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Le Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France (August 2016)
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a cargo truck purposefully drove into a crowd of people gathered for Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. Almost 500 people were injured and 86 people lost their lives. I visited Le Promenade des Anglais one month after these attacks. Mourning shrines led up the boardwalk to a gazebo covered in memorabilia gathered there as a result of the bloodshed in that public and popular place. France has experienced a lot of terror in the last five years and being able to pay homage to the innocent lives caught in the crossfire of larger disputes was something I will never forget.
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Mont St. Michel, France
At the top of Le Mont Saint-Michel a cathedral watches out from the sky over the mouth of the Couesnon River. In the very heights of the city lies the heart of this island commune; it's a warm garden with a circular sphere. It mirrors back the grace and delicacy of this sacred place that sits literally on top of a city in the middle of a river mouth. Incroyable!
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A woman praying at a local shrine
It is unclear to whom this shrine is dedicated: some say to Hai Leng Ong, the dragon that created the island of Phuket; others claim to Naga, a creature in Buddhist mythology.
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Boat Racing Festival in Vang Vieng, Laos
The Festival usually takes place at the end of Buddhist Lent (like most things in Laos, this varies wildly depending on the region). I took this photo towards the end of the day of the races so the atmosphere had calmed down quite a bit from earlier in the day when everybody was screaming for their favorite racers and drinking Beer Lao on the river bank.
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