a pregnant cow that got critically bloated after swallowing plastic bags in a village near Narouk, Kenya. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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