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School girls on a field trip, Tehran.
a5307_48.tif		 Esfahan
a5466_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5467_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5479_163.jpg		 Esfahan
a5486_131.jpg		 A mullah, Esfahan.
a5487_200.jpg		 Mother in chardor, daughters in scarves and manteaus.
a5490_200.jpg		 Orange is rarely seen in Iran. She is probably a tourist. Esfahan.
a5545_37.jpg		 Esfahan
a5593_85.jpg		 Two women enjoy a sunny afternoon, Esfahan
a5599_200.jpg		 Looks like they just gave each other a high-five. Esfahan
a5625_200.tif		 Could you take a picture of me? Esfahan
a5629_200.tif		 Three students. Esfahan
a5632_200.jpg		 Two women at the teahouse, Esfahan.
a5718_54.jpg		 Esfahan
a5781_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5792_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5823_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5833_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5839_200.jpg		 Esfahan
a5860_85.jpg		 Triple date?? Esfahan.
a5868_85.jpg		 Shiraz
a6029_200.jpg		 Shiraz
a6030_104.jpg		 Shiraz
a6045_104.jpg		 Shiraz
a6066_200.jpg		 Shiraz
a6067_140.jpg		 Shiraz
a6070_200.jpg		 Shiraz
a6071_200.jpg		 Two teachers round up their students in front the Mausoleum of Shah-e Cheragh. Girls this age don't usually wear chadors. Some of them do here because they are about to visit the shrine, a holy site to Shiite Muslims.
a6085_200.jpg		 Shiraz
a6101_200.jpg		 Dress in layers: Nike shoes, jeans, manteau, magnae, jacket, handbag, then chador on top of all that. Shiraz
a6116_200.jpg		 White chadors are mostly worn during prayers. Shiraz
a6133_149.jpg		 Three women at the bazaar in Minab, a small town in Southern Iran. The woman to the left has a burqah on, common in Arab Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia, but rarely seen in Iran. She is probably of Sunni minority.
a6156_70.jpg		 The bright-colored mask is a fashion statement, not a religious requirement.
a6160_154.jpg		 Minab
a6170_145.jpg		 A masked woman in Minab.
a6176_200.jpg		 Photographing Iranian women is hard. They usually turn away or cover their faces with chadors as soon as they see a camera. The big white lens I use probably didn't help either. I've asked people if I could take a picture of them and the universal answer was NO. Almost all my people pictures are either candid shots from far away or of people I know. This picture shows a rare instance where one of the girls actually smiled into the camera, but the other one is probably saying "leave us alone".
a6183_200.jpg		 Women in Minab tend to wear more colorful clothing than what we saw elsewhere in Iran.
a6185_200.jpg		 Kerman
a6317_200.jpg		 Yousef. On our bus ride from Bam to Kerman, we befriended a couple and their two kids: Yousef and Fatimeh. They invited us to their home for lunch and took us to Mahan the next day.
a6311_50.jpg		 Fatimeh
a6336_154.jpg		 Fatimeh makes a face.
a6366_126.jpg		 Yousef is full of energy and never stopped running the two hours we were in Mahan. Trying to get a picture of him was harder than photographing women. I had other elements working against me: slow lens (up to F/4), fading day light, and AI Servo not working very well on my D60. Over 40 pictures of Yousef, not a single one in focus. I either have to be a better photographer or buy a more expensive lens. I think the later is probably easier to do. :)
Yousef_flat.tif		 Yousef finally paused for half a second when Wade gave them some dried cranberries.
a6368_78.jpg		 Kerman
a6397_200.jpg		 Lot of fabric to hold on to. Kerman
a6403_200.jpg		 The colorful chadors used to be pretty popular before the Islamic Revolution. Nowadays, they are mostly worn by older women.
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