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  • The supermoon sets over Chatham's Lighthouse Beach on Cape Cod.
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  • A man dances on the beach at lowtide in Eastham, MA.
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  • The sun sets over a dock on Mill Pond in Chatham, MA.
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  • The supermoon sets over Chatham's Lighthouse Beach on Cape Cod.
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  • A colorful pair of rainbow lorikeets "kiss" on a log in the Jardin de Balata in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
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  • A man dances on the beach at lowtide in Eastham, MA.
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  • An irridescent pair of hummingbirds keep each other company on a fan palm frond in the Jardin de Balata in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
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  • A surfer in wetsuit from behind carrying a surfboard at Whitecrest Beach in Wellfleet, MA
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  • A surfer in wetsuit from behind carrying a surfboard at Whitecrest Beach in Wellfleet, MA
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  • I photographed this father and daughter walking towards a lit-up fountain at Reserva Park in Lima, Peru. There was something so dreamy and beautiful about this moment and it really brought to mind the sense of magic and mystery childhood can hold. I wish all the world's girls could experience this sense of beauty and magic, not to mention the comforting hand of a committed father leading one through it.
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  • Darlene Hoyt, 67, is photographed in the home she shares with her husband in West Yarmouth, MA. Darlene was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer four years ago during an annual mammogram.  When more atypical cells were found after two lumpectomies, Darlene underwent a double mastectomy. She recently got a hummingbird tattooed on her left breast area by well-known Cape Cod tattoo artist, Mark Corliss. "I wore my mastectomy forms for three years. Once I knew I was getting my tattoo, I stopped wearing them. It just felt so false to me. Why pretend to have body parts that I didn't have anymore?  For me, this artwork feels more authentic. I got to change the ending of the story, so to speak," she explains. When the tattoo project is complete, there will be a dragonfly on Darlene's right breast and some words underneath that are meaningful to her. "I love the tattoo because instead of there being an absence of something, there is an addition of something beautiful," she says.
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  • Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, is photographed riding one of his horses near his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Semara Garcia Gutierrez, 43, is currently serving a three year prison sentence in Matanzas but was photographed while on weekend leave visiting her mother in Old Havana. "I took the fall for a friend during a street knife fight," she explains. "Prison conditions aren't too bad.There are problems with food and water but everyone has their own bed and the guards are usually kind," she says. She is enrolled in a cooking course in the prison and dreams of one day sharing a home with her female partner and working as a chef.  "Homosexuality is not accepted here in Cuba but people are becoming more open," she says. "My mother and grandmother have always accepted me," she adds. Of Cuban women she says "we are strong, beautiful and able to face anything because we've gone through so much already."
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  • Hawaiian cowboy, Wayne Tachera, stands at the top of Kahua Ranch, where he works and looks over the beautiful landscape after a hard day's work in North Kohala, Hawaii. Tachera lives with his two daughters, Kamehana, 10, and Nahe, 8, in "cowboy housing" which is subsidized by the ranch as part of a cowboy's benefit package. "We get free housing, free electricity, free water.  It makes up for cowboy pay because cowboy pay is not much at all"," says Tachera. "Sometimes we go to the mountain up there and you can see the whole entire ridge and beaches and stuff like that," says Tachera's older daughter, Kamehana, 10.
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  • Retired Parker Ranch manager and cowboy, Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, is photographed at his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Retired Parker Ranch manager and cowboy, Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, is photographed wearing his favorite cowboy hat at his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Kamehana Tachera, 11, pushes her sister, Nahe, 9, on a swing at Kahua Ranch in North Kohala, Hawaii, where their father, Wayne, is employed as a cowboy.  The girls' great-grandfather, grandfather and father are or were all cowboys and they live in "cowboy housing" on the ranch.  The girls learned to ride horses as toddlers and have grown up with the ranch as their playground. "It's beautiful up here.  Not many children get to see this lifestyle," says Kamehana.
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  • Semara Garcia Gutierrez, 43, is currently serving a three year prison sentence in Matanzas but was photographed while on weekend leave visiting her mother in Old Havana. "I took the fall for a friend during a street knife fight," she explains. "Prison conditions aren't too bad.There are problems with food and water but everyone has their own bed and the guards are usually kind," she says. She is enrolled in a cooking course in the prison and dreams of one day sharing a home with her female partner and working as a chef.  "Homosexuality is not accepted here in Cuba but people are becoming more open," she says. "My mother and grandmother have always accepted me," she adds. Of Cuban women she says "we are strong, beautiful and able to face anything because we've gone through so much already."
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  • Delsa Pena, 85, lives alone in a small dark apartment in Havana and spends her days walking around the city so that she doesn't feel too lonely. She has six children, 14 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. "The hardest experience in my life was when my husband fell in love with another woman and I had to leave him," she says. "I've always been unlucky in love," she adds. Of Cuban women she says, "we are beautiful loving and respectful. Before the revolution, we were domestic servants but now we have more rights and possibilities."
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  • Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, is photographed riding one of his horses near his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Gigi Ridgley, 78 years, is photographed at her home in Sagamore, MA. She was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer two years go after getting her annual mammogram  "I credit my doctor for being so thorough and for catching it early," she says. Her mother, aunt and grandmother all had cancer so the diagnosis didn't surprise her too much. Gigi moved to the Cape after marrying her late husband, Alda, in the 1980s and still lives in the house they shared together and that she still loves. "It was actually an old boarding house--the only house he could buy at the time because he was black and people didn't want to sell to him," she explains. "He spoiled me every day and I still miss him terrible," she adds. Gigi has a collection of wigs which she wears daily. "I've always loved wigs and it's nice being able to choose what hair to wear!" she says, laughing. She also belongs to the Red Hat Society, which was founded on the idea of women growing older playfully and on their own terms. "I enjoy connecting with the other women and having lunch out together," she says, surrounded by her collection of beautiful red hats.
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  • A beautiful yellow warbler eats an insect on South Plaza Island in the Galapagos.
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  • Delsa Pena, 85, lives alone in a small dark apartment in Havana and spends her days walking around the city so that she doesn't feel too lonely. She has six children, 14 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. "The hardest experience in my life was when my husband fell in love with another woman and I had to leave him," she says. "I've always been unlucky in love," she adds. Of Cuban women she says, "we are beautiful loving and respectful. Before the revolution, we were domestic servants but now we have more rights and possibilities."
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  • A beautiful yellow warbler eats an insect on South Plaza Island in the Galapagos.
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  • Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, is photographed riding one of his horses near his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Retired cowboy and ranch manager, Jamie Dowsett, 85, who spent most of his life on horses and has rich stories to tell, prepares a rope before riding one of his horses near his home in Waimea, Hi.  "I'm 85 years old and I still think that cows and horses are the best things that ever walked on earth.  I would give anything if I could still be a cowboy...being out there on the land where nobody bothers you, out in the open where it's quiet...the horses are giving you a wonderful ride in the beautiful countryside...that is a feeling not many people have the opportunity to experience," says Dowsett wistfully.
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  • Kamehana Tachera, 11, pets one of the horses at Kahua Ranch in North Kohala, Hawaii, where her father, Wayne, is employed as a cowboy.  The girls' great-grandfather, grandfather and father are or were all cowboys and they live in "cowboy housing" on the ranch.  The girls learned to ride horses as toddlers and have grown up with the ranch as their playground. "It's very beautiful up here.  Not many children get to see this lifestyle", says Kamehana who spends time caring for and riding horses after school.
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  • What I love so much about stand up paddle boarding is its ability to transport one, surrounded by nature, to a quiet, meditative state. On a perfect full moon, windless evening in late September, I got to photograph the nighttime version of this. Waterproof LED lights are attached to the bottom of the boards, illuminating the water below which meant the paddlers could see fish passing by. I photographed this from a jetty at a harbor near my<br />
house and was stunned by the beauty of it.
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  • What I love so much about stand up paddle boarding is its ability to transport one, surrounded by nature, to a quiet, meditative state. On a perfect full moon, windless evening in late September, I got to photograph the nighttime version of this. Waterproof LED lights are attached to the bottom of the boards, illuminating the water below which meant the paddlers could see fish passing by. I photographed this from a jetty at a harbor near my<br />
house and was stunned by the beauty of it.
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  • What I love so much about stand up paddle boarding is its ability to transport one, surrounded by nature, to a quiet, meditative state. On a perfect full moon, windless evening in late September, I got to photograph the nighttime version of this. Waterproof LED lights are attached to the bottom of the boards, illuminating the water below which meant the paddlers could see fish passing by. I photographed this from a jetty at a harbor near my<br />
house and was stunned by the beauty of it.
    JuliaCumesOutdoorLifestyle-001.jpg
  • What I love so much about stand up paddle boarding is its ability to transport one, surrounded by nature, to a quiet, meditative state. On a perfect full moon, windless evening in late September, I got to photograph the nighttime version of this. Waterproof LED lights are attached to the bottom of the boards, illuminating the water below which meant the paddlers could see fish passing by. I photographed this from a jetty at a harbor near my<br />
house and was stunned by the beauty of it.
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