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Boy in powder.
Location: Mount Hagen Cultural Festival, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Drivin'.
A boy in a village with his 'driving stick' - a common toy for the slightly older male set.
Location: Santo island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Hotel Staffer.
Location: Joshimath, India
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Elder.
Location: Orom village, Uganda
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Boys on the Beach.
Location: Tanna island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Mother and Child.
Location: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Drivin'.
Location: Ambrym island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Sam.
Our park ranger.
Location: Kidepo Valley National Park, Uganda
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Seamster.
Location: Kolkata, India
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Young man in a hoody.
Location: Mount Hagen Cultural Festival, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Lens used: Canon 100mm f2.8 IS
Hotel Staff.
Location: Kolkata, India
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Villager.
Portrait of a villager; he was the only one I saw with ritual scaring.
Location: Orom village, Uganda
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Gate Keeper.
This young man was the head guy at the main entrance gate to the Mt. Yasur volcano.
Location: Tanna island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Market Vendor.
Location: Mysore, India
Lens used: Canon 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS
In his sights.
Location: Mount Hagen Cultural Festival, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Reflection.
Most people in this region were generally not down with having their pictures taken, so I tried a little reverse-psychology on this guy and had my guide ask if I could take MY OWN picture reflected in his sunglasses. He agreed.
Location: As Eyla, Djibouti
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Little Girl.
A little girl drags along her sandal as a makeshift toy.
Location: Dhubato village, Somaliland (Somalia)
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Hotel Staff.
Location: Ghangaria village (Valley of the Flowers), India
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Mango seller.
A Wauro Indian girl sells mangos from a makeshift dock along a side channel of the river.
Location: Orinoco River Delta, Venezuela
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Qat.
The green stuff on his lip is qat, the stimulant-of-choice in the region.
Location: As Eyla, Djibouti
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Homemade shades.
Location: Munda, Solomon Islands
Lens used: Canon EOS M 22mm f2.0
Marketeer.
Woman selling a modest mix of food items at the town market.
Location: Aksum, Ethiopia
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Village Boy.
Location: Santo island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Onions, Garlic and Potatoes.
Location: Mysore, India
Lens used: Canon 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS
Like Mother Like Daughter.
A young groundskeeper apprentice mimics her mother.
Location: Tanna island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Strolling.
Location: Zanzibar, Tanzania
Lens used: n/a (Canon S1 IS point-and-shoot)
Oral Care.
Playing with string or flossing?
Location: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Young Boy.
Location: As Eyla, Djibouti
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Moneychanger.
One effect of not being recognized as a sovereign nation is not having any banks or access to traditional loans that the rest of the world does. This makes it a cash-only economy. Buying food at the market? Cash. Need to see a doctor? Cash. Purchasing a car? Cash. Building a multi-story building in town? Cash. As someone whom relies on their credit card for day-to-day expenses while at home, my mind reels at how that would work in my own life.
In the center of the capital within a couple-block radius there are dozens of men sitting behind mountains of the local currency, the Somaliland schilling, wheeling-and-dealing 24 hours a day. At roughly 6000 schillings to a dollar and with a 500 note the largest schilling bill printed, anything more than a small daily purchase may result in you needing to lug around a brick or two (or ten) of bills.
Location: Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia)
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Truck stop Betty with grub.
Location: Los Llanos, Venezuela
Lens used: Canon 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS
Resting.
Family members take a rest on a mat under their table at the Luganville vegetable market.
Location: Santo island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Crabers.
Men sort out live Blue Crabs caught and hauled in from Maracaibo lake.
Location: Concha, Venezuela
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Child on the Riverbank.
Location: Along the Rio Beni, Bolivia
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Man on a Bicycle.
Location: Rural Northern Madagascar
Lens used: Canon EOS M w/22mm f2.0
Boys.
Boys crowd around in the back of a truck to give me a cool group shot.
Location: Ambrym island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Namba.
A kastom (i.e. traditional) man wearing a namba leans against a banyan tree.
Location: Tanna island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Child Behind Chainlink.
Location: As Eyla, Djibouti
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Kids and a mototaxi.
Location: Isla Santa Rosa, Peru
Lens used: Canon EOS M w/16-35mm f4.0 IS
Boy.
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS
Child in the River.
Location: Along the Rio Beni, Bolivia
Lens used: Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS
Watermelon Seller.
Location: Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia)
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Beggar Woman.
This beggar woman was crawling around the train station platform asking for change.
Before someone goes to India for the first time, I strongly suggest they settle with themselves the issue of whether or not to give money to beggars. Believe me, it'll come up a lot and sometimes it's really really hard not to empathize with the person begging - I still remember the young girl I saw in Kashmir on my first Indian trip with the (healed) 2nd degree burns over her face begging with me through my taxi window.
This woman wasn't nearly so hard to refuse as that girl. Still, I gave her a couple coins. But not because she was begging, but rather for her letting me take her picture.
Location: Varanasi, India
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Girlfriends, Hangin' Out.
Location: Diego Suarez, Madagascar
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Weaver.
Location: Ambrym island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Rickshaw Driver.
An inescapable part of the India experience is dealing with the auto rickshaw drivers. Some are aggressive, lying bastards. Others are straight up-and-down and pleasant. This guy was the latter - I hired him for the day to drive me to the Ellora caves and Daulatabad.
Location: Daulatabad, India
Lens used: Canon 28-135mm f3.5-5.6 IS
Run.
Monks in a hard-charging game of football.
Location: Nyaungshwe, Myanmar
Lens used: Canon 24-105mm f4.0 IS
Dance.
Kastom (i.e. traditional) men performing a dance.
Location: Tanna island, Vanuatu
Lens used: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS
Celine of France looking very cowgirl.
Location: Tupiza, Bolivia
Lens used: Canon 17-55mm f2.8 IS