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New Orleans

New Orleans

In a city famous for all kinds of music, the streets of the French Quarter offers many different talented musicians. Grandpa Elliott, center-left, and Stony B, center-right, have been well known street musicians at the French Quarter in New Orleans for many years.

Grandpa Elliott has been singing in New Orleans since he was 6 years old, and in 2009 he became an instant online icon with a successful worldwide project called Playing for Change. Maison Bourbon Jazz Club at the French Quarter is considered one of the finest places for Jazz in Louisiana, left and right. (2003)

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Galapagos

Male Great Frigatebirds, top left, are smaller than females, they have a patch of red skin at the throat called gular sac, which inflates in order to attract a female. Galapagos Tortoise, top right, is the most recognized symbol of the Galapagos Islands, they can weigh over 500 lb. and the shell can measure 59 inches, These land-based turtles can live for more than 150 years. The Galapagos Land Iguana, bottom left, grows to a length of three to five feet with a body weight of up to twenty-five pounds, has a 60-year lifespan and it can be found all over Galapagos islands. White-cheeked pintail duck, bottom right, feeds on small birds and insects as well as fresh-water vegetation in shallow ponds. Celso Bayo/ BayoPhoto

 

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Harran

A traditional mud brick “beehive” houses in the village of Harran, located in the southeast of Turkey, near the border with Syria. A very ancient city, which was a major Assyrian commercial, cultural, and religious center, Harran is a valuable archaeological site.

Celso Bayo/ BayoPhoto/2001

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Havana

Havana is one of the most exciting and charming cities in the world, but the buildings are going through a dangerous process of deterioration, and most cars are from before the revolution in the late ’50s and in poor conditions. Cuba’s economy has been struggling with the American embargo and the decline of financial support from former communists countries.

Celso Bayo/ BayoPhoto/2000

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Hanging Loose In Jeri

A vendor walks at Jericoacoara Beach in Northeast of Brazil. 

Celso Bayo/BayoPhoto

Black & White second place in Photographer’s Forum Magazine contest. Sponsored by Canon, the 20th Annual Spring Photography contest, received more than 27.000 photographic entries.