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| quote: | Kostroma, Russia, 1992
Photograph by James P. Blair
A young woman in Kostroma, Russia, reclines in a car while listening to music.
This city, located on the Volga River about 211 miles (340 kilometers) northeast of Moscow, is the center of Russia's textile industry. As such, residents here were quick to adopt Western styles, like the tight blue jeans and fashionable high heels worn by this woman, during the years following the breakup of the Soviet Union.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Russian Voyage: From the White to the Black Sea," June 1994, National Geographic magazine) |
| quote: | Big Sur, California, 2000
Photograph by Frans Lanting
Firemen with lighted helmets use controlled fires to clear brush during a wildfire in California’s Santa Lucia Range. Forest fires—man-made and natural—are so common here that Big Sur naturalist John Smiley calls them “another type of weather.”
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Big Sur: California’s Elemental Coast, " August 2000, National Geographic magazine) |
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