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  • A vending machine selling votive candles in the cathedral in the town of Pals, Costa Brava, Spain. Pals is a medieval town in Catalonia a few kilometres from the sea in the heart of the Bay of Emporda on the Costa Brava.
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  • Candles illuminate part of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • A monk lights candles as he prepares for prayer at a Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan Plateau.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day. Candles in the rain make plinking and sizzling sound when hit by raindrops.
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  • Ewa Ledochowicz family on All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland. Borys and Olga light candles.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
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  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.
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  • Lighting candles in a graveyard on the Day of the Dead in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Perennial Burning Man attendee Nambla the clown (NAMBLA is an acronym for North American Man Boy Love Association) sports a crown of candles and dripping wax. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • At the Bone Chapel complex at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. (main church on All Saints Day with decorated graves with candles).
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  • Placing votive candles in a Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Gabriel Calixta praying and lighting candles in the cemetery chapel at Solola, Guatemala on Lake Atitlan.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • Brilliant spectacles of light from handheld towers of candles, held by priests and other Hindis during religious rites (pujas). Colorful and popular Dasasvamedha Ghat gets a lot of attention from religious pilgrims, locals, and tourists alike and is one of the busiest bathing ghats in the city of Varanasi.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
    IND_040414_282_xw.jpg
  • Boontham Khuenkaew places an offering of cucumbers, red pork, bamboo shoot stew, shrimp-paste, and rice before the spirit house in his yard. Spirit houses are the abodes of the many spirits that Thais regard as integral parts of the land. Because the spirits have the power to cause trouble, Boontham periodically placates them by lighting candles and placing a good meal there. He puts a little rice on the ground, and adorns the house with flowers. Published in Material World page 85. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand.
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  • Young girl lighting a candle under a large stone cross outside the Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Empty wine glasses at a restaurant in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Worshipers perform religious rituals at Longshan Temple in Taipei, Taiwan.
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  • Maastricht, The Netherlands. Holland.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA.  ((PRIV)).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio lights incense underground in Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Irene and Dean Sarnelle's house, Staunton, Virginia
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Woman with blue umbrella, blurred in motion. Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day.
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  • Ewa Ledochowicz family, All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland. Visiting one of many family member's graves. Ewa's mother in law, Honorata Wierzonska.
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  • Lodz, Poland, cemetery on All Saints Day. Man whose wife died earlier in the year decorates her grave.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Clos Pegasse Winery banquet room in the winery caves. Calistoga, Napa Valley, California.
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  • Napa Valley, CA at Thanksgiving time 2010 with Menzel and D'Aluisio family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA.  ((PRIV)).
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda at dawn in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country.
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  • Sunest from Pyathada Pagoda, Bagan, Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Bagan (also spelled Pagan) Plain on the banks of Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar, is the largest area of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world. More than 2,200 remain today, many dating from the 11th and 12 centuries.
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  • Lourdes is a world pilgrimage center for Catholic faith healing. It has 5 million visitors per year. Lourdes, France.
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  • Wenceslas Square. Memorial for Velvet Revolution. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Day of the Dead gravestone, at Todos Santos de  Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Friends and family celebrate Josh Bainton's 14th birthday party on Saturday night at The Crown, the neighborhood pub. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 143). /// The Bainton family of Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire, England, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Pilgrims performing ceremonies on the banks of the Shipra River while bating during Kumbh Mela festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.  Participants of the Mela gather to cleanse themselves spiritually by bathing in the waters of India's sacred rivers. Kumbh Mela is one of the largest religious festivals on earth, attracting millions from all over India and the world. Past Melas have attracted up to 70 million visitors.
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  • A procession leaving a neighborhood church during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Hooded penitents in a night-time procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • A procession leaving the cathedral during holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day. Nun and woman carrying flowers blurred in motion, created by panning. Nun run.
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  • Wiezowski/Ledochowicz family. All Saints Day at cemetery in Lodz, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Warsaw, Poland. Powazek Cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland. Nuns' graves.
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  • Inside the church at Mission San Juan Capistrano. San Juan Capistrano, California, USA.
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  • Altar inside the main chapel of the Soledad Mission, Soledad, California, USA.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio descending the stairs of the Menzel D'Aluisio cave in Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Dining room in the caves of Pine Ridge Winery in Yountville, Napa Valley California.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio at the Harvest Festival dinner at V. Sattui Winery, in St. Helena, Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Annalien Vietnamese Restaurant in downtown Napa, California. Napa Valley. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Faith D'Aluisio on lower staircase of Menzel & D'Aluisio cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
    BUR_120131_026_x.jpg
  • VEN_01_xs.A procession carrying a float of a dead Christ in a glass coffin in Caracas, Venezuela during Holy week/ Easter..
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  • Visitors from Zia Pueblo, San Isidro inside of the Chimayo Sanctuary on the road to Taos, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. It is dedicated to the Madonna where supposedly a miracle occurred.
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  • Gabriel Calixta praying in the cemetery chapel at Solola, Guatemala on Lake Atitlan.
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  • French family at home in Paris, France. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Wenceslas Square. Velvet Revolution memorial. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Serving potatoes, vegetables and rouladen (a traditional German entree) at a dinner party in the Melander's dining room. Rouladen is a favorite meat dish of the family. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • Hooded penitents in a night-time procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
    SPA_123_xs.jpg
  • A hooded penitent in a night-time procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio in their cave. Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma). The gold-leafed Buddhist Pagoda and surrounding shrines is the most important religious site in the country..
    BUR_120131_418_x.jpg
  • Wenceslas Square. Velvet Revolution memorial. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Hooded penitents in a procession during Holy week in Madrid, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Coco Simone Finken, a teenage vegetarian who lives in the city of Gatineau*, Quebec blows birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of October was 1900 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 130 pounds. The family doesn't own a car, buys organic food if it's not too expensive, and grows some of their own vegetables in their front yard. MODEL RELEASED
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Dinner for Phil Woods, publisher of Ten Speed Press at home of Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison, Napa Valley, CA. Phil Woods died shortly after.
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  • Dinner for Phil Woods, publisher of Ten Speed Press at home of Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison, Napa Valley, CA. Phil Woods died shortly after.
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  • The Qureshi family of Lorenskog, Norway, an Oslo suburb. Pritpal Qureshi, 49, preparing chapati, unleavened flat bread, in her kitchen. Model-Released.
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  • Hooded penitents in a procession during Holy week in Seville, Spain. Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. People carry statues of saints on floats or wooden platforms, and an atmosphere of mourning can seem quite oppressive to onlookers.
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  • Far Niente Winery caves private tasting room. Napa Valley, California.
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  • The bar/lounge of NV Restaurant in Napa, California. Drinks left to right are: Tantaliziång Mandarin, Un-tie My-tie, and Rick's Perfect Pineapple.
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  • A home shrine in the of house Shashi Kanth, next to their TV. Shashi Kanth is a call center worker who works at an AOL call center in Bangalore, India.  (Shashi Kanth is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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