Friday, November 05, 2004

Myself in Tianjin


Myself in Tianjin
Originally uploaded by Beijing Foreign Expert.
... video taping a beautiful bronze pot... I'm in the yellow jacket... with our minder looking over my shoulder in the background.

An inukshuk outside of Arviat, Nunavut, Canada

An Inukshuk...

Inukshuk


Inukshuk
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
.... a tradional artistic expression in Canada's Arctic.

Three generations..


Three Generations..
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
... show off their "amautie".. the Inuit woman's traditional costume at the Canada Day "tradional clothing" competition.

The graveyard in Arviat, Nunavut...


The graveyard...
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
.... is a difficult place to lay the community's souls to rest... the permafrost makes digging the graves quite difficult.

A ship's visit is an important moment in all Nunavut communities...


A ship's visit...
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
All heavy cargo gets delivered to town via ship as Arviat has no road or rail connection to the outside world... just air and water connections... as with all of Nunavut's communities.

A steel hull


A steel hull
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
.. said to be the remnants of boat that brought some southern settlers to Arviat, Nunavut.

An old arctic willow tree


An old arctic willow tree
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
... near Arviat Nunaut reached about 6 inches in height.

A sunset...


A sunset...
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
... a the end of Arviat's road-to-no-where

A ptarmigan...


Ptarmigan...
Originally uploaded by Arviat Nunavut.
in in its fall, 'tween season, feather display.. photographed on the "road to nowhere" just outside of Arviat, Nunavut,

The grind...


The grind...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
... of making wheat into flour.. is a local task in Orissa.. not a thing done by some far-away corporation.

An Indian father carries his son...


Dad and his son..
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
... into the village square get the boy's polio vaccination.

An Indian family in Orissa..


The family..
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
.. wais to get their kids and grand-kids protected against polio

An Indian grandmother...


Grand-ma
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
.. holds her grandchild and waits her turn for a polio vaccination..

Granny & the grand-kids


Granny & the kids
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
.... waiting for a polio innoculation.. as part of India's effort to irradicate the disease.

Many of India's babies die...


Many bapies die...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
.. in Orissa when mother use formula instead of breast feeding due to bad water.. or poor formula.. Breast feeding is best..

Mutton..


Mutton..
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
... mutton.. who's got your goat?
No one eats the beef from India's sacred cows... so mutton is one of the sources of proten available to the Indian farmer.

Two development workers...


Two development workers...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
. at Gram Vikas... doing the mounds of paperwork that an Indian office demands.

The kids in Orissa India...


The kids...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
.. as kids everywhere.. would gather 'round whenever I sat down to talk to someone... this time I did a quick turn about and snapped this image of them..

The Indian farmer's most important tool...

.. the handmade plow.. locally made because that's all the farmer can afford..

The monsoon...


The monsoon...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
... passes by my back window at Gram Viks, Mahoda near Berhamapur, Orissa, India

Another family..


Another family..
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
awaits the polio vaccine in the Ganjam District of Orissa, India

Gathering firewood...


Gathering firewood...
Originally uploaded by Orissa.
... in Mahoda (Ganjam District, Orissa India) a lady gathers the day's firewood by chopping up a dead tree with a machet.