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I took this on a visit to the Oro tribe in Papua New Guinea in June this year.

Oro chief
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Old 07-12-2009, 07:50 AM
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Great photo.
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Very great photo! Did you approached to the subject or just zoomed?
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Thanks! He knew I was taking the photo.
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Old 07-12-2009, 11:15 AM
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Wow...awesome...I really love pictures of people of other cultures.
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Very nice Portrait of an interesting subject, Well composed and presented
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beautiful reading of light.....nice composition too!....

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very dramatic shot...could've come from the pages of National Geographic
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really like this shot - probably the one thing we don't see that much of on here is people from different cultures and I think these images only seem to work if the person behind the lens is from a different culture
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Love it ..great shot.
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