I just like the way I capture the skateboarder in flight while his friend looks on. This was captured in the Joliet Bicentennial Park, Joliet Il.
Author: ericwhite
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Dongba Script
Photo taken at the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The pictographic writing used by the Naxi people, known as the Dongba script, is one of the few pictographic sys- tems still in use. Consisting of more than 2,000 separate characters, Dongba pictography has been used primarily to record what is read or chanted at Dongba religious ritu – als. But the pictographs have also been used to document history and culture-creating a virtual encyclopaedia of the Naxi people. Dongba texts have been collected and preserved by many museums and libraries around th e world since the 1920s. An estimated 20,000 unique texts are said to exist.Because the pictograms are so distinctive,
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Marlboro Tribute
One of the great things about living in the Washington DC area is being able to find interesting photograph opportunities. This was take during the 2007 Rolling Thunder celebration. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The fact that someone left a pack of smokes for his fallen mate was touching.
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Remembrance
The images at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during Rolling Thunder are some of the most poignant, iconic images I’ve ever witnessed. This was taken during the 20th Anniversary of Rolling Thunder in 2007.
