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Curious elephant checking out our vehicle

Mother and baby hippo with Red-billed Oxpeckers in Chobe National Park, Botswana

Balancing Rock in Arches National Park, Utah

Classic Santa Monica

Two indigenous Embera girls, Kimberley and Marcela, giggle on a hammock in the pacific Colombian jungle village in Choco. They are painted in traditional Embera style with the juice of the Jagua fruit

Good Job Girl !

An indigenous Cubean woman from the Colombian Amazonic province of Vaupes inspects herself in the mirror shortly after painting herself to go and work in the yucca crop in the jungle, with 'carayuru'.

An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then west

The blackened body of an indigenous Embera woman, from the Pacific Colombian jungles of Choco. They paint themselves black with the juice of the jagua fruit to alleviate mosquito bites and skin rashes

An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then wes

An indigenous Embera lady in the Pacific Colombian jungle of Choc covers her eyes with her hands which have been painted black (along with her body) with the juice of the jagua fruit in order to relie

Guardians of the Forest - Yucuna indians, deep in the Colombian Amazon, dressed in their traditional suits for the Baile del Mueco, or Puppet Dance, in which they celebrate the abundance of the chonta

Purple moorhen, locally called Kaim at Tanguar Haor also called Tangua Haor. It is a unique wetland ecosystem. Every winter the haor is home to about 200 types of migratory birds. Sunamganj, Banglades

Take a break, have some honey

chicks of cattle egret. Bengali name: Gobak. English name: Cattle egret. Common bird found near water-bodies, cultivated fields, usually near grazing cattle.

chicks of cattle egret. Bengali name: Gobak. English name: Cattle egret. Common bird found near water-bodies, cultivated fields, usually near grazing cattle.

chicks & mother of cattle egret. Bengali name: Gobak. English name: Cattle egret. Common bird found near water-bodies, cultivated fields, usually near grazing cattle.

Bengali name: Gobak. English name: Cattle egret. Common bird found near water-bodies, cultivated fields, usually near grazing cattle.

Group fishing at countryside in Bangladesh.

Swiss Mountain Village in a Thunderstorm

10th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then wes

An indigenous Nukak girl with her face painted. The Nukak are an endangered nomadic tribe from the department of Guaviare who only began to make contact with the outside world in 1988. Since then western disease and the conflict have decimated them.

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© Piers Calvert.
All rights reserved.

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digital

Date Taken:

11.2011

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Nov. 15, 2012, 10:26 a.m.

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Hasselblad

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Hasselblad H3DII-31

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80mm

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1/20

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f8

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ISO400

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