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Photographs of several men applying makeup and wearing costumes including Eric Gorsuch, Anselme D. Lenga, and Eve Starr are presented.

Photographs of several babies underwater for infant survival swim training are presented.

The article offers the insight of Devin Alberda, one of the dancers of the New York City Ballet, regarding the long-day rehearsal of the group at a theater which was designed to be blocked off from the natural light.

The article offers information on the International Kite Festival celebrated in Gujarat, India in January every year and various photographs of the event is also presented.

The article discuses the Harbin Ice and Snow World Festival held in Harbin, China until March 2014, which features the ice sculptures with colorful light emitting diodes (LEDs).

The article discusses Modernist buildings in Algeria designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

The article presents multiple photographs of actresses who appeared in motion pictures featuring the fictional character James Bond such as Jill St. John, Barbara Carrera, and Honor Blackman.

Several photographs of individuals eating at the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's by Nolan Conway are presented.

Photographs by Lauren Silberman are presented of empty rooms in abandoned buildings where entertainment company Rubulad, founded by Sari Rubinstein, hosted parties, such as a warehouse in the neighborhood of Gowanus and a church in the neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn, New York.

An image of a white shark breaching at night in False Bay, South Africa with a length of up to 20 feet and weighing up to two tons is presented.

Photographs of the regular lockdown drills in the Belle Plaine public high school are presented.

Photographs of Brazilian tourists in New York, including Maria Lucia de Oliveira Eluf, Igor Rigon and the Rossi family, are presented.

A review is offered for the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden located in Tokyo, Japan.

The article offers the insights of photographer and athlete Mike Escamilla, who ent to the spring-training camp of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team in Glendale, Arizona regarding a baseball game, along with several photographs of baseball game.

Photographs are presented depicting the top tourist spots and considered historical heritage areas including the medina buildings of Tangier, Chefchaouen and Tetouan in Morocco.

Photographs of Orthodox Jews Rachel and her husband Avraham Kolberg with several yogis are presented.

The article offers information on the tradition of pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick holy mountain in County Mayo, Ireland where Saint Patrick is said to have spent 40 days and nights fasting and praying.

Photographs are presented of New York City's Penn Station, which was built in 1910 and began to be torn down in 1963, ranking as one of the city's great architectural disasters.

The article presents photographs and information regarding the rock music group, the Bots, made up of brothers Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei of Los Angeles, California. Topics include preparation for the release of their first full-length album in 2014, praise and criticism received by the brothers, and the largest crowd the brothers have played for.

The article presents a photo essay showing how U.S. businesses honored former U.S. President John F. Kennedy after his assassination on November 22, 1963.

The article presents images by photographer Jan Staller of building materials lifted by crane during the construction of a luxury condominium on Charles Street in the West Village neighborhood of New York City, including metal cylinders, wood, and metal posts.

A photographic essay is presented on sunbathing by residents of New York City.

The article presents photographs of street art created by 'Pixadores' artists from São Paulo, Brazil, who often paint train cars and stations as part of their Whole Train Project.

The article focuses on the Equity Project Charter School, which opened in 2009 in New York City, and presents photographs of how the students have changed during their three years at the school. Topics include the admission of students through a lottery, the compensation of the school's teachers, and its unique curriculum.

The article presents photographs of memorabilia from the punk music group Bikini Kill, founded by Kathleen Hanna during the riot grrrl movement in the 1990s.

The article presents several photographs of U.S. college basketball coaches shouting or displaying extreme facial expressions during games, including Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University, Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Tom Izzo of Michigan State University.

Captions are presented to photographs of adults and children ice skating at outdoor public skating rinks recently constructed in Moscow, Russia.

The article presents several photographs of young men riding dirt bikes (trail bikes) in the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.

The article presents photographs of people checking their reflections in window mirrors in New York City, as part of an art project wherein photographer Brad Farwell placed a two-way mirror in a window and snapped photographs of passers-by, comparing the different looks at different times throughout the week.

The article highlights the horse racing championship event during the Irish National Hunt Festival in Dublin, Ireland.

After the cattle show and horse-pulling contest at the Essex County Fair in Westport, N.Y., comes the demolition derby. One of the few women to take part has been Jennifer Reisigl (in the green car, next page), a 25-year-old who has been racing since 2008; at this year's fair later this month, she will drive a 1988 Chevy Caprice. The safety rules laid out by the fair's organizers are enough to remind drivers of what can go wrong. Car doors are chained shut, and hubcaps, hood ornaments and windows removed. Participants must wear full-face helmets, seat belts with shoulder harnesses and clean, long-sleeved shirts and pants to guard against burns from leaked fuel or oil. ''Some cars start on fire, some will roll,'' Reisigl said, brushing off the question of danger. ''Nothing freaks me out.'' Fee to enter Essex County Fair demolition derby: $30 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For decades, the men's 100-meter final has been the glamour event of the Olympic Games, and the winner takes home bragging rights as the world's fastest man. Perhaps its pre-eminence is due to its simplicity: there's no time for endurance to kick in or midrace tactical adjustments to be made when the whole thing is over in 10 seconds. Which isn't to say a runner's approach doesn't matter. Some sprinters blast out of the blocks, trying to grab an early lead and unnerve opponents. Others build to peak speed and try to maintain it longer than the competition. But what you can't do is ''change your tactics in the middle,'' says Dave Johnson, director of the Penn Relays, one of the premier track-and-field events in the country. ''It's a race of total commitment in terms of strategy.'' Men's 100-meter world record (Usain Bolt, 2009): 9.58 seconds [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To New Yorkers, Edward Hopper is likely to evoke visions of moody nighttime urban scenes. But the painter created some of his most famous work in the bright seaside town of Gloucester, Mass., on Cape Ann, where he spent time in the 1920s. The photographer Gail Albert Halaban has been locating the original houses in Hopper's paintings there and taking pictures of them as they look today. Greta Bagshaw, whose husband's family has owned the ''Mansard Roof'' house at left since 1962, is accustomed to the attention. ''Not infrequently we've seen people who set up easels in our backyard to paint it,'' Bagshaw says. ''We know it's time to put up the awnings each year when we're eating on the porch and we turn around and see a big tour group watching us eat dinner.'' Amount Brooklyn Museum paid Edward Hopper for ''The Mansard Roof'': $100 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Before Jack Mubiru, a father of the skateboarding scene in Uganda, could build a half-pipe in his native Kampala in 2006, he had to avoid paying a construction fee, so he fabricated a story about building a private enclosure for a pet crocodile. Most local officials -- and neighborhood residents -- had never heard of skateboarding. Six years later, the sport has spread from the skate park to the streets, attracting children as young as 5 and adult women. Its profile is growing throughout eastern Africa, with skate parks built or planned in neighboring Kenya and Tanzania. Proponents of skateboarding say it gives participants a welcome leisure activity in countries where there are few other options. ''There is not much else for younger people to do,'' Mubiru says. ''So many people want to skateboard.'' Members of the Uganda Skateboard Union in 2006: 5 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Amy Winehouse was not fond of wearing black. She felt that it made her look ''a bit like a witch,'' Naomi Parry, her stylist of five years, says. For a tour last year -- canceled after one performance in Belgrade, a month before Winehouse died in July -- band members dressed in coral pink suits with sleek black shirts and velvet slippers. Parry designed a set of short, tight dresses for Winehouse in colors and prints inspired by the tour's tropical theme. Her big earrings often came from inexpensive shops around London; the Star of David necklace on a chunky gold chain was an heirloom from her grandmother. If Winehouse wore heels on stage, she usually kicked them off within 10 minutes and replaced them with a pair of comfortable ballet slippers, the kind worn by professional dancers. ''For gigs, she didn't like a lot of fuss,'' Parry says. ''She just wanted to get on with it. It was about her songs and her music.'' Time it took Winehouse to get dressed for a show: about 90 minutes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a statuesque 5-foot-9, Bunny Yeager had no trouble adopting the pinup poses of the '50s and '60s. Then she moved behind the lens and started taking the pictures herself. Born Linnea Eleanor Yeager, she took her nickname from Lana Turner's character in ''Week-End at the Waldorf.'' One of her most famous photos captured Bettie Page posing in front of a Christmas tree wearing only a Santa hat and a wink, a shot that helped make both of them famous when Yeager sold it to Playboy. Being a woman ''was probably an advantage,'' Yeager says, ''because young girls were relaxedwhen they posed for me.'' More than 250 of her pictures will appear in the book ''Bunny Yeager's Darkroom,'' coming from Rizzoli in September. Yeager still goes to her Miami studio every day. ''I'm 83 years old now, and I feel the same as when I started,'' she says. ''Now I am writing a new book. It is called 'Lovely Luscious Legs.' '' 'I didn't decide to become a photographer. It was forced on me. I took a course in photography to learn how to make copies of my professional [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the southern shore of Queens, away from scolding lifeguards and crowded boardwalks, a former military base has become one of New York's great hidden beaches. There at Fort Tilden, some beachgoers go topless and some forage the dunes for driftwood with which to build makeshift shelters with sheets and blankets. Mariana Garay, her husband and their two sons (one of whom is in the center picture on the next page) have driven down to Fort Tilden from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on summer weekends for the past three years. ''You're not surrounded by people selling things and eating hot dogs or lifeguards who are always blowing their whistles,'' Garay says. ''It's a different vibe, more lonely and quiet.'' But it isn't flawless. ''It's not the cleanest ocean,'' she adds. ''It's still New York, you know.'' Beach at Coney Island: 107 acres [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cost of wigs: about $150cost of hairbands and tiaras: about $150Cost of dresses: $1,500 to $4,000cost of socks: $5 (plain) or $15 (sparkly) The all-natural look did not win any prizes this year at the nine-day World Irish Dancing Championships in Belfast. The young girls among the dancers -- who came from as far away as China, South Africa, Australia and Canada -- applied spray-tanner and wore purple eyeshadow and pink lipstick and sparkly dresses and wigs with long ringlets. As the story goes among dancers, the curly wigs derive from the tradition of Irish girls dressing up for Sunday Mass. ''When they were going to church, they would curl their hair or put a bow in it,'' says Julie Showalter, who is a co-chairwoman of the North American Nationals, another major competition, which will take place in Chicago in July. ''And afterward they would gather just to be with their friends and family, and they would get up and dance.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Out in the Mojave Desert in California, a power plant that could eventually generate enough electricity for 140,000 homes hopes to get its moment in the sun soon. When the $2.2 billion solar thermal plant known as Ivanpah is completed -- sometime next year, if all goes according to plan -- nearly 350,000 mirrors on 3,600 acres will reflect light onto boilers. Steam will power turbines, which will generate electricity that flows to California homes. It will be the largest such plant in the world. These ''solar workhorses of the desert,'' says V. John White, an analyst in Sacramento and an advocate for renewable energy, ''can produce a lot of high-quality energy in the way that other renewable energies can't do. And there are only a handful of places on the planet that have solar radiation that good.'' But some opponents have criticized the Obama administration for pushing solar projects that don't pan out. The solar-panel maker Solyndra declared bankruptcy last year despite receiving $528 million in federally guaranteed loans, while BrightSource Energy, one of Ivanpah's developers, has benefited from a similar $1.6 billion government loan. It's expensive harnessing the sun. And the costs go beyond construction. BrightSource says that it has spent more than $56 million relocating desert tortoises. JULIE BOSMAN Photographs by Jamey Stillings [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The photographer Raphael Dallaporta calls the MiKroKopter a ''magic flying tripod.'' In 2010, he bought his own for less than $7,000 -- a German-engineered self-stabilizing drone that can be set up to shoot digital still photos. ''The great thing is when you pilot it, you get some sensation of flight,'' says Dallaporta, who steers it from the ground. ''To keep the control from earth you must be in connection with the elements like the wind and the sun.'' He first took his drone to northern Afghanistan to photograph archaeological sites that had not been documented before. (The drone was briefly lost till he offered a reward of 5,000 afghanis, or about $115, for it.) In May, Dallaporta took another drone, a new, upgraded version of the MiKroKopter, to Worcester, Mass., the site of several collegiate championship regattas, to photograph crews from as high as 330 feet over Lake Quinsigamond. digital camera dallaporta installed on his Mikrokopter: ricoh 28 mmhis preferred operating altitude: 50 to 100 meters [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture, often at a studio, with the resulting image framed and prominently displayed at home. The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two. So the Singaporean photographer John Clang devised a solution, piggybacking on the video-calling technology that already helps ease the dislocation of separated family members: Skype. Clang, who is based in New York, tried this with his own family first, then used the Internet, embassies and recommendations from friends to track down other Singaporean families with members there and in far-flung places. Those in Singapore stood before their webcam-enabled computers and called their distant relatives on Skype. In these various locations, Clang projected the Skype image onto a wall and then photographed the callers together with their flesh-and-blood kin. No Photoshop was needed, and the entire process is simple enough for people everywhere to take advantage of in migratory times. ''It bridges the gap between the two families that are apart,'' Clang says. One subject was Alexia Wai-Chun Tye, a 50-year-old investment adviser who has lived in Paris since 1999. Her 24-year-old daughter, Stephanie Chi-Weng Tsui, was educated there and in London but moved back to Singapore to take a job as an account-planning executive at Saatchi & Saatchi. Tye can be seen here posing in her Paris apartment with her partner, Pierre de Fouquet, a 57-year-old venture capitalist, while her smiling daughter beams in from Singapore. The picture, Tye says with satisfaction, was ''like a virtual family reunion.'' Photographs by Clang [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Texas Population: 25.7 million hunters in texas: 979,000 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Get as many leather jackets as possible, David Bowie told a stylist in April 1977. They were in Tokyo, and Bowie was preparing for a shoot with the photographer Masayoshi Sukita. The pictures had to have a punk attitude, it was decided, so Bowie wore faded jeans and one of the black jackets, with only a blank background behind him. He posed for Sukita for an hour, tousling his hair and plugging his ears with his fingers. They didn't talk much, because Sukita knew very little English and Bowie's Japanese was limited, but they still created an enduring image for his '' 'Heroes' '' album cover. The pictures, outtakes and all, are part of a new book, ''Speed of Life,'' a collaboration between the two of them that draws on Sukita's pictures of Bowie over a 40-year period. Nick Roylance, an owner of Genesis Publications, which is releasing the book in Britain in May and later this year in the United States, describes the photo shoot as practically an afterthought. ''That's what makes it especially interesting,'' he says. ''It was done so quickly and has become so iconic.'' peak billboard chart position of '' 'heroes' '' in u.s.: 35. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Attendance at st. athanasius on Typical weekend 2,500-3,000 Attendance on Easter Sunday 6,000-plus Weekend Masses in english 5 Weekend masses in spanish 3 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nothing enters the Steinway factory in Astoria, Queens, looking anything like a piano. The wood, for example, is just lumber, before it is shaped into the rim of the instrument. Assembling the pianos takes months, with a lot of waiting between steps so that the wood can be conditioned properly. Near the end of the process, each piano is wheeled into the ''pounding room,'' where 88 rubber fingers play the instrument for hours, breaking in the piano and exposing any problems or weaknesses. After being tuned several times, each piano has a final inspection. The last hands that touch every piano belong to Wally Boot, who has worked at the factory for almost 50 years and checks every key to ensure an even tone. Anthony Gilroy, a Steinway spokesman, says, ''There are still some things that are better done by hand.'' Pianos produced per year at the Queens factory: 1,500 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles was crammed with the political superstars of the day -- John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson -- as well as key staff members like Andrew Hatcher. Garry Winogrand took pictures of all of them, but his primary interest was elsewhere. ''He photographed the life, the back corners, the audience,'' says Leo Rubinfien, a photographer who is curating a retrospective of Winogrand's work opening at SFMOMA next year. ''The people watching the parade, not the parade -- that was how he worked.'' The prolific Winogrand, who died in 1984 at 56 in Mexico, where he went for cancer treatment, left behind thousands of unseen pictures. Among them are these photographs, discovered last year in his archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Only one from the convention is known to have been published: the picture of Kennedy at left, accepting the nomination and asking the party for ''your help and your hand and your voice.'' Total rolls shot by Winogrand in his lifetime: approx. 25,000 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Denver City, Tex., population: just over 4,500 Date oil was discovered at the Wasson field: June 19, 1937 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First year Peeps were made: 1953 Peeps produced annually: 2 billion [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Children and pets, exercise caution: if you are a small creature in the presence of Tierney Gearon, it is quite likely you will be lowered into a Plexiglas box and asked to hang out for a while. But Gearon, who is working on a photo book about shapes, says her subjects seem to enjoy their captivity. ''The funny thing is no one tries to get out,'' she says. ''That's what's so crazy. They just stay in there looking around.'' For the past two years, Gearon has shipped her materials -- sheets of magenta, turquoise, vivid yellow Plexiglas -- to picturesque locales like St. Barts and Telluride, where she assembles them and corrals her own four children (ages 5 to 18), along with friends and various pets, for the pictures. Even the family's Bengal cat, Striker, consented to a few minutes in a cube, where he luxuriated in the Malibu sun. ''Once they're in the box,'' Gearon says, ''they start doing their own thing.'' total Cost of Plexiglas: $20,000 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]