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survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 11, 2016 - 11:24am PT
This is a people thread, if anyone wants to play.


I was struck yesterday at a local Farmers Market, just how many amazing shapes, sizes, and flavors there are of people out there.

Do you have any interesting pictures of people you don't even know? Many of you have traveled far and wide, and have taken great people shots, like Delhi Dog and Randisi and Donini.


I met a daytime Vampire in San Francisco once. I was so intrigued by his appearance that I asked if I could take his picture. He didn't say a single word to me, but gave me a gentlemanly wave of the hand telling me that I could.


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2016 - 11:28am PT
Street performers, Old Mesilla, New Mexico.








Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Jul 11, 2016 - 11:31am PT
A young Tadzhik girl who had a dignity and power to her. We had an instant bond.


Not strange, but beautiful.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jul 11, 2016 - 11:33am PT
Oh, yes I want just a bit though
Here's strange & stanage
f, wrong pic,, & then those that are both

big AL,








the dude, here he's 'evel'
The babe is Sue.

strange & beautiful....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 11, 2016 - 11:53am PT
I know this guy. John Downs, The Time Traveler, Auburn CA, 1870



The Lisa

Trad climber
Da Bronx, NY
Jul 11, 2016 - 12:03pm PT

In a Food Emporium in NYC...
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jul 11, 2016 - 01:12pm PT
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jul 11, 2016 - 01:19pm PT
Hooblie triggered a head recoil
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 11, 2016 - 01:36pm PT


Hehe... that's good story-telling... and just as unreal as the originals...

Here's something real:

clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Jul 11, 2016 - 02:53pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Bizarre Discoveries in Mines
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Jul 11, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
Every one of these fantastically strange women are GORGEOUS

[Click to View YouTube Video]
couchmaster

climber
Jul 11, 2016 - 05:44pm PT
Pic from some kid, small town way up in the backhills of Tibet:


Maybe from 12 years or so back.


SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jul 12, 2016 - 06:36am PT

I'm strange, but certainly KNOT beautiful.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 12, 2016 - 06:55am PT





survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2016 - 09:53am PT
Great posts people!
Jefe, I love your post!
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Jul 12, 2016 - 10:53am PT
Strange and Beautiful

SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
Jul 12, 2016 - 11:05am PT
This wonderful little surfer out by Steamer Lane. Just captured my heart.


Susan
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Jul 12, 2016 - 07:16pm PT
i like dis topic!!!
ps i know what dat is munge and it is sick and shot thru with rott
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jul 12, 2016 - 09:02pm PT
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4849
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Jul 12, 2016 - 09:04pm PT
Bravecowboy, yes, exactly why it is strange and oddly beautiful. :)
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 13, 2016 - 09:43am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 13, 2016 - 10:32am PT
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jul 13, 2016 - 11:52am PT

edit: hyalophora cecropia ... thanks brave cowboy

no mouth or digestive system, big antennae combing the breeze for the scent of a woman. sheeze

JacksColdSweat

Social climber
Jul 13, 2016 - 12:33pm PT
Ksolem

Trad climber
Monrovia, California
Jul 13, 2016 - 12:43pm PT
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Jul 13, 2016 - 02:35pm PT
This kid taught me about Coke and Mentos.


A quick study.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jul 13, 2016 - 03:12pm PT
Very much lost in translation

€^
MH2

Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
Jul 13, 2016 - 03:18pm PT
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jul 13, 2016 - 04:27pm PT
Ed, that is pretty strange but not very charming.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jul 13, 2016 - 10:35pm PT
it's strange and beauty... not sure that the triple strange, beauty and charm are seen yet...
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Jul 13, 2016 - 10:48pm PT
nice cecropia!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 14, 2016 - 04:05am PT

Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT6x8bY5asw
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Jul 14, 2016 - 05:34am PT
John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Jul 14, 2016 - 09:00am PT
A Shinto Wedding I saw in Japan. The mixture of East and West.


Sumo d00ds


A Priest strikes a drum






John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Jul 14, 2016 - 09:09am PT
A Wedding in Katmandu.

John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Jul 14, 2016 - 09:59am PT

A young Nun in Burma (Myanmar)


A Procession as children enter the monastic life. They won't be there necessarily for life however.

Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Jul 14, 2016 - 01:07pm PT

Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.


hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jul 14, 2016 - 07:17pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Jul 16, 2016 - 12:03pm PT
overwatch

climber
Arizona
Jul 16, 2016 - 12:30pm PT
Nice shots everyone, especially Hooblie

and yeah, nice pull, Jody
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Jul 16, 2016 - 06:02pm PT
My Great, Great, Grand parents from Prince Edward Island, Canada. They were born in the very late 18th century.
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Oct 17, 2016 - 12:31pm PT
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Oct 17, 2016 - 12:40pm PT

By the way, a remarkable collection by Hooblie above.

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 17, 2016 - 12:43pm PT
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2016 - 12:54pm PT
Ooo, very cool pic of the girl and shadow!


My mama, with an old neighbor friend's mini horse and carriage.




hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Oct 17, 2016 - 01:48pm PT
please accept my thanksabunch folks, along with a manly curtsy.


and btw, long suffering tami ...
a savant among judge o' mugs, reads correctly that no shift key
need be deployed in the instance of minimally assuming hooblie


mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 17, 2016 - 02:20pm PT

Rollover

climber
Gross Vegas
Oct 17, 2016 - 02:39pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 17, 2016 - 07:47pm PT
Just looked at this thread
))
Nice survival ( and contributors )

Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Oct 17, 2016 - 08:24pm PT
Ah!

I was out suffering on a seven-day Idaho river-trip when Survival posted this thread. I'm happy to contribute the 2nd time around.

I saw some strange & beautiful images on my first trip to Nepal in 2005.




And to Mustang Nepal in 2008.






Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 17, 2016 - 08:28pm PT
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 17, 2016 - 08:48pm PT
That water came out of the bottom of a 5000 meter mountain and was prolly better than
what most of us drink, sans fluoride and crap.

I'll go look for yer comments on the baseball thread. ;-)
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Oct 23, 2016 - 11:09am PT

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