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  • I built this set in Cornell University’s sheep barn to illustrate a story for National Geographic on Sleep and Dreams.  We built it over a holiday weekend and were told that someone from the animal husbandry department would be around to help us get sheep onto the set.  So I became a bit nervous when our handler told us he was going to enjoy supper with his family leaving me to wrangle the sheep onto the set by myself.  “It’ll be easy,” he told me, “just get the most dominant sheep tied to the bed and the others will follow.”  After pointing out the most dominant sheep to me which didn’t look at all that dominant, he left. I led the begrudging sheep to the set, tied it to the bedpost and waited.  I waited quite awhile.  After more than a reasonable amount of time passed I noticed that the other less dominant sheep still looked quite content to be apart from the dominant one. What may have unnerved them was that I had rigged a stuffed sheep (doomed to die at a slaughterhouse) with all sorts of ropes and pulleys in a jumping position above the bed. (N.G. does not like to use Photoshop)  Every one of the sheep had to be carried onto the set.  None came by their own will.
    Counting Sheep 0001.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Smell 0072d Breath Testers.jpg
  • A milling machine in Turin Italy turns out a mock-up designed by Ford engineers in Detroit.
    Info Rev 0041b Turin Car.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Smell 0072b Breath Testers.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Smell 0072b Breath Testers-2.jpg
  • Slaves would follow the drinking gourd, the north star, across the Ohio River to Ripley, Ohio where Presbyterian minister John Rankin, one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad, would give them shelter.
    UndergroundRR 0035RankinHom.jpg
  • The 20-year anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech that he gave in August of 1963 drew as many participants.  Demonstrators gathered as before by the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the march.
    UndergroundRR 0031 DCMarch.jpg
  • The Mason-Dixon line marker at the Maryland border near Cardiff was the line between the slave and free states.  The "P" Stood for Pennsylvania, a free state.
    UndergroundRR 0030MasonDixo.jpg
  • Seminole Negro Indian Scouts protected the Texas border from Comanche and Apache raiders.  The Buffalo Soldiers earned praise from the highest ranks.
    UndergroundRR 0028Buffaloso.jpg
  • Some black Seminole indians moved to Mexico in 1849-50 after learning that Indian Territory was not off limits to slave raiders.  Dan Factor, a black Seminole ranches near Nacimiento, Mexico.
    UndergroundRR 0029Seminoles.jpg
  • Sweet potatoe planting on Cassina Point Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina during Union occupation in April 8,1862.
    UndergroundRR 0026PlantingP.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0019SlaveShip.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0012 Hitching.jpg
  • Considered derogatory by many blacks the hitching post, like this one was sometimes used to signal slaves that the coast was clear.  A lighted lantern or a bright cloth on the hitching post signal that all was clear.
    UndergroundRR 0010 Hitching.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0003Closeup.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0006.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0001closeup.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-848_Smell 0072c Breath teste...jpg
  • Greg Bartz, a Minnesota farmer sprays a synthesized boar pheromone at a sow he will artifically inseminate with the spirette in his left hand.<br />
Greg Bartz, a Minnesota farmer sprays a synthesized boar pheromone at a sow he will artifically inseminate with the spirette in his left hand.
    scf4327-836_Smell 0043 Sow Pheromone.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-299_Armpit Testers 0005.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-296_Armpit Testers 0001close...jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-295armpit testers 0001closeu...jpg
  • In our disposable culture where our building are not made to last, much of what will survive of our present culture will be our trash.
    scf4327-907_Trash 0020 Egypt Litter.jpg
  • In our disposable culture where our building are not made to last, much of what will survive of our present culture will be our trash.
    Trash 0020 Egypt Litter.jpg
  • Spools of fiber optic wire at Corning.
    Info Rev 0050 Corning.jpg
  • William Gibson is the science fiction writer who coined the term “cyber space” and authored, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, among other novels.
    Gibson William 0001.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Smell 0072 Breath Testers-2.jpg
  • Greg Bartz, a Minnesota farmer sprays a synthesized boar pheromone at a sow he will artifically inseminate with the spirette in his left hand.
    Smell 0043a Sow Pheromone.jpg
  • Greg Bartz, a Minnesota farmer sprays a synthesized boar pheromone at a sow he will artifically inseminate with the spirette in his left hand.<br />
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Greg Bartz, a Minnesota farmer sprays a synthesized boar pheromone at a sow he will artifically inseminate with the spirette in his left hand.
    Smell 0042 Sow Pheromone.jpg
  • At the height of the Civil War Black's were urged to take up arms.  This poster was sponsored by black adolitionists in Philadelphia and eventually some 8000 were called into service.
    UndergroundRR 0040 CivilWar.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0037JBrownSta.jpg
  • "His soul is marching on" sang by Union soldiers which became the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." John Brown's grave lies near his farm in Lake Placid, New York.
    UndergroundRR 0036JBrownGra.jpg
  • Slaves had to construct two-family cypress cabins at a proper distance from there masters mansion at Evergreen Plantation near New Orleans.
    UndergroundRR 0023 Shacks.jpg
  • In Atlanta, Georgia a slave auction house advertises its business.
    UndergroundRR 0022 Auction.jpg
  • Among the 2,000 slaves Levi Coffin assisted, William Bush, a  settler of Newport, reached Levi's house wearing wooden shoes.  William became a conductor for other runaway slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0018 W Bush.jpg
  • A detailed drawing of a slave ship.
    UndergroundRR 0020SlaveShip.jpg
  • Slave catching increased  with the use of reward posters.
    UndergroundRR 0015 Reward.jpg
  • Slave inventory from Natchez, Mississippi in 1849.  First names were listed with values and age next to them.
    UndergroundRR 0014SlaveList.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.  Guide is Kristin Henning.<br />
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In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0008 Milton.jpg
  • In the Wisconsin wilderness in 1844 five years after founding the town of Milton., Joseph Goodrich built a hexagonal inn and hand dug a tunnel from the inn's basement to a root cellar 40 ft away to hide slaves.
    UndergroundRR 0007 Milton.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0005.jpg
  • Napoleon Bonaparte made up for his lack of bathing by frequently dosing himself with prodigious quantities of perfume evidenced from his bill from the frangrance house of Houbigant.
    scf4356-097_Smell 0010 Napoleon Bona...jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-298armpit testers 0004.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-297armpit testers 0003closeu...jpg
  • Sri Lankan devil dancer chases away bad dreams for a client outside the town of Hikkaduqwa, Sri Lanka.
    scf4327-738sri lanka devil dance 000...jpg
  • Sri Lankan devil dancer chases away bad dreams for a client outside the town of Hikkaduqwa, Sri Lanka.
    fct4383-964_Sri Lanka Devil Dance 00...jpg
  • Sri Lankan devil dancer chases away bad dreams for a client outside the town of Hikkaduqwa, Sri Lanka.
    Sri Lanka Devil Dance 0001.jpg
  • Computers and Televisions inundate users with an avalanche of information that can empower or overwelm.
    Info Rev 0002 500 tvs.jpg
  • Computers and Televisions inundate users with an avalanche of information that can empower or overwelm.
    Info Rev 0001 500 tvs.jpg
  • I modified an original quote by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington to become, "If you put a hundred monkeys in the British Library with hundred typewriters for a hundred years – one of them would produce a Shakespeare play."
    100th Monkey.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Smell 0072 Breath Testers.jpg
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe drew on the story of a slave escaping with her baby on ice flows to cross the Ohio River to create the Eliza Harris character in "Uncle tom's Cabin."
    UndergroundRR 0034RiverCros.jpg
  • Levi Coffin, a Quacker, assisted some 2000 runaway slaves to freedom in the North.  A hostess holds his portrait in from of his Indiana home, then a stop along the Underground Railroad.
    UndergroundRR 0032LeviCoffi.jpg
  • Decendants of abolisionist William Still at their 114th Family Reunion in Lawnside, New Jersey.  William Still helped Henry "Box" Brown to Freedom.
    UndergroundRR 0025StillReun.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit testers 0004.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    Armpit Testers 0002longshot.jpg
  • These researchers worked at Hill Top Research Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio and every morning about 75 men and women would parade through their labs and offer up their pits, feet, breath and private parts in the name of olfactory science.
    scf4327-299armpit testers 0005.jpg
  • A monastery of monks sleep and meditate in this temple with a 50 meter-long sleeping Buddha north of Bangkok.  I  photographed the temple for a National Geographic story on Sleep and Dreams.
    Thailand SleepingBuddha0001.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    scf4327-900_American Trash 0002.jpg
  • Assistant John Knoebber and I traveled with 42 cases of checked luggage and six carry-ons for most of a year-and-a half-long assignment on dinosaurs for National Geographic Magazine.  This picture was shot in Argentina.
    Psihoyos Luggage 0001.jpg
  • Garbage barges transported some 20,000 tons of garbage out of New York City to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island every day for several decades.  For a story I proposed on trash to National Geographic, I decided to ride a garbage barge as it motored past Gotham. Getting the pile of trash with the city in the background would be a powerful juxtaposition.  Having finished the shoot and waiting to get out of the stinking barge to the dump, I began strolling down the rows of barges back to the pilot house when I noticed the plastic American flag banner just as we were drifting by the Statue of Liberty.   I quickly climbed onto the revolting refuse and snapped about 10 pictures before we sailed out of range. Inspecting the film, I later noticed that there were quite a few other objects in the trash with the banner, including the infamous, kitchen sink.  After this shot was taken, barges had to be covered with giant nets so trash wouldn’t blow into the rivers and bay.  Freshkills Landfull was declared full in 2001 and later reopened in 2002 to discard the Trade Towers.
    American Trash 0002.jpg
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