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Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious “bearded” antelope. While one expert suggests the animal might only be suffering from hypertrichosis, a condition once known as werewolf syndrome, Torchio’s experience is the only known encounter with such an animal.

More 35mm B&W Photos from my recent trip to Japan.

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35mm B&W photos I took at the Tsukiji Fish Market in December.

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My recent trip to Japan was my second time in the country as a tourist. Having photographed many of the sites I visited with my digital SLR during my first trip, I decided to photograph the same sites using B&W 35mm film this time around. The camera I chose to shoot with was my Nikomat EL which was purchased by my uncle during one of his trips to Japan in the early 1970′s. It became my first camera when he gifted it to me some 20 years after he purchased it, and it accompanied me back to the country from which it was purchased almost 40 years ago.

It is by far my favorite camera (rugged, solid build, great optics, and simple mechanics) and I will be posting some of the images I captured with it in the coming weeks.

Meet Iran’s new anti-government campaigners -- men in headscarves, or hijab.

“In the mind of the Iranian authorities, women are inferior to men,” he said. “The ‘men in headscarves’ campaign is also a refusal by Iranians to this patriarchal and obsolete thought. It is a strong sign of solidarity with the struggle of Iranian women to enjoy full equality with men.” » Read the rest of this entry «