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  • A decorative metal grid in Mandalay on 24th May 2016 in Myanmar
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  • Interior of a workshop making decorative animal heads using real horns from deer and water buffalo in Thuy Ung, water buffalo horn processing village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam. With Vietnam’s growing population making less land available for farmers to work, families unable to sustain themselves are turning to the creation of various products in rural areas.  These ‘craft’ villages specialise in a single product or activity, anything from palm leaf hats to incense sticks, or from noodle making to snake-catching. Some of these ‘craft’ villages date back hundreds of years, whilst others are a more recent response to enable rural farmers to earn much needed extra income.
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. Wearing white gloves and a decorative overcoat worn on special occasions, we see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    aldeman_sceptre01-15-11-1983_1.jpg
  • Five Christmas mince pies and festive table decorations on the 24th December 2018 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • A half eaten Christmas cake and festive table decorations on the 24th December 2018 in London in the United Kingdom.
    XMAS-241218-04318.jpg
  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration at Paro Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
    DSCF4286cc_1.jpg
  • Decorated house with trompe doeil in doorway 17th September 2016 in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France. The tiled building is a gatehouse for the large estate in the Loire valley.
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Churchill_Arms_P1043164.jpg
  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Churchill_Arms_P1043135.jpg
  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Churchill_Arms_P1043104.jpg
  • A Bai Xing style Miao ethnic minority woman wearing her heavily decorated traditional clothing, spins human hair for use in her traditional headdress, Lao Zhai Zi village, Guizhou Province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • Mu Ze Latso visits a neighbour and mother of the mayor of the village on Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4174_1_1.jpg
  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4173_1_1.jpg
  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street with a crowd underneath, very busy street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4162_1_1.jpg
  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4173_1.jpg
  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street with a crowd underneath, very busy street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4162_1.jpg
  • A truck seen in the water after falling down a cliff, 23rd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091023_37.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 23rd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091023_39.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_29.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_23.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_24.jpg
  • A man painting a fan in the Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • The Paul Hamlyn Hall at The Royal Opera House on the 4th December 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The Paul Hamlyn Hall, previously known as the Floral Hall, was completed in 1860. The hall was originally used as a flower market during the day and transformed into an events venue in the evening.
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  • The Paul Hamlyn Hall at The Royal Opera House on the 4th December 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The Paul Hamlyn Hall, previously known as the Floral Hall, was completed in 1860. The hall was originally used as a flower market during the day and transformed into an events venue in the evening.
    AC_RoyalOperaHouse -1049282.jpg
  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted door at Paro Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Painting includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
    DSCF4282cc_1.jpg
  • Portrait of an Akha Cherpia ethnic minority woman sewing traditional clothing outside her home in Ban Nam Hin village, Phongsaly Province, Lao PDR.  One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
    A0014278cc_1.jpg
  • As one enters the monastic complex, ones is welcomed by a shrine and a standing Buddha with a raised hand in a gesture of reassurance and blessing to visitors, The "parasol" over his head indicates the supremacy of Buddhism. The central figure of the Manfeilang Monastery ( of the Dai denomination) is the White Pagoda  which lies on elevated ground on the banks of the Mekong river in south west Yunnan province.  Dai monasteries are built in the centre of a village or as in this case outside  on higher ground.<br />
<br />
Built in 1204, the Manfeilang monastery complex is in fact a cluster of nine pagodas or stupas, to enshrine what is purported to be the Buddha’s footprint. The whole ensemble forms a fusion of Southeast Asian Buddhist style with typical Dai architecture. It is popular for Buddhist pilgrims from the surrounding region which attracts thousands during the Tan Ta Festival in late October early November each year.  In this region and in these Dai and Sino-Burmese monasteries, Theravada Buddhism is the religion that is practiced.
    chimanmon_0018_1.jpg
  • The central figure of the Manfeilang Monastery ( of the Dai denomination) is the White Pagoda  which lies on elevated ground on the banks of the Mekong river in south west Yunnan province.  Dai monasteries are built in the centre of a village or as in this case outside  on higher ground.<br />
<br />
Built in 1204, the Manfeilang monastery complex is in fact a cluster of nine pagodas or stupas, to enshrine what is purported to be the Buddha’s footprint. The whole ensemble forms a fusion of Southeast Asian Buddhist style with typical Dai architecture. It is popular for Buddhist pilgrims from the surrounding region which attracts thousands during the Tan Ta Festival in late October early November each year.  In this region and in these Dai and Sino-Burmese monasteries, Theravada Buddhism is the religion that is practiced.
    chimanmon_003_1.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_32.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_35.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_33.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_34.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_31.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_30.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091022_25.jpg
  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 19th October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091019_07.jpg
  • The colourful front of an Indian Tata truck, 18th October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091018_02.jpg
  • The colourful front of an Indian Tata truck, 18th October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
    himalaya20091018_03.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    Bali_pano1.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5144.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5130.jpg
  • A man painting a fan in the Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5131.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5111.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5122.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5116.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5104.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5098.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5090.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5084.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5107.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5078.jpg
  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
    _DSC5082.jpg
  • The Paul Hamlyn Hall at The Royal Opera House on the 4th December 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The Paul Hamlyn Hall, previously known as the Floral Hall, was completed in 1860. The hall was originally used as a flower market during the day and transformed into an events venue in the evening.
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  • The Paul Hamlyn Hall at The Royal Opera House on the 4th December 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The Paul Hamlyn Hall, previously known as the Floral Hall, was completed in 1860. The hall was originally used as a flower market during the day and transformed into an events venue in the evening.
    AC_RoyalOperaHouse -1049272.jpg
  • Portrait of a Small Flower Miao ethnic minority woman, wearing her traditional clothing, in her home Gao Yuan village, Guizhou, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • An Aini ethnic minority woman sits on a bed with a young boy in her home in Xiang Dao Ya village. Costume styles in the past were identified by discrete regions and sub regions, but due to a number of factors some groups are more widely dispersed.  This may be due to migration or search for land, and more recently, as a result of re-settlement of groups by the Chinese government, made necessary by the construction of new roads, reservoirs and hydroelectric schemes. The People's Republic of China recognises 55 ethnic minority groups in China in addition to the Han majority. The ethnic minorities form 9.44% of mainland China and Taiwan's total population and the greatest number can be found in Yunnan Province, 34% (25 ethnic groups).
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  • As one enters the monastic complex, ones is welcomed by a shrine and a standing Buddha with a raised hand in a gesture of reassurance and blessing to visitors, The "parasol" over his head indicates the supremacy of Buddhism. The central figure of the Manfeilang Monastery ( of the Dai denomination) is the White Pagoda  which lies on elevated ground on the banks of the Mekong river in south west Yunnan province.  Dai monasteries are built in the centre of a village or as in this case outside  on higher ground.<br />
<br />
Built in 1204, the Manfeilang monastery complex is in fact a cluster of nine pagodas or stupas, to enshrine what is purported to be the Buddha’s footprint. The whole ensemble forms a fusion of Southeast Asian Buddhist style with typical Dai architecture. It is popular for Buddhist pilgrims from the surrounding region which attracts thousands during the Tan Ta Festival in late October early November each year.  In this region and in these Dai and Sino-Burmese monasteries, Theravada Buddhism is the religion that is practiced.
    chimanmon_0019_1.jpg
  • The central figure of the Manfeilang Monastery ( of the Dai denomination) is the White Pagoda  which lies on elevated ground on the banks of the Mekong river in south west Yunnan province.  Dai monasteries are built in the centre of a village or as in this case outside  on higher ground.<br />
<br />
Built in 1204, the Manfeilang monastery complex is in fact a cluster of nine pagodas or stupas, to enshrine what is purported to be the Buddha’s footprint. The whole ensemble forms a fusion of Southeast Asian Buddhist style with typical Dai architecture. It is popular for Buddhist pilgrims from the surrounding region which attracts thousands during the Tan Ta Festival in late October early November each year.  In this region and in these Dai and Sino-Burmese monasteries, Theravada Buddhism is the religion that is practiced.
    chimanmon_012_1.jpg
  • Large colourful Victorian family houses at Chalcot Square on the 7th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Chalcot_Square-1047020.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show09-10-11-2012.jpg
  • Large colourful Victorian family houses at Chalcot Square on the 7th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Chalcot_Square-1047036.jpg
  • Large colourful Victorian family houses at Chalcot Square on the 7th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Chalcot_Square-1047028.jpg
  • Large colourful Victorian family houses at Chalcot Square on the 7th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Chalcot_Square-1047024.jpg
  • Large colourful Victorian family houses at Chalcot Square on the 7th October 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
    D_Chalcot_Square-1047030.jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
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  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
    20180514_narbonne cathedral organ_00...jpg
  • Morso Crystal shop; Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • In the school holidays, a young Tai Dam girl embroiders her first sinh (Lao traditional skirt), Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. She has been watching and learning from her mother and other female family members since she was a young child.
    A_17357cc_1.jpg
  • In the school holidays, a young Tai Dam girl embroiders her first sinh (Lao traditional skirt), Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. She has been watching and learning from her mother and other female family members since she was a young child.
    A_17336cc_1.jpg
  • In the school holidays, a young Tai Dam girl embroiders her first sinh (traditional Lao skirt), Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. She has been watching and learning from her mother and other female family members since she was a young child.
    A_17317cc_1.jpg
  • In the school holidays, a young Tai Dam girl embroiders her first sinh (tradional Lao skirt), Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. She has been watching and learning from her mother and other female family members since she was a young child.
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  • Wearing a traditional hat/headscarf made from handwoven cotton, a Mouchee woman stands outside her house in Ban Mouchee Nampok, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR, making a bag with a technique similar to crochet. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • During a time-exposure of a few seconds, the ambient neon and natural evening light of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive are mixed together to give an atmospheric mood of vitality, bustle and excitement in this tropical city. The vertical-aligned name of the famous Colony Hotel is seen through the darkened window of an SUV (4x4). Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality. Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze, blurring during the exposure and making them ghostly against the fading sky of early evening. This is vibrant district of Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed.
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  • Crowds of visitors and locals gather on the terrace of an Ocean Drive cafe in Miami Beach. It is early evening and we see the blurred people moving about over the picture during a time-exposure of a few seconds. The colours of ambient neon lights that these streets are well-known for have become very vivid with bright pinks and reds a main feature of this scene. A menu board listing cocktail drinks prices stands on the sidewalk. Candles have been lit in glass jars on table tops. Ghostly, blurred Palm trees sway about in the coastal breeze against the fading sky of early evening. This is a vibrant district of tropical Miami, Florida. The place to hang-out and be noticed. Glowing pinks and blues are vivid in this scene where beautiful people and expensive cars cruise along slowly, each parading bodywork and personality.
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
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  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show06-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show02-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A detail of an ornate Victorian brass letter box plate. Seen in close-up, the single and plural word 'Letters' is printed in upper-case capitals on the flap that one must lift to insert postal mail from the outside of this heavy, glossy black doors in the seaside town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. The brass plate sits in its fitted slot and has been carefully polished these last decades to ensure it still looks as handsome as it might have some time in the Victorian era when brass door knockers and other elaborate fittings were fixed to houses, showing true quality craftsmanship - a factor largely ignored in the mass-produced products of today.
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  • A detail of an ornate Victorian brass letter box plate. Seen in close-up, the single and plural word 'Letters' is printed in upper-case capitals on the flap that one must lift to insert postal mail from the outside of this heavy, glossy black doors in the seaside town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England. The brass plate sits in its fitted slot and has been carefully polished these last decades to ensure it still looks as handsome as it might have some time in the Victorian era when brass door knockers and other elaborate fittings were fixed to houses, showing true quality craftsmanship - a factor largely ignored in the mass-produced products of today.
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  • Interior of Narbonne Cathedral with its ornate carved organ in Narbonne, France. Cathedrale Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur de Narbonne, is a Gothic style Roman Catholic church located in the town of Narbonne, France. The cathedral is a national monument and dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor.
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  • In the school holidays, a young Tai Dam girl embroiders her first sinh (Lao traditional skirt), Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. She has been watching and learning from her mother and other female family members since she was a young child.
    A_17325cc_1.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
    lord_mayors_show08-10-11-2012.jpg
  • A Beadle mace-bearer from the City of London holds a ceremonial mace in the crook of his left arm during the annual Lord"s Mayor's Show. We see only the arm and the golden mace as a close-up detail. The Beadle's role is now only symbolic, accompanying the City Adlermen as the lead the processions through the capital's ancient financial heart. A Beadle or bedel was a lay official of a church or synagogue who would usher, keep order, make reports, and assist in religious functions; or a minor official who carries out various civil, educational, or ceremonial duties. The term has Franco-English pre-renaissance origins, derived from the Vulgar Latin "bidellus" or "bedellus", rooted in words for "herald". It moved into Old English as a title given to an Anglo-Saxon officer who summoned householders to council.
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  • Pikemen in the Guildhall courtyard await the arrival of the new Lord Mayor of London before the start of the annual procession for the new Mayor. Alderman and Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, an ex-financier with Swedish bank SEB is the 685th in the City of London’s ancient history. The new Mayor’s procession consists of a 3-mile, 150-float parade of commercial and military organisations going back to medieval times. This is the oldest and longest civic procession in the world that has survived the Plague and the Blitz, today one of the best-loved pageants. Henry Fitz-Ailwyn was the first Lord Mayor (1189-1212) and ever since, eminent city fathers (and one woman) have taken the role of the sovereign’s representative in the City – London’s ancient, self-governing financial district.
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  • Wwo women shoppers walk through a City of London mall whose decorations feature a decorative Christmas tree and window ice patterns. The ladies walk betwen it and a barrier one lunchtime.
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  • Sign in the office of Henri Schram where he works in  human resources at an office in Cape Town. Decor dates back to opening of the office, Smoking is allowed.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Sign in the office of Henri Schram where he works in  human resources at an office in Cape Town. Decor dates back to opening of the office, Smoking is allowed.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Christmas decorations outside For Arts Sake shop In Covent Garden on the 4th December 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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