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MURSI TRIBE LADY
At around puberty, females cut their lower lip and install a clay plate in the opening. As time goes by the plate stretches the hole and a bigger disk is put in. Those plates can easily reach 7 inches in diameter! Lower teeth are often removed to make the lip plate sit comfortably in the opening. (Photo and caption by Dmitri Markine.
ICONIC: A huge cargo ship, dwarfed by the Golden Gate, passing under the bridge, amidst dense fog. Fog so dense, that both the ship and the iconic bridge are hidden underneath, as if both are lost. A long exposure created ghosting of the moving ship, adding to the effect. This was photographed after sunset.
Jamnik, a small village in Slovenia. One morning in autumn.
TRONA PINNACLES, California
