Giving and receiving, part of a series of
photographs of spiritual healing TOP
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Top of the world ... Cathedral Rock, Arizona, one of a series of
pictures on the 'rocks' near Sedona, life with the Havasupai native
Americans at the bottom of a canyon, and native American
medicine wheel rituals TOP
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Novice photographer ... a Lao novice monk tries
the kind of technology he can only dream about.
One of hundreds of studies from Laos & S E Asia
including UXO clearance and the Chinese Vegetarian
Festival in southern Thailand. See
www.laos.co.uk,
plus slide shows/talks available at no cost TOP
Dog days ... walking the dog is more than something that is necessary. It
is
a social experience, a useful network of information and friends, exercise and
an enjoyment. This is one of series on dog walking in Linton. TOP
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Fixed focus ... that moment, in the dentist's chair,
when everything in your mind is concentrating on
what is being done to you. This is part of a series
taken with a handheld 35mm using a wide-angle
autofocus lens to photograph myself and the dentist
as he works. An 'exhibition' of these photographs
can be seen on the British Dental Association website
until the end of January at www.bda-dentistry.org.uk
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Driller thriller ... one of several hundred photographs at the Chinese
Vegetarian Festival in the monsoon days of October in southern Thailand.
The festival is a purification occasion, deeply religious in honour of the nine
emperor gods that the community believes in. Slide show and talk available
at no cost TOP
Killing fields ... This is Dang. If you can see pain in his face and on
his
body, it was caused by a 'bombie' - a cluster bomblet, more than
a quarter of a century old. He and his five-year-old cousin Chanthone found it
near
their village in the northern Laos province of Xieng Khouang - one of the most
bombed places on Earth. It exploded as they played. Chanthone's head injury
could not be treated outside the capital, Vientiane, and so the local hospital
sent him by the daily commercial airliner ... he died in his father's arms just
before the
plane landed. There are 30 million bombies in Laos. The money for clearing up
war scrap is running at $2.5 million a year - the same, even leaving out
inflation,
that America spent every day for nine years from 1965 to 1973 on the illegal
and secret bombing of a tiny nation of rice farmers who just had the misfortune
to live next to Vietnam. Free slideshow and talk on this subject. TOP
