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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 3:46 pm**

flipflop wrote:Roadside laundry party, Al Amarah, Iraq, 2003

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Is this a quiz?
Which one is planting the IED?

My money is on Grandma with her ass to the camera.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 4:57 pm**

that is really nice :)
what are those tanker trucks in the background?

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 5:49 pm**

Local fuel trucks. This is the main road between Basra and Kut, in 2003 it was still pretty safe and fuel trucks didn't need an escort - not sure what it's like there now

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 6:09 pm**

flipflop wrote:

So, not to make you more of a big-headed twat, but this is one of my favorite photos of Iraq from anyone. No death, no sorrow, no tugging of the heartstrings, just plain old interesting life.

Thanks for that.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2008 11:05 pm**

Thank you for the posts FF - and I echo NIJ's comments....

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2008 2:05 am**

A huge anvil-shaped cumulonimbus thunder cloud off the coast of Darwin, NT, Australia, Feb 2007.

About an hour after I took this picture, the storm rolled ashore and I witnessed one of the heaviest and loudest downpours ever, all from the safety of my backpacker's hostel roof with tinnies at hand - a regular occurence during the wet season in Australia's jungly north - brilliant it was

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Posted: **Fri May 02, 2008 12:47 pm**

Was the rain heavy enough to take a shower in? I took a few rain showers in Africa and I can say it is a really different kind of clean feeling.

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2008 3:11 pm**

It was mate, I had photos of it but haven't got them on this hard drive

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Posted: **Fri May 02, 2008 4:04 pm**

great photo....fuck me, those are some ugly kids

Posted: **Sat May 03, 2008 4:54 am**

Posted: **Sat May 03, 2008 4:54 am**

Full moon through a telescope, Mamalluca Observatory, Elqui Valley, Chile, June 2007

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Posted: **Sun May 04, 2008 3:50 am**

Macchapuchre (6993m) at sunset from Macchapuchre Base Camp, Nepal 2005. One of the last great unclimbed peaks of the Himalaya

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Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 3:36 am**

Village girl, Qurnah, Iraq 2004

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Posted: **Wed May 07, 2008 4:17 am**

The Emin Mosque, Turpan, Xinjiang, China September 2006

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Posted: **Wed May 07, 2008 10:55 am**

flipflop wrote:The Emin Mosque, Turpan, Xinjiang, China September 2006

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Wow you can really see the Central Asian style of mineret, looks very similar to Khiva and Bukara's designs in Uzbekistan.

The silk road stuff is extremly unique.

~Stiv

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