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  • Penang downtown mural
  • Penang restaurant
  • Penang: Blue Mansion
  • Penang: Blue Mansion
  • Penang: Curtain shop
  • Penang Peranakan Mansion
  • Penang Peranakan Mansion
  • Penang Peranakan Mansion: Head ornament made from bird feathers (see close-up next image)
  • Penang downtown mural
  • Penang: Dhammikarama Burmese Temple
  • Snorkelling on Perhentian Islands
  • Snorkelling on Perhentian Islands
  • Keranji Beach, Perhentian Islands
  • Ipoh downtown mural
  • Ipoh mural arts lane
  • Ipoh mural arts lane: The Time Line
  • Cameron Highlands: Corn variation
  • Cameron Highlands: Cactus
  • Cameron Highlands: Prioneris Clemanthe
  • Cameron Highlands: Mossy Forest
  • Cameron Highlands: BOH tea plantation
  • Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan (The Federal Territory Mosque), Kuala Lumpur
  • Malacca food market off Jalan Bunga Raya
  • Display at Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum, Malacca
  • House temple inside Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum, Malacca
  • Chillin for sunset at Las Cabañas Beach
  • Sunset at Las Cabañas Beach
  • Nacpan Beach, Palawan: The far end of the 4km beach
  • Boy is caretake of the far end of Nacpan Beach, and fisherman with one daughter
  • Nacpan Beach: Having caught only a couple of squid on his night cruise, he is still smiling
  • Nacpan Beach, Palawan
  • Nacpan Beach, Palawan
  • Seemannia sylvatica is a New World genus in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. There are four species in the genus Seemannia, primarily found in the Andean regions of South America. The name honors the German botanist Berthold Carl Seemann.
  • Asclepias curassavica, known as tropical milkweed, is native to the American tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species
  • Houses in Ayangan rice fields can only be accessed on foot
  • Batad: After harvest in July, fields are cleaned by November, walls cleaned by December, seedlings planted by January
  • Rice fields in Ayangan are harvested twice a year hence expose lush green in November
  • Chiostro di San Francesco, Sorrent
  • Old buidling in Pompei: Ex Pontificio Ospizio Femminile Sacro Cuore
  • Palestra Degli Juvenes in Pompei
  • Around the Statua del Cristo Redentore at Maratea
  • Playground in Cirò Marina with view over the Ionian Sea
  • Staircase in Catania
  • Calvary at Banská Štiavnica
  • Mestský park, Košice
  • Vlkolínec traditional village
  • Bratislava Street
  • Watching sunet on Holbox beach
  • Playa Punta Cocos, Holbox
  • San Felipe
  • Frigate bird in Parque Natural Ría Lagartos
  • Giant Egrets in Parque Natural Ría Lagartos
  • Posing with shark in Rio Lagartos
  • Vendor at Convento de San Bernardino de Siena, Valladolid
  • Convento de San Antonio, Izamal
  • Lunch on Bacalar lake
  • Los Rapidos, Bacalar
  • Maya ceremony performed at Choco-Story museum, Uxmal
  • Jorge and his dog
  • Palacio de la Música, Mérida
  • Palacio de la Música, Mérida
  • Teatro José Peón Contreras, Mérida
  • Sun shading in a Tequila factory
  • Cycling around the green north of the island
  • Fishing utensils placed on an old winch
  • Castel del Monte
  • Altamura
  • Altamura
  • Palude del Capitano national park
  • Beaches of Torre Guaceto
  • Cascadas el Chiflon, Chiapas
  • Mercado
  • Mercado
  • Wedding in Santa María del Tule
  • La rambla antojeria del mar, Oaxaca: Tuna Tartar
  • Monte Alban ruins, Oaxaca
  • Walking down temple in Teotihuacan
  • Pulqueria El Templo de Diana, Mexico City
  • Sunrise over Cañón del Cobre, Chihuahua
  • Near La Paz, Baja California
  • Playa Balandra, Baja California
  • Divorce Beach in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California
  • Baptising in Motsameta monastery
  • Camping beneath Atsunta pass (3525m), descending on Khevsureti side
  • Ruslan driving his sheep out in the morning
  • Ruslan from Chechnya, shepherd near Parsma, Thusheti
  • View from Makratela hill towards Parsma
  • Boys chilling near Alazani river
  • Parna, Sura, Ilya with friends, chilling near Alazani river
  • Climbing in las Roquas with Paradores Hotel in background
  • Plant on Tenerife
  • Perhentian Island beach
  • Boats off Perhentian Island (photo by Nadya)
  • Tasraft Naite Abdi
  • Cattle market in Imilchil
  • Cattle market in Imilchil
  • Youssef's friend working on restauration of Goulmima ksar
  • Berber band in Merzouga
  • Atlas mountains
  • Todra gorge
  • Dadés gorge
  • Mohammed folding camel from leaves in Fint oasis
  • Ait Benhaddou in sunrise
  • El Jadida: Around old town
  • Casablanca: Entrance to mosque Hassan II
  • Rabat: Ruin of old mosque in Chellah
  • Fes: Ruins over old town, dryning tanned leather
  • Fes: Tannerie
  • Fes: Bronze market in old town
  • Fes: Fish market in old town
  • Stop-over in Lisbon: Coast at Santa Maria de Belém
  • Hiking on the Páramo de Ocetá near Monguí: Amanita Muscaria
  • Hiking on the Páramo de Ocetá near Monguí (ca. 4000 m)
  • Curití plaza
  • Church in La Playa de Belén
  • Playa de Camarones
  • Playa de Camarones
  • Playa de Camarones
  • Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Flamencos
  • Bird Park - Phaesant
  • Bird Park - Rhea
  • Bird Park
  • Bird Park
  • Paranakan Museum
  • Zoo
  • Thessaloniki downtown
  • Nadya
  • Thessaloniki
  • Thessaloniki
  • Sarti, Halkidiki
  • Live Music in Bourbon Bar
  • Odessa Opera House
  • Men playing Dominoes near Vorontsov Monument
  • Kanieris
  • Kanieris
  • Segulda
  • Panama City
  • Cartagena
  • Cartagena
  • Aviario Nacional de Colombia
  • Aviario Nacional de Colombia
  • Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona
  • Santa Marta beach life
  • Lejanías
  • Lejanías - Collecting coffee beans on horseback
  • Lejanías - Preparing Tamales
  • Manizales
  • Manizales
  • Near Riosucio
  • Medellín Downtown
  • Medellín Street Food
  • Las Lajas
  • Quito
  • Ceviche, Bar la Strava, Arrecife
  • Sunset viewing in the north of Lanzarote
  • Cacuts thorns
  • Gold fish
  • Lava sand beach, Fuerteventura
  • Bulgaria: Plovdiv
  • Fountain in downtown Bucharest
  • Vassili and Vassiou
  • Living up in the mountains
  • Johan, owner of 35 cows, and Vassiou, who has two horses
  • Farmer's family on border to Maramures
  • Street Sign in Sibiu
  • Catch at Varadero beach
  • Fisherman throwing net at Varadero beach
  • Street talk in Sancti Spiritus
  • Malecon, Havanna
  • Playing chess at Malecon, Havanna
  • Street in Havanna
  • Pelican caught fish from waterat Varadero beach
  • Pelicans at Varadero beach
  • View over Chatyr Kol dividing Kyrgyzstan and China from 4100 m viewpoint
  • Little flowers grow at 4100 m on Chinese border
  • Dawn at Song Köl
  • Kyrgyz dinner with kymys (fermented horse milk) and a lot of butter
  • Little girl near her home yurt at Song Köl
  • Descending into Ak-Suu valley to Altyn Arashan
  • Morning in mountains near Karakol
  • Horses grazing in Karakol valley
  • White Sand Beach, Ko Chang
  • Sunrise over rice country
  • Sunrise over rice country
  • Sunrise over rice country
  • Valle de la Luna, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
  • Laguna Colorada, Bolivia
  • Butterfly in Puerto Maldonado
  • Butterfly in Puerto Maldonado
  • Bird at Lago Sandoval near Puerto Maldonado
  • Bird at Lago Sandoval near Puerto Maldonado
  • In the jungle near Puerto Maldonado
  • Market in Chivay
  • San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima suburb
  • San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima suburb
  • Nebaj mercado
  • Santa Avelina
  • Santa Avelina
  • Santa Avelina
  • eria in Santa Avelina
  • View from a temple at Yaxhá
  • Bird at Yaxhá sunset temple
  • Maya ceremony at Tikal Temple
  • Fishing in San Juan la Laguna
  • View from Volcan San Pedro at Cerro de Oro at Lago Atitlan
  • Thrashing of rice in November, Mae Hong Son
  • Sunrise at Pang Oung, Mae Hong Son
  • Girl cutting fish in Trunyan
  • Artist in Kintamani
  • Picking fish from the net at dusk
  • Ulun Danu temple
  • Clown fish / sea anemone at Pulau Menjangan reef
  • Rice terraces at Jatiluwih
  • Rice terraces at Jatiluwih
  • Bali beach
  • Morning mist over Borobodur temple valley
  • Kids in East-Java
  • Morning over Mount Bromo
  • Leirsure time of harbour workers
  • Nazareth cemetary
  • Akko monastary
  • Jaffa balcony
  • Cleaning up Elmina harbour front
  • Evening talk in Elmina
  • Fishermen in Elmina
  • Still carrying its umbilical cord
  • Father and child in Wli
  • Mole National Park
  • Islamic kindergarten in Tamale
  • Youth in Tamale
  • Separating the rice from the chaff
  • Sunrise
  • Stitching up the wounds
  • Now it's only about watching
  • Pampering the star for the fight
  • The lake was golden,
  • On top of the world you get nothing done
  • Harvesting palm hearts
  • Hunting in the mountains around Vang Vieng
  • Walking up a river bed near Vang Vieng
  • Life on boats in Mekong delta
  • Then it needs to cool and dry.
  • Take the dough from the stove
  • People spend their life on boats in the Mekong Delta
  • Girl of Saigon
  • Electric ignition
  • Cleaning a cramming tool
  • Pim
  • Betting on flight times
  • until farmers have a good breakfast on the field.
  • Suburbs of Phnom Penh
  • Suburbs of Phnom Penh
  • Chillin at inflow of Tonle Sap river into Mekong in Phnom Penh
  • Village near Kampong Thom
  • Village near Kampong Thom
  • This is Cambodia
  • Village entertainment near Tonle Sap lake
  • Village entertainment near Tonle Sap lake
  • Village entertainment near Tonle Sap lake
  • Swimming village on Tonle Sap lake
  • Angkor Wat sunrise
  • Angkor Wat boy
  • Traditional dance
  • Receiving wrist bands for happiness.
  • Wedding
  • the sun careful,
  • Market life
  • Have dinner to take away..
  • First love.
  • Ideas grow like flowers and explode like little stars in the brain.
  • Guitar music before the school bell sounds.
  • Selling some food, a few household items and sweets.
  • Rice work is for everyone.
  • Presenting the group for a parade
  • Preparing for a parade
  • Quiet Moment in the bustle of Vientiane morning market
  • Typical fish presentation on a market in Luang Prabang
  • Speed boat on the Mekong from Chiang Khong to Luang Prabang
  • Taking a break from a fundraising dance at Wat Doi Suthep
  • Saturday night Thai boxing
  • Sunbathing
  • Lamai beach, Ko Samui
  • Wat Phra That Doi Suthep near Chiang Mai
  • Ballet at Ermitage
  • Underpass hurry
  • Waiting for the train
  • Old man walking from St. Isaak
  • Toscana
  • D'accordo
  • Neverending (Hi)story
  • Venice Biennale