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50 images Created 20 Jan 2014

People

Portfolio of people pictures from around the world by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson.
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  • Laird of Muck, Lawrence MacEwan on Beinn Airein, the highest hill on the island. The island has been in the hands of the MacEwan family since 1896, for four generations. <br />
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Muck is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4 km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mòr.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-25_11532.jpg
  • Gamekeeper and son at Ballindalloch Castle, Scotland.
    SC-0095 Guide & Son.jpg
  • Ranchers watch approaching thunderstorm in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
    Approaching Storm.jpg
  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.
    MM7189 20050430 24516.jpg
  • Farm boy with puppies from two litters in North Dakota.
    Boy & Puppies.jpg
  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
    MM7189 6-21-04 0489.jpg
  • Antonia, wife of Mariano Sutta Apucusi. At their home in Pampallacta.  Oca is a tuber relative of the potato, grown in the high Andes.  Oca is part of the vast biodiversity of some 1,300 varieties of potatoes and tubers grown here.
    MM7753 2010-05-27 3487.jpg
  • Roping horses for the days work on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Young woman in mourning at Tombete Village in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, where villagers demonstrate traditional crafts and hunting.
    WorldTrip_20110307_4695.jpg
  • Native fisherman netting for salmon on the Columbia River.
    Columbia River Fishing.jpg
  • A great grandmother was blind and could not see her great-granddaughter, in Tajikistan.
    RS-0021 Grandmother.jpg
  • Ranch hands gather at the stock tank after a day of branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
    Stock Tank Break.jpg
  • Rug weaver in a shop in Khotan, Xinjiang Province, China.
    Chinese Weaving Woman.jpg
  • Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Event has been going on for years and has grown ever larger, now boasting over 300 performers and 10,000 to 15,000 spectators.
    MM7189 20050430 24557.jpg
  • Mounties of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia.
    NovaScotia 20090723 2379.jpg
  • Lighthouse keeper Larry and Pauline Butler at Galley Head Lighthouse, Ireland.
    Irish Lighthouse Couple.jpg
  • Scene at the Free Church of Scotlland at Leurbost on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Minister here is Rev. Andrew Coghill, seen at the church and with is family at the manse. The church is both traditional and very conservative, using the King James Bible regularly for services.
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  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
    MM7189 8-28-04 20883.jpg
  • Sunrise at Stonehenge on the Summer Solstice.  20,000 revelers wait to greet the sunrise at Stonehenge.
    MM7189 6-21-04 0587.jpg
  • Ranch hands gather for branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
    Cowboy Lineup, Nebraska.jpg
  • Daniel, who is a papa arariwa, or guardian of the potato, people chosen in their community who knowedgeable about the varieties of potatoes and their uses and stories. Seen here in the field of repatirated potatoes in Chawaytire. <br />
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The Parque de la Papa, or potato park, near Pisac, Peru is using potatoes as a focal point to aid biodiversity and local economics, as well as bringing the community together through traditional values.
    MM7753 2010-05-28 3761.jpg
  • Kava Ceremony, American Samoa
    Kava Ceremony, American Samoa.jpg
  • At the Bobo Shanti compound in St. Andrew, Jamaica, a hilltop enclave dedicated to following the teachings of King Emannuel Charles Edwards. Life is highly ordered around the precept of preparing for all black Jamaicans to return to Africa, and specifically Ethiopia. The Bobo Shanti use the King James Bible extensively in their worship and theology, singing Psalms everyday.
    MM7937_20110504_02439.jpg
  • Riding the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog in the mountains for North Wales.  One of the most famous of the small steam trains of Wales, it was built to haul slate from the quaries to the seaport.  The nice station stop is at Tanybylch.  <br />
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Driver (engineer) in the jaunty cap is: Peter Nott.
    Wales 20050812 2092.jpg
  • Dancer at the Crow Fair in Montana.
    Native Eyes.jpg
  • Gordon Muir is the gamekeeper of Tarbert Estate on the Isle of Juram Scotland. Muir takes deer stalkers out on the hills of Jura. He is very traditional, wearing tweed plus fours and a deerstalker cap. The Isle of Jura is on the west coast of Scotland and known for having more than 6,000 deer but only 200 people.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-20_4348.jpg
  • Dressed for the Pardon procession in Lacronan, Brittany, France.
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  • Man at Museum in Jaipur,  India
    Man at Museum in India.jpg
  • Best decorated car contestants at the Crow Fair in Montana.
    Crow Fair Parade.jpg
  • Woman and her duck near Sheng Cun Village in Yuanyang County, China.
    MM6977_071020_22391.jpg
  • On the Balavil Estate in Scotland, hunters hike across the heather in pursuit of grouse.
    SC-0067 Balavil Hunter.jpg
  • The hammer throw competition at the Glenfinnan Highland Games and Gathering at Glenfinnan.
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  • Scenes at the Galway Inn in Lorient, Brittany where Breton musicians gather to play Irish music till the wee hours of the morning.
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  • Daycare center in a silk factory in Khotan, Xinjiang Province, China.
    Chinese Daycare.jpg
  • Bannatyne MacLeod working sheep on his croft on the Isle of Harris, Scotland Island crofters survived by being adaptable and dogged, doing everything from farming to fishing to herding sheep to make a living. Generations of his MacLeods have worked these rocky hills before  Bannatyne MacLeod took over the farm.
    MM7189 20050523 27462.jpg
  • Huli Wigmen perform at a sing sing at Ambua Lodge in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.<br />
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The Huli are an indigenous people that live in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Latest estimates put their numbers at around 150,000, while they have been living in the area where they now reside for about 1000 years. They speak Huli and Tok Pisin, and some also speak English.
    WorldTrip_20110308_6317.jpg
  • Tayitis Mohammed mixes injera out of teff flower and water in her house in Fontanina near Kombulcha in the Wollo region of the Ethiopian highlands. Injera is the staple bread of Ethiopia, which makes teff a valuable grain. Smoke from the kitchen fire made the rays of the setting sun show up brightly in the dark cookng area to the side of the main room of the stick and clay built house. The walls of the house are caulked with teff straw as well.<br />
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The injera batter, a bit runny like pancake batter, is then transfer to the bucket last used to "ferment" the injera for a couple of days, picking up the residual yeasts in the bucket and providing leavening to the bread.
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  • Glenfinnan Highland Games and Gathering at Glenfinnan.  Part of the ceremonies are the raising of the standard to commemorate Bonnie Prince Charlie rallying the Highlanders to his cause at Glenfinnan (which led to their eventual downfall.)  Some of the White Cockade Society participated in old Highland costume.
    MM7189 8-21-04 17111.jpg
  • Spring burning of the Flint Hills in Kansas.
    Flint Hills Fire.jpg
  • On the farm of Yacouba Sawadogo near the village of Gourga in northern Burkina Faso, north of Oubhigouya.
    MM6977_071207_29862.jpg
  • Traditional dancers on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the Pacific.
    WorldTrip 20090102 3235.jpg
  • Hauling Firewood in the villages around Keita, Niger. These women walked ten kilometers to get firewood for cooking, every day
    Hauling Firewood.jpg
  • Bert Shearer, a fishing gillie (guide) at Glen Lyon Estate, in Scotland, with flies used on they fishing beat, or stretch of stream.
    ScotlandBurns 20090127 6487.jpg
  • A wild horse roundup in Galicia, Spain.  Rapa das Bestas (The Capture of the Beasts) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the curros (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains.
    MM7189 20050717 38384.jpg
  • Like the medieval band of troubadors from which it is descended Tuna de Derecho of Santiago de Compostela gathers at a tavern in a little plaza after their nightly performance to continue their singing, now just for fun.   The gathering finally broke  up at 3:00 AM.   Made up of university students, the Tuna, sings for donations to help them pay for their studies.  Often racey and very suggestive, the singers are nothing if not charming.  Must see in Santiago.  Thursday, Friday Saturday at 10:00.
    Galicia 20050731 2186.jpg
  • Marie's Parade in Venice, a Grand Historical Pageant departure from S. Pietro di Castello church for St. Mark's  marking the beginning of Carnivale.
    Venice 20070209 5130.jpg
  • March of the Lonach Highlanders and the Lonach Gathering are one of the great Highland games in Scotand.  Morning includes the march as the clans go from country house to country house where their hosts toast them with a wee dram of hospitality, otherwise known as whisky.
    MM7189 8-28-04 20408.jpg
  • Former Laird of Muck, Lawrence MacEwan on Beinn Airein, the highest hill on the island. The island has ben in the hands of the MacEwan family since 1896, for four generations. <br />
<br />
Muck is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4 km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mòr. The other settlement on the island is the farm at Gallanach. The island's only road, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, connects the two.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-25_11536.jpg
  • Gordon Muir is the gamekeeper of Tarbert Estate on the Isle of Juram Scotland. Muir takes deer stalkers out on the hills of Jura. He is very traditional, wearing tweed plus fours and a deerstalker cap. The Isle of Jura is on the west coast of Scotland and known for having more than 6,000 deer but only 200 people.
    InnerHebrides_ 2011-10-20_4348.jpg