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faces with a leica | the Desert - Tucson, Arizona | Pohnpei, Micronesia -FSM- 2010, 2011 | ** just a little light ** | ** the poor the needy the begging the cons and the giving of alms ** | leica b and w | love the child | ** Kam Agroforestry in a 300 Year Old Village ** a UNESCO/UNDESA funded project. China | ** Kam Local Agriculture and Pisciculture ** a UNESCO/UNDESA funded project. China | Toys Children Make, Children's Innovations | ** NEPAL ** ** What I Saw ** | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) World Environment Day June 2006 | * * TIBET * * A People and Their Culture * * August 2006 | Leica M9 | Two Days of Protests in San Francisco, California. Olympic Torch April 8-9, 2008 | Tibet Day 2009 | *** personal favorites *** | Images That Hold Special Meaning or Interest to Me | Galleries of Cities and Villages that I have visited in China. | Market Day | The Many Faces of Humankind | hands | Black and White images | FLOWERS and other plants | Animals I have had the pleasure to enjoy the company of and some I wish could have had a better life. | 6 and 8 legged animals ++ Click on thumbnails to enlarge image++ | Reptiles and Amphibians I have had the pleasure to meet. | Environmental Impacts | ** Love That Bird ** | ** the cat and the child ** | ** just a little black and white ** | Various images of electronics | The Beach | Animals used for medicine. | In Box | Nascar: infineon Raceway - June, 2010 | Pohnpaid * Pohnpei * Petroglyphs- October 2010 | What i saw | Weekend retreat. | Ohmine Public Elementary School | An assault on Dr. Amy Eisenberg.

Images That Hold Special Meaning or Interest to Me

These images are expressions of what I enjoy in the visual expression media that uses light transmission. The situation I have photographed may or may not be to my liking but I try to represent what is happening the best I can.

Before I die I would like to see through my own eyes and feel with my own heart that which surrounds me. Albert Einstein said this is something few people do in their life. I would have to agree.
Point of impact. t6%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f68827326.4GWhcSir.jpg Comfortable? Contrasts #1.
Wait . . #1 Wait . . #4 Wait . . #6 Sitting by the fire as the rain falls.
Saying goodbye. Expressing. Midday break. Young agriculturist. He was very kind and showed us a shortcut back to the road. Captured laugh.
Remote village, China. 2006 Out of bed to say goodbye. Homeless in China t1%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f56396679.Sleepingonsidewalkagainstastonewall.JishouCityChina.jpg
Disfigured t1%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f62567142.JnfuFAfE.jpg Knitter. Sister
His wife waits. How old and needy before someone helps? Singing for the joy. A not so happy girl.
Day laborers waiting for work. t1%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f61133089.unloadingtruck1.jpg Burning a pine tree to death. 1 Elder during work with pyracantha. Horseneck, China.
On a back alley in Shanghai. Elder in Dali, China Reflection or not. Hmong Spring Festival celebration in Panzhai, January 2006, Guizhou Province, China
Got it. Rabbit ears. Panzhai, Guizhou Province, China Young girl in marketplace. #4 t1%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f64364904.D5ryKwDb.jpg
t1%2f14%2f637114%2f4%2f64346656.8HCco9sW.jpg Dr. Amy Eisenberg, international ethnoecologist and humanitarian. Father and sleeping child. Remote village China. 2006 Mother and child in a high mountain village.
Looking back. Going for a ride. Riding on a plow. Plowing never stops this time of year, well almost never.
Bringing in the cattle at the end of the day. Rolling another one. Two people. Not in the card game.
Sidewalk checkers. Card game and the smoker. Hmong woman taking an afternoon nap during a lull at the vegetable stand. Road worker #2.
Day labor Open air market. Timber owner. Street suction cup therapy.
Street suction cup therapy. Two boats. Fenghuang, Hunan Province, China Fenghuang paddling on the main river. the netted bed. Remote village, China. 2006
Not sure where I am going but here I am. Sifting and working lime. Factory in south Jishou. #2 Fly eyes. Order: Diptera. Wuling Mts. Hunan Province, China
4. Breathing tubes. Hemiptera. 1. Family Buprestidae. Wuling Mts., Hunan Province, China. 5. Head-on. Hemiptera #2.
A strange and interesting insect. The Dung beetle and the fly. Sharing a common interest. Tree frog, captive for one day. Jishou City area, Hunan Province, Wuling Mts. China Tree frog, captive for one day. Jishou City area, Hunan Province, Wuling Mts. China
Tree frog. Jishou City area, Hunan Province, Wuling Mts. China Close to the end. . . Rainy day dog. Male rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta, family Cercopithecidae. Zhangjajie National Forest Park in Hunan Province, China
Cow eating picked greens that were meant for other purposes. Hoping for something. Maybe just one scrap? Baskets and a chair. Bamboo barrels.
A sandal made from a tire and twisted rice stalks. leguminous flower Hanging garlic. Water Lily, Family: Nymphaceae
Flower of a legume, Jishou City area, Hunan Province, Wuling Mts, China Yellow flowers. Blue flowers. Going my way?

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Bart Aldrich 10-Nov-2008 16:02
More great stuff! I could spend hours in these galleries, and may eventually. So much of interest.
Cheers!
Sue Robertson 25-Oct-2006 20:34
Amazing gallery. v
Marianne Archer 25-Oct-2006 06:58
another very special gallery of outstanding work...I am inspired!
Elazar Harel 24-Oct-2006 17:15
Excellent gallery! Thank you.
Eve Soldinger 09-Sep-2006 16:44
Thank you. Your images capture a great amount of nature and people's true spirit. It makes me want to experience it myself.

Eve Soldinger
malcolm arnold 17-Jul-2006 15:51
Your words along with Einstein ring true with me as well .Other words that are dear to me are , I quote from an unknown author " never fear death fear unlived life ' Your gallery here takes us ( the net surfer) along with you because of your creativity and artistry .I thank you sincerely The macro 'stuff' of nature are food for the soul Well done .You obviously don't only look but SEE .
Steven 11-Jul-2006 21:39
i appreciate what you have done in my hometown. hopefully this will attracts more tourists going there to have a look.

one thing i must mention, although JiShou is one of the poor region of China, if not the poorest, yet i cannot see Any sign from this gallaries.

Guess what,i came from the Gaoshan village you mentioned for many times! although now i live in New Zealand,every night over the mountain and cross the sea, my heart is beating toward there.

well done!
Guest 11-Jul-2006 21:24
as a native person of this region(JiShou), i must admit you people have done good damm thing! this is EXACTLY what's on the region. well done!
Yves Rubin 11-Jul-2006 01:35
You are so gifted! It is great to see you use it for a the good!
geonni banner 08-Jul-2006 00:42
Fabuolus - bugs, the homeless, kids, dogs - the lot. You're a genius!
Shirin Golzar 07-Jul-2006 01:17
Very Beautiful Photo's...Great Job :)
david procter 06-Jul-2006 09:53
Astoundingly good images John, the humanity resonates from the portaits and your love of photography is very apparent. well done and big vote.
MarkoP 05-Jul-2006 10:27
some excellent portraits
really great work
raymond ker 27-Jun-2006 14:01

I have just stumbled across your astonishing galleries, John.
What a revelation!
I plan to spend a great deal of time here.
So much to absorb and digest.
Evocative and inspirational !
Thank you.

Ray ....
Voted !!(such a pathetically inadequate response)
Zane Paxton 24-Jun-2006 04:49
A most wonderful gallery!
Patrick Bold 16-Jun-2006 15:17
Fantastic gallery filled with memorable and beautiful images. Your portraiture work is outstanding! Very well done. BIG vote!
Patrick
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