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  • Odd Combination: A bird’s motion is captured atop of a wooden pylon during this long exposure, Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Odd Combination
  • Digging a Hole: Promises of white gold compels this miner to daily risk his life digging dangerous, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with no safety precautions, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.
    Digging a Hole
  • Witness to an Execution (B&W&C): A young man’s movement is captured, his face is eerily still, as he moves in between wall graffiti depicting a smiling soldiers execution of a person, Bangkok Thailand.
    Witness to an Execution (B&W&C)
  • A Monk and the Dragon: A poor monk contemplatively sits with his internal struggles, as did the Buddha, on the difficult path to Nirvana. His introspection and situation could not be more in contrast with the confidence, wealth and power of all who built the gold plated Great Shwedagon Pagoda with a Stupa and its diamond encrusted top, Yangon Myanmar.
    A Monk and the Dragon
  • 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
  • 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
  • Digging a Hole, (B&W): Promises of white gold compels this miner to dig dangerous, vertical, unsupported shafts, often to a depth of 8 meters with only a hammer and a piece of rebar, near Kuta Beach, Lombok Indonesia.<br />
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Poor men with no alternative opportunities of employment become miners and risk their lives daily, as they exhibit little skill and no safety precautions. The threat of danger was confirmed in this same hill side when two weeks prior a similar shaft collapsed and two lives were lost.
    Digging a Hole, (B&W)
  • 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 !
  • 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)
  • Dragon By Day:  A spectacular view of the golden Great Dragon Pagoda (Shwedagon Pagoda) seen in the late afternoons light, Yangon Myanmar.
    Dragon By Day
  • Great Dragon Pagoda: A spectacular night time view of Shwedagon, the golden Great Dragon Pagoda; a festive touch is added to this religious scene with strings of purple lights dangling down from an adjacent temple, Yangon Myanmar.
    Great Dragon Pagoda
  • Witness to an Execution (B & W): A young man’s movement is captured, his face is eerily still, as he moves in between wall graffiti depicting a smiling soldiers execution of a person, Bangkok Thailand.
    Witness to an Execution (B &W)
  • Hoi An Nightlife: With abandoned wooden boats in the foreground, the tourist core along with the famous walking bridge are brightly lit riverside, Hoi An Vietnam.
    Hoi An Nightlife
  • Full Moon Lanterns: Under a full moon, lanterns make for a most unusual red effect, Hoi An Vietnam.
    Full Moon Lanterns
  • Nights Independence: The Independence Monument thrusts up into the black nights sky, with a row of fountains  spraying up in the foreground,  Yangon Myanmar.
    Nights Independence
  • Enthusiastic Contrarian: All eyes are to one side as fans intensely watch a football (soccer) game, save for one man, who wears an “I love Bali” muscle shirt and enthusiastically pumps his arms in celebration, Bayan Lombok Indonesia.
    Enthusiastic Contrarian
  • Sea and Sky: The retreating waves take on a silky quality in this long exposure photo caught at sunrise, beach-side with the distant mountain held in silhouette, Baracoa Cuba.
    Sea and Sky
  • 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
  • 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
  • Thai Blue: Blue storm clouds hover over a rising blue Pacific Ocean, Ko Lanta – Thailand.
    Thai Blue
  • Koosah Falls: Silky water surges down Koosah Falls, cutting through the lush, green growth of the temperate rainforest, Oregon USA.
    Koosah Falls
  • A Whiter Shade of Pale: A young man earns his next meal playing electric guitar while wearing a white mask, near the Imperial Palace, Bangkok, Thailand.
    A Whiter Shade of Pale
  • Varadaro Sunset: People meet to play in and out of the tropical waters, oblivious to the amazing sunset in the distance, Varadaro Cuba.
    Varadaro Sunset
  • Witness to an Execution: A young man’s movement is captured, his face is eerily still, as he moves in between wall graffiti depicting a smiling soldiers execution of a person, Bangkok Thailand.
    Witness to an Execution (good one)
  • 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
  • A man, draped in a towel against the morning air, pensitively smokes his cigar during his morning tea in Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Smoke
  • Morning Reflection: A regular customer at a morning coffee shop pauses from smoking in a reflective moment, Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Reflection
  • The Ultimate Solution: Wall graffiti illustrates the execution of a person just as he has been shot by a gloating soldier, Bangkok Thailand.
    The Ultimate Solution
  • Humility: In dawns early light elderly women pray on the sidewalk, pouring water in an act of purification, as they await giving alms to local Buddhist monks, Luang Prabang Laos.
    Humility
  • Balian Ceremony: Underneath brightly coloured flags and umbrellas, a group of Hindu men and boys are clustered together on the beach during Melasti, or, purification, Balian Beach - Bali Indonesia.
    Balian Ceremony
  • Safety Free: A demolition worker stands precariously on top of a wall, free of any safety precautions, wielding  a hammer against the very wall he is holding for balance and support, Hue Vietnam.
    Safety Free
  • Wapta Falls: Green glacier waters rages through the heavily forested hillsides and then over the Wapta Falls, with a vibrant rainbow and Chancellor Mountain as witness, Yoho National Park, near Field, British Columbia Canada.
    Wapta Falls
  • Hockey Olympic Gold: Immediately after Canada won Olympic gold in Hockey; a bemused policeman tries to break up a spontaneous road hockey game on a busy city street, only to be confronted with young men pleading their case and lay Canadian flags at his feet, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Hockey Olympic Gold
  • Morning Smoke (B&W): A man, draped in a towel against the morning air, pensitively smokes his cigar during his morning tea in Shwebo Myanmar.
    Morning Smoke (B&W)
  • Finely Tuned Engine (B&W): A young man works diligently, finishing the top of an automobile’s engine in the early mornings light, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Finely Tuned Engine (B&W)
  • Insatiable (B&W): The contrast between nature and the strength of an industrial age is exemplified by this excavators’ bucket; as it pauses momentarily amongst the barren ruin and billowing smoke of a farmer’s field, Aldergrove British Columbia, Canada.
    Insatiable (B&W)
  • Insatiable: The contrast between nature and the strength of an industrial age is exemplified by this excavators’ bucket; as it pauses momentarily amongst the barren ruin and billowing smoke of a farmer’s field, Aldergrove British Columbia, Canada.
    Insatiable
  • Beggars Walk: A young crippled man, begs with cap in mouth, leaving a trail as he wiggles down the filthy roadway,  Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Beggars Walk
  • Clackamas Reflection: An autumn forest is reflected, as if painted  on the Clackamas River, Oregon, United States of America.
    Clackamas Reflection
  • Morning Row: A man slowly rows out to his fishing boat in the early morning, Hoi An Vietnam.
    Morning Row
  • Circular Serenity: A mobile of  white Buddhas hangs down from a chandelier, Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Circular Serenity
  • Patuxai: This dynamic view of the Patuxai (Victory Gate or Gate of Triumph) taken in the purple-blue evening twilight, Vientiane Laos.
    Patuxai
  • El Yunque: As fishermen attempt the last catch of the evening, the mountain of El Yunque appears to have vivid sun-rays pulsating from its silhouetted flat top, Baracoa Cuba.
    El Yunque
  • Cloud Surge: Clouds painted with the palate of a new day, surge overhead in a vivid display over Baracoa Cuba.
    Cloud Surge
  • 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
  • Salt: A shoeless woman collects the raked salt so it may be stored away , Kampot Cambodia.
    Salt
  • Raked Salt: A woman, protected from the searing tropical heat, rakes salt into collectable piles, Kampot Cambodia.
    Raked Salt
  • Sun Flare: Sunrise and a ray of light is captured as it radiates across the lens of a camera, Delta British Columbia, Canada.
    Sun Flare
  • Fine Tuning an Engine: A young man, working on the street, is refining the finish on the top of an automobile engine block in the early mornings light, Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Fine Tuning an Engine
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Face to Face (B&W): Two colourful cocks spontaneously crouch into a fighting stance, facing each other with displayed feather, ready to attack, Muang Sing Laos.
    Face to Face (B&W)
  • Safety?: A demolition worker is jack hammering concrete high on the exterior of a building, without the faintest consideration of safety precautions, Kampot Cambodia.
    Safety?
  • Storm Cloud at Sunrise: A dynamic, predominantly red and black rain cloud sweeps across the barren landscape as it encroaches upon a clear blue sky, Bryce National Park, Utah USA.
    Storm Cloud at Sunrise
  • 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
  • Surging McKenzie: After passing over the Koosah Falls the McKenzie River surges through the rugged windswept Willamette National Forest, Oregon USA.
    Surging McKenzie
  • Threads: A macro view of a well used and symmetrical thread, in a rubber plantations working press, on Ko Lanta Thailand.
    Threads
  • Sacrifice: During Melasti, the entire community watch the Hindu priests as they pray and make sacrifice with incense, food and flowers, Bali Indonesia.
    Sacrifice
  • Morning View-Bali: A glorious  early morning sunrise bathes a row of easy chairs on the Balinese coastline, near to Padangbai - Bali Indonesia.
    Morning View - Bali
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sentinel:As the Asulkan Valley Trail winds its way up,  a barren tree acts as a sentinel opposing the glacier laden Columbian Mountain range in  Glacier National Park, near to Revelstoke British Columbia Canada.<br />
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The rocky landscape is gently covered with high climbing, evergreen forests.
    Sentinel
  • Grasped Within: Grasping its fill, an excavators’ bucket transports its load through the waves of smoke that obscures the work site, Aldergrove British Columbia, Canada.
    Grasped Within
  • Salty Selfie: Salt workers pause for a photographic moment inside their warehouse, near Kampot Cambodia.
    Salty Selfie
  • 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
  • Machine Worker: In a grimy machine shop, a young masked metal worker pauses from his metal lath and labours, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Machine Worker
  • Buddhist Chandelier: A mobile of dangling white Buddhas hanging down from gold ringed chandelier, Wat Rong Khun (better known as the White Temple), Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Buddhist Chandelier
  • Beggars Walk (B&W): A young crippled man, begs with cap in mouth, leaving a trail as he wiggles down the filthy roadway,  Ninh Binh Vietnam.
    Beggars Walk (B&W)
  • 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
  • Deep Shadows: Long dark shadows stretch across this pristine mountainous landscape, Yoho National Park, Field British Columbia Canada.
    Deep Shadows
  • Emerald Sea: This tropical scene explodes with colour as a mauve sky hangs over a multi-coloured sea, with the waves crashing over a distant coral reef, Kuta Beach - Lombok Indonesia.
    Emerald Sea
  • 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
  • Surrealistic Triad: Three distinctive layers of colour and irregular shapes form a surrealistic sight; overlapping mountainous ridges are set against a blue sky to form irregular horizontal patterns at sunset, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah USA.
    Surrealistic Triad
  • Pastel Sunrise: Sunrise paints using a broad palate of pastel at Kalalock Beach, Washington United States of America.
    Pastel Sunrise
  • Koosah Rapids: The raw power of the McKenzie River is felt as the water surges through the rocky landscape near Koosah Water Falls, Oregon USA.
    Koosah Rapids
  • Sky Lanterns: Sky Lanterns reach ever higher, released for the luxury of the tourists or Farang (someone of European ancestry) in Wat Chedi Luang Wora Wiharn, Chiang Mai Thailand.
    Sky Lanterns
  • Mornings' Light: Jagged limestone hills form the backdrop for this timed photograph of the long streaking automobile lights in an early morning sunrise, Tha Khek Laos.
    Mornings' Light
  • 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
  • Steel Guitar Blues: A close-up of a steel guitar colourfully gleaming in the bright sunlight as it is being played outside a local liquor store, in Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Steel Guitar Blues
  • A dramatic, angry storm front overtakes a brilliantly red sky at sunset over Phnom Penh Cambodia.
    Angry Khmer Sky
  • Slash of Red: A dramatic slash of red cuts across a deep blue sky at sunset over, Bangkok Thailand.
    Slash of Red
  • Two colourful cocks spontaneously crouch into a fighting stance, facing each other with displayed feather, ready to attack, Muang Sing Laos.
    Face to Face
  • 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
  • Dramatic Nevada Sky: A dramatic autumn sky looms over the arid plains with mountains on the horizon and as a solitary line of well spaced trees run across the scene, Highway 93, Nevada USA.
    Dramatic Nevada Sky
  • Witness in Silhouette: A lone fishing boat stands at harbour as the sky takes on a fiery disposition; when a jagged array of clouds turn as red as the sun, Hoi An Vietnam.
    Witness in Silhouette
  • Japanese Jelly: A most incredible and memorable site of a Japanese Sea Nettle Jelly fish, displaying its intricate underside as it descends, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
    Japanese Jelly
  • Held: An excavators’ bucket transports its load through the waves of smoke that obscures the work site, Aldergrove British Columbia, Canada.
    Held
  • Barren Sunset: Smog fills the coloured sky and surround a lone barren tree, with the silhouetted mountains in the background, over Pai Thailand.
    Barren Sunset
  • A solitary paddler takes his kayak out into the Pacific Ocean during a fiery golden sunset just off Whitby Island, Washington USA.
    Kayak Sunset
  • Barren Sunset (B&W): Smog fills the coloured sky and surround a lone barren tree, with the silhouetted mountains in the background,  over Pai Thailand.
    Barren Sunset (B&W)
  • Thai Storm: A dark angry sky ominously passes over islands and an emerald green Pacific Ocean, Ko Lanta Thailand.
    Thai Storm
  • Thai Swastika (B&W&C):  The contrast between the western association of the Swastika with the notorious German Nazis and the Thai understanding of it being a revered Buddhist symbol could not be greater; yet in a strange way these two perceptions are brought together in this dramatic photograph (with selective colour) of a young man at work, wearing a German World War Two helmet with a prominently displayed Swastika, Chiang Rai Thailand.
    Thai Swastika (B&W&C)
  • Desert Adaptation: A small grouping of a most unusual plant, which looks as if it were, transplanted from another world, found in the arid Third Valley of Goblin State Park - Utah USA.
    Desert Adaptation
  • Blue to White: Just prior to the Radiant Run, a covered walkways symmetrical columns are coloured in blue light with a solitary Asiatic bust bathed in white, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia Canada.
    Blue to White
  • Polluted Sunset - Pai: Smoke from local forest fires and from the pollution that crosses over the border of nearby China, makes for a dramatic sunset, Pai Thailand.
    Polluted Sunset - Pai
  • Yard Creek: Summers end at the scenic Yard Creek, Sicamous British Columbia Canada.
    Yard Creek
  • Smile: Boys laughing, pushing, waving and generally having too much fun; all the while posing for a photograph during the full moon celebration of Maulid (the Prophet Muhammad's birthday) Anyar Lombok Indonesia.
    Smile
  • Chinese New Year is celebrated in the traditional way, with a dancing dragon, into which people place money for good luck, Ayutthaya Thailand.
    Feeding Dragon
  • The figures of young men become distorted as the joyously dance in celebration of Holi, Kolkata (Calcutta) India.
    Holi Dance
  • Barren in Pai  (B&W): Smog engulfs an agrarian landscape and compliments a barren tree at sunset, Pai Thailand.
    Barren in Pai (B&W)
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