Malaysia: Bajau Fisherman

In Kota Belud, in the  Malaysia’s territory of Sabah, in north Borneo, this ironic Bajau fisherman was smoking a cigarette rolled in a leaf. He seemed to wonder what I found so interesting about him. Few people know what is interesting about them, but every person is worth a portrait, and photographers can make such portraits read like books.

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Malaysia: An Exuberant Little Girl

Little Bajau girl peeking out of her family’s hut window near Papar, in Sabah, a Malaysian part of Borneo.

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Canada : Acadian Historical Village

Girl drawing water at Caraquet’s Historical Village in Canada’s NewBrunswick Province.

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Acadia: Bay Of Fundy

In Canada’s Acadia, the beautiful rock-studded Bay of Fundy boasts the world’s highest tides, averaging heights of 47 to 54 feet. I photographed it at low tide, when people were walking around the rocks, but at high tide I would have seen them kayaking around them. Unfortunately my schedule did not allow me this.

Though the sun still shone brightly on the surrounding park when I got there, the bay, at the bottom of steep cliffs, was already bathing in the purple light of dusk. The sea looked reddish from the sediments it was dragging back and forth.

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Bolivia: Another Example Of Stone Forest

Following my yesterday’s post, here is another example of standing eroded rocks,  among hundreds more in Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, that are known locally as the stone forest.

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Bolivia: Altiplano Stone Forest

In Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, an often beautiful if bitter cold 10,000 feet-high plateau between two Andean cordilleras, hundreds of rocks sculptured like these by erosion form what the locals call bosque de piedras, or stone forest.

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Brazil: Two-Toed Sloth For Sale

Boy trying to sell me this two-toed sloth near Manaus, in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest.

The animal's inviting expression would make you think he was pushing the sale as well.

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Madagascar: Herding Zebus To Market

Along a puddle-strewn dirt road near Feonarivo, in Madagascar, a boy holding a sign warning drivers to stop is walking ahead of a herd of zebus on its way to a market several days march away. The boy and the men carry on their backs all their travel needs.

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Madagascar: Traditional African Village

Evrata Village, reachable after a strenuous canoe trip from Taolagnaro, previously Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, on the Evrata River. Coconut trees and breadfruit trees shade it.  To view more Madagascar photos on this blog, write the word in the search box.

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Kenya: Lake Logipi

 Just south of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, Lake Logipi, stretching in the Suguta River Valley, itself part of the Great Rift Valley, is being visited by flamingoes, crowding the waters near and far.  

    Though this blog is about humanity's cultures, people everywhere are so defined by their environments that I must also, once in a while, show some of them. 

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