Balinese duck tender with traditional wide-brim rain hat under an early monsoon drizzle - returning from the paddy fields along a path through the original Monkey Forest near Padang Tegal Village, Ubud, Bali.

Digital slide scan, shot with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4) - before modernization and the onslaught of mass tourism that now compromise much of Ubud's original charm, circa 1972. expl#32

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A Dogon woman with calabash carrying bowls makes her way across the rugged crest of the Bandiagara escarpment in central Mali, West Africa.

She is on a long weekly trek to market that begins in one of the small adobe villages nestled among giant boulders at the base of the sandstone escarpment. Ancient walking trails that connect the villages in the sandy semi-desert plains below ultimately converge at a steep and stony staircase on the cliff’s sheer face leading to the market on the escarpment plateau.

The Bandiagara escarpment and its rocky scree has transformed over the centuries into a vast cultural landscape consisting of huge sandstone rock slabs riddled with holes, faults, burial caves, rock shelters and secluded adobe villages embedded in cavities high on the steep cliffside.

Noritsu Koki QSS-31 digital film scan, Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4), circa 1976. expl#28

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Returning the photographer's gaze - sometimes with a proud and knowing smile, an indignant look of resistance and mimicry, or a long studied stare as the observer becomes the observed. The gaze is returned, the observer othered. Subject owns the gaze for a frozen moment.

A proud Maasai herder (warrior age-set) vogued this pose near the crater rim in the Ngorongoro Highlands of northern Tanzania. Elegantly adorned with glass-beaded necklaces, medallion and wrist band; an amber bracelet; stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves and copper pendants.

High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a compact semi-automatic Pentax point-and-shoot film camera (38~105mm AF), circa 1997. expl#46

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Maasai herders (warrior age-set) on a shortcut traverse across the crest of the Ngorongoro Crater Rim in northern Tanzania, East Africa. Digital film scan, shot with a semi-automatic Pentax pocket camera (38~105mm AF), circa 1997. expl#74

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A late autumn sun sets behind the towering red-granite pinnacles and phantasmagoric rock formations of Les Calanques on Corsica's rugged west coast. A dramatic red shadow is cast over the craggy granite staircase leading to the ancient Genoese Tour de Porto.

The 16th-century watchtower stands guard at the entrance to the Gulf of Porto - one of 85 towers built around the island in the same period. The series of towers served as part of an elaborate coastal defence system constructed by the merchant state of Genoa when it was a dominant power in the Mediterranean.

A classic Corsican vista. Took nearly three months to catch the setting sun at this exact position under a clear autumn sky. High-resolution Noritsu Koki QSS-31 digital slide scan, shot with an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SMC Pentax Zoom 45~125mm f/4). explore#144

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