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There’s more to life than birds…

07 Sunday Aug 2016

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Korat Zoo, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, White-handed Gibbon

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This White-handed Gibbon contemplates the day.

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Offerings ~ Wat Phnom

04 Thursday Aug 2016

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Wat Phnom

03 Wednesday Aug 2016

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Spirit Dog

03 Wednesday Aug 2016

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dog, Phnom Penh, Spirit House

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This pooch settled in at the base of a Spirit House outside the temple in Phnom Penh and looks suspiciously like the dog from my New Delhi post Sleeping Dog. Will Dog appear in Thailand?

 

A brief encounter

02 Tuesday Aug 2016

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Cambodia, long-tailed macaque, Phnom Penh, southeast Asia, temple

I recently visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a conservation workshop on saving the Eastern Sarus Cranes and the wetlands they need to survive in southeast Asia. One evening our group visited a temple near the hotel and we met this little female long-tailed macaque. She and her sister were digging into the fruit found inside lotus flowers, originally brought to the temple as offerings.
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Traffic Flow

28 Sunday Feb 2016

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Delhi, population, students, traffic jam

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The previous photo of the “school bus” on the streets of Delhi is the anomaly. This is what the traffic is really like, especially on the streets of Old Delhi, a walled city within a city. The 2016 census estimates a population of 18.6 million people, which has risen by nearly a million in just two short years. Perhaps you can see the concentration necessary to navigate such a scene in the eyes of my friend – a resident of India’s capital. He prefers to drive out of the city whenever possible.

Delhi Schoolbus

20 Saturday Feb 2016

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Delhi traffic, Old Delhi, Rickshaw schoolbus, School bus

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Complete with roof rack for backpacks

Sleeping Dog

14 Sunday Feb 2016

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Delhi, dog, India, sleeping dog, Wedding clothes

One of many visual contradictions encountered in Delhi. There were stray dogs everywhere – so many that they simply blended into the mass of people and vehicles that left few voids to be occupied by any new body or object. This pooch found a private spot and added to the window dressing of one of New Delhi’s upscale clothiers.wedding_clothes_sleeping_dog

Colorful Ride

13 Saturday Feb 2016

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Delhi, ganesha, graffiti, motorized rickshaw

Even the graffiti in India is beautiful, elaborate, and celebrates the gods. These motorized rickshaws were ubiquitous, the colors brightly coordinating with all of the other human imposed colors on Delhi’s seasonally dry and earthy landscape.

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Drawing on Ancient Inspiration

12 Friday Feb 2016

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Last week I visited India for the first International Conference on the Conservation of Sarus Cranes and Wetlands in Uttar Pradesh, at a center about 5 hours from Delhi. We had just one day in the city before heading home. Our hosts took us to this Madrasa and the artist below graciously allowed me to take a photograph of his work in progress.

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Another area of the Madrasa in Delhi

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An artist drawing this section of the Madrasa

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