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  • Surprise!: A young tourist is taken by surprise standing by a ruin; with an ancient and seemingly amused female statue in the background, Angkor Wat, Siem Reap Cambodia.
    Surprise !
  • A female fish monger looks up from her work, peeking out from behind an oriental hat and handkerchief that otherwise covers her face, at the morning market in Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Peeking
  • Close Up: A close up of a couple of female mannequins standing naked, one behind the other, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Close Up
  • Contemplation: With the rear perspective of many meditating devotees, rows of golden statues female disciples face the Buddha, in Wat Thepthidaram Worawihan, Bangkok Thailand.
    Contemplation
  • Praying Golden Phikshuni: Inside Wat Thepthidaram Worawihan there are 52 small Phikshuni statues, which are representations of female Buddhist monks made of gold leaf covered brass, all meditating, sitting or praying in front of the Buddha serve to honor the Buddhist Phikshuni order, Bangkok Thailand.
    Praying Golden Phikshuni
  • Beautiful Circles: A young joyous lady seems willingly captured within circles of light, as she dances with LED hula hoops on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Beautiful Circles
  • Breakfast in Myanmar: A woman bends over a hot fire preparing yet another meal at the morning market, Myinkaba Myanmar.
    Breakfast in Myanmar
  • Colourful Couple: A colourful portrait of a Cuban couple is on display at a local outdoor cultural event in Baracoa Cuba.
    Colourful Couple
  • A Study: Viewed from the back, the silhouette of a woman is seen contemplating a large frame-less modern painting, Met Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA.
    A Study
  • Muang Sing Market: A woman in traditional dress sells her meagre wares in the Muang Sing morning market, Laos.
    Muang Sing Market
  • Despondent: An elderly despondent woman squats as if in prayer, in front of her ramshackle hut, Muang Sing Lao.
    Despondent
  • Sacrifice: During Melasti, the entire community watch the Hindu priests as they pray and make sacrifice with incense, food and flowers, Bali Indonesia.
    Sacrifice
  • Cutie: A young woman construction worker, somehow able to work in the excessive tropical heat while protected from the sun by being fully clothed, peaks out from her hat and scarf revealing an angelic look, Battambang Cambodia.
    Cutie
  • Long Road (B&W):  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.
    Long Road (B&W)
  • Come and Get It: This example of street graffiti was found in a back alley and consists of a decal of a most attractive and provocatively dressed woman; in vinyl with high boots, squatting down with a hole suggestively punched into her genital area while holding two over sized guns, in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Come and Get It
  • Long Road:  A mother and her young, dirty family slowly traverse a hot dirt road home loaded down with water, Muang Sing Laos.<br />
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    Long Road
  • Digitally Discrete: An all too common example of sexual repression is found in this digital representation of an alluring woman’s' face, dissected horizontally with slashes of black, Bangkok Thailand.
    Digitally Discrete
  • Young Surrealist: A rather surrealistic painting of a young lady and the thoughts and experiences that follow her, Baracoa Cuba.
    Young Surrealist
  • Train Waiting: A middle aged couple spend the hours waiting for a train sleeping on a sidewalk in Santiago de Cuba - Cuba.
    Train Waiting
  • Bac Ha Flower: A young lady waits in the traditional dress of the Flower Hmong Hill Tribe, during the morning market in Bac Ha Vietnam.
    Bac Ha Flower
  • Hard Days Work: A woman putting in a hard day’s work, carrying buckets of a seemingly endless supply of muddy excrement, from a work site in Mandalay Myanmar.
    Hard Days Work
  • Modern Life: Cell telephones have become ubiquitous the world over as illustrated by these traditionally dressed hill-tribes women near Pai Thailand.
    Modern Life
  • Aka Harvest: In this ethnically distinct Aka village, the people are protected from evil spirits with warning symbols that guard the village’s entrance and the people eke out a subsistence living as shown by this Aka woman in traditional dress spreading out onions to dry in the sun, near to Muang Sing Laos.
    Aka Harvest
  • Masked Smile: A woman construction worker is completely covered in heavy clothing and hat that protect her from the blazing tropical sun, near Pai Thailand.
    Masked Smile
  • Bangkok Streets (B&W): A young man in dread locks holds down a distressed, beautiful woman and awaits the police and an ambulance; claiming he was owed both his room key and money, near Khaosan Road - Bangkok Thailand.
    Bangkok Streets (B&W)
  • Bangkok Streets: A young man in dread locks holds down a distressed, beautiful woman and awaits the police and an ambulance; claiming he was owed both his room key and money, near Khaosan Road - Bangkok Thailand.
    Bangkok Streets
  • Damaged Goods: A unique form of graffiti is both revealing and disturbing; a paper cut out of a beautiful, naked woman with a torn face makes a commentary on the contrasts of beauty, violence and experience, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Damaged Goods
  • School Days: This dated school room is a gate way to the ways of the past; including the old flag, desks, chalk boards, wooden floors and teacher, Langley British Columbia Canada.
    School Days
  • Night Moves: Young women dance the night away with LED hula hoops on the campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia Canada.<br />
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This was part of a night time celebration during the charity Radiant Run.
    Night Moves
  • Lady of the Flower Hmong: A young lady stands in the colourful traditional clothing and head-dress of the Flower Hmong Tribe, with her purchase, in the morning market in Bac Ha Vietnam.
    Lady of the Flower Hmong
  • Morning Fruit: In the morning market a woman takes a moment for herself, as she rests, her head adjacent to a basket of fruit, Hue Vietnam.
    Morning Fruit
  • Morning Lorry Home: After the shopping at the morning market, a group of women who are dressed to stave off the morning chill, mount the back of a fully loaded lorry for the long ride home, Myinkaba Myanmar.
    Morning Lorry Home
  • Sitting and Waiting: An elderly woman is dressed for the morning chill and is captured waiting, with the story of her life etched on her face, Pai Thailand.
    Sitting and Waiting
  • Red Dao Smile: A smiling member of the Red Dao hill tribe, selling trinkets on the sidewalk of Sapa Vietnam.
    Red Dao Smile
  • Long Neck Portrait (B&W): This frontal portrait captures a gentle weariness upon a woman’s face; as a member of a Long-Necked Karen hill tribe she sits in front of her hand made cloth while wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
    Long Neck Portrait (B&W)
  • Hmong Woman: A woman, of a local Hmong hill tribe, wearing a mixture of modern and traditional clothing, as well as  numerous large silver earrings, Sapa Vietnam.
    Hmong Woman
  • An older woman wears both thanaka on her face and her head dress as she pauses from her kitchen chores, Inle Lake Myanmar.
    Morning Madame
  • Resting Black Hmong: An elderly woman of the a local hill tribe, the Black Hmong, rests for a moment from a futile attempt to sell her craft work, Sapa Vietnam.
    Resting Black Hmong
  • Flower Hmong Dress: A woman is huddled against the cold at the morning market, proudly displays her traditional dress of the Flower Hmong tribe, Bac Ha Vietnam.
    Flower Hmong Dress
  • Ready to Face the Day: Even though it was approaching 30 degrees centigrade (86 Fahrenheit), this young child is bundled up, as if ready to play in snow, her face painted with thanaka to protect her from the harsh sun, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Ready to Face the Day
  • Trading Places: The temporary role reversal between an American photographer, who hoists a heavy load to his forehead and a Yao woman, while a local gentleman fumbles with and almost drops the photographers expensive camera, in Muang Sing, Laos.
    Trading Places
  • Proudly Corporate?: In the early morning market, a woman tribesman is draped in a cloth that proudly displays the modern corporate signage for "Coca Cola" across her back, Louang Namtha Laos.
    Proudly Corporate?
  • Salt Warehouse: A salt worker returns to the salt-pan after depositing her load in a ram -shackled warehouse, near to  Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt Warehouse
  • Raked Salt: A woman, protected from the searing tropical heat, rakes salt into collectable piles, Kampot Cambodia.
    Raked Salt
  • Clean Work: A fully laden woman carries her cleaning supplies through the busy morning market, Mandalay Myanmar.
    Clean Work
  • Long Neck Portrait: This frontal portrait captures a gentle weariness upon a woman’s face; as a member of a Kayan Lahwi tribe (Long-Necked Karen hill tribe) she sits in front of her hand made cloth while wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border near Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
    Long Neck Portrait
  • Morning Smoke: A lady laughs with a friend as she smokes from one of the largest hand rolled cigarettes I have ever seen, in the morning market, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Smoke
  • Kalaw Bundle:  A woman deftly negotiates the morning market, using a head band to carry both her filled woven basket and an over-sized bundle that rests on top, Kalaw Myanmar.
    Kalaw Bundle
  • Hidden Violence: An advertisement against domestic violence depicts a young ladies bruised face and was found next to a secured home front doorway, which unfortunately mirrors the situation found in many a household, Trinidad Cuba.
    Hidden Violence
  • Hoi An Market: An elderly woman, with a weathered face, tends to her stall in the morning market in Hoi An Vietnam.
    Hoi An Market
  • Hmong Mother and Child: A young mother, of a local Hmong hill tribe, wearing a mixture of modern and traditional clothing, proudly holds her new born child, Sapa Vietnam.
    Hmong Mother and Child
  • Plucked :  A woman sits well dressed against the cool morning air, plucking another chicken for the local morning market in Myinkaba Myanmar.
    Plucked
  • Unhappy No More: This previously, profoundly unhappy woman, transformed into a kind loving creature, when asked for a photograph, Kep Cambodia.
    Unhappy No More
  • Salt: A shoeless woman collects the raked salt so it may be stored away , Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt
  • Flower Child:  A young mother and child hold court with their friends, all of the Flower Hmong tribe, in the morning market at Bac Ha, Vietnam.
    Flower Child
  • Bon Voyage (B&W): A minimalist view of a mid-day ocean side dock, makes an abstract impression, Ko Muk Thailand.
    Bon Voyage (B&W)
  • Shadows (B&W): An elderly woman, sits riverside with her candle lit offerings, gazing out through the shadows, Hoi An Vietnam.
    Shadows (B&W)
  • Road Crew Smile: A worker takes a moment from the chore of road construction, glancing up into the camera she can't help but smile at her new found celebrity, New Bagan Myanmar.
    Road Crew Smile
  • Sitting and Waiting (B&W): An elderly woman is dressed for the morning chill and is captured waiting, with the story of her life etched on her face, Pai Thailand.
    Sitting and Waiting (B&W)
  • Painfully Bored: A group of traditionally dressed Cambodian dancers rest and amusing themselves in the shade of ancient ruins, the exception; a young man who looks to be both terribly bored and dejected, Bayon of Angkor Thom, Siem Reap Cambodia.
    Painfully Bored
  • Maulid Nabi Celebration: The village women in traditional dress, perform a harvest ceremony in which they pound rice in a long wooden vessel with bamboo poles and this also coincides with the celebration of  Maulid Nabi (the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday), Anyar Lombok Indonesia.
    Maulid Nabi Celebration
  • Cabbages: A farmer bends over to work in her field, her back side in a green sarong blends in the rows of cabbages, Sembalunbumbung Lombok, Indonesia.
    Cabbages
  • O’ Canada: A young woman in an obvious state of euphoria in downtown Vancouver, waves two Canadian flags over her head, right after Canadian Men’s Hockey team won Olympic Gold,  Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    O’ Canada
  • Salt on the March: Salt workers working in stifling heat, walking shoe-less carrying the final product in bamboo baskets,  Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt on the March
  • Unhappy: Never before had I seen anyone with such a constant state of anger and unhappiness, than I had when I beheld this woman at the local seaside crab market in Kep Cambodia.
    Unhappy
  • Competition: A woman sews her own tribal offerings in direct competition to a fashionable store that sells idealized local women’s wear to foreigners, Sapa Vietnam.
    Competition
  • Here’s Looking at You:  Raised under an oppressive regime, this man faces forwards, all the while looking with intent out the side of his face, Kalaw Myanmar.
    Here’s Looking at You
  • Morning Madame: An older woman wears both thanaka on her face and her head dress as she pauses from her kitchen chores, Inle Lake Myanmar.
    Morning Madame
  • Disillusioned: In the morning market an elderly woman wears a profoundly disillusioned  expression, born of her lifes' experience, Hue Vietnam.
    Disillusioned
  • Market Breakfast: Sitting amongst her baskets of grain in the morning market, a woman takes the time to peel an orange and reflect, Mandalay Myanmar.
    Market Breakfast
  • Spray painted graffiti art of a beautiful waitress; depicted in a tight outfit over her supple figure, was found on a brick wall of a back alley way in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
    Service With a Smile
  • Life’s Burden: A woman in a brightly coloured head scarf leans forward as she bears the weight of her wares, borne by a wooden yoke, Muang Sing morning market, Laos.
    Life’s Burden
  • Hidden Violence (B&W):  An advertisement against domestic violence depicts a young ladies bruised face and was found next to a secured home front doorway and unfortunately mirrors the situation found in many a typical household, Trinidad Cuba.
    Hidden Violence (B&W)
  • Young Mother: A young mother of the Hmong, a local hill tribe, pauses with child on her back, Sapa Vietnam.
    Young Mother
  • Rice Harvest: The village women in their traditional dress, perform a harvest ceremony in which they pound rice in a long wooden vessel with bamboo poles, Anyar Lombok Indonesia.
    Rice Harvest
  • Asleep Together: A young father and daughter sleep in each other’s arms, while sitting on a park bench in the busiest part of Havana Cuba
    Asleep Together
  • Salty Selfie: Salt workers pause for a photographic moment inside their warehouse, near Kampot Cambodia.
    Salty Selfie
  • Clash of Culture: After attending the morning market, a local tribe’s woman in traditional dress stands bathed in the morning light alone at a street side corner, in stark contrast to the modern vehicles of a busy city, Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Clash of Culture
  • Sunset of Hope: A young girl facing an inevitably dark life of poverty and disappointment, stands alone gazing upon the beauty of a tropical sunset, as distant and transient as hope, Tanjung Pedau Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Sunset of Hope
  • Kalaw Market: A woman in tribal red head-dress gathers a handful of plants sold at her curb side stall in Kalaw Myanmar.
    Kalaw Market
  • Very Long Portrait: The angular portrait view of a woman of a Long-Necked Kayan Lahwi tribe tribe wearing the characteristic brass rings around her neck, on the Myanmar border, near Mae Hong Son Thailand.
    Very Long Portrait
  • Mystical Thai Mural: An intricate and colourful wall mural depicting mythical creatures, in this case a bare breasted woman with a lower body of a bird, dressed in traditional Thai clothing, Tritotsathep Temple, Bangkok Thailand.<br />
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All around the woman are scenes of the country side including trees, a river and fields, also, another similar creature is in the upper aspect of the mural.
    Mystical Thai Mural
  • Nap Time: Down on the docks, a lady takes a morning nap in her hammock underneath a worn metal table, Yangon Myanmar.
    Nap Time
  • Phone Call: A woman makes a telephone call beside a deep blue wall, with the line of the base of the wall and the shadow of the phone booth converge in the corner of the photograph, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Phone Call
  • Top Up-Bottom Down: In between beautifully restored antique automobiles - one with its top up, a French tourist drops her drawers (bottom down) to celebrate her last day of vacation and leaving for me an interesting view on life, Havana Cuba.
    Top Up - Bottom Down
  • Boys & Girls: Two high school boys take time to gaze out from an iron gate, into the school yard and the numerous teenage girls within, which are clad in shorts and partaking in gym class, Cienfuegos Cuba.
    Boys & Girls
  • Morning Market: Women, with their meager offerings before them, stand in the morning market’s sunlight, Muang Sing Laos.
    Morning Market
  • Morning Reflection: A regular customer at a morning coffee shop pauses from smoking in a reflective moment, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Reflection
  • Far Away Eyes (B & W):  Close-up and disturbed;  this cold black and white figure is a study of tortured introspection, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes (B & W)
  • Khmer Beauty: A beautiful young lady dancer, dressed in the traditional Khmer fashion, awaits her cue amongst the ruins of Bayon Angkor Thom, Siem Reap Cambodia.
    Khmer Beauty
  • Far Away Eyes, Blue: Close-up and blue; this cold metallic figure is a study of tortured introspection, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes, Blue
  • Night Market: The Buddhist temples form the background for the remnants of the night market as the vendors pack their goods away, Wat Chong Kham and Wat Chong Klang, Mae Hong Son Thailand.
    Night Market
  • Dance of Faith: During Melasti, with the entire community in attendance, Hindu priests dance and make sacrifice of incense, food and flowers, Pemuteran-Bali Indonesia.
    Dance of Faith
  • Far Away Eyes: A close-up of a painted metal statue of a person deep in thought, with cobwebs covering the eyes, Gardiner Oregon USA.
    Far Away Eyes
  • Balinese Celebration: After parading through town, a Hindu priest leads the faithful in traditional dress, as they hoist brightly coloured umbrellas, banners, and offerings, to celebrate Melasti (the purification in the sea), Pemuteran Bali, Indonesia.
    Balinese Celebration
  • Singapore Sleep: A man is found fast asleep on the stone walkway in the heart of the financial district, Singapore City, Singapore.
    Singapore Sleep
  • Clean Water  (B&W): A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water (B&W)
  • Clean Water: A lady risks the garbage and filth to use a manual water pump and fill a container with water, Mymensingh Bangladesh.
    Clean Water
  • Dashaswamedh Ghat: A vivid kaleidoscope for the senses, where the cities buildings, temples and boats coalesce at the shore of the holy Ganges River and Hindu devotes make their pilgrimage, Varanasi India.
    Dashaswamedh Ghat
  • Childhoods Perception: Graffiti of a young girl portrayed on a power box, with her duality separately expressed onto its two front doors, in two separate painting styles; one half is clear and conventionally painted, the other, stressed and distorted, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
    Childhoods Perception
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