Burning Man 2015, part 2

The lamplighters circumambulate the Man prior to lighting him up on Saturday night.

The man blows up.

In the glow of the burning man.

Trevor and Cheer's boing board and their VW bus

Bridget, Larry and Daddy O

Trevor and Cheer 

Our neighbors' art car, the Neverwas Haul, a self-propelled 3-story Victorian house

R-Evolution at sunrise on Monday morning...

Monday morning, Burners gather around the embers from Sunday evening's Temple fire and waited for the sun to rise...

And that guy took off running naked towards the rising sun in the desert.

And then he stopped.

Burning Man 2015, part 1

Couldn't believe that this year marked my fifth time to venture out into the Nevada desert at the end of the summer for this giant spectacle of human creativity, ingenuity and wondrous sculptures.

Mannequins staring at their iPhones

Dusk on Thursday

The Man

These images are under a piece of art called Firmament.

Cozy cuddle puddle looking up at Firmament

At the Firmament at sunrise on Saturday morning...see some video of the installation with Steve Reich music here.

Some of the beautiful art seen at sunrise on Saturday...

Temple of Promise

Love by Alexandr Milov at dawn, the first official burning man art produced by a Ukranian

Firespinners at dawn...

Dawn at Camp Questionmark, possibly one of the better sound camps at Burning Man

Taragalte Festival, Morocco

Ismael and his nephew at the Taragalte Festival in the Moroccan Sahara.

Taragalte is a festival in the Sahara desert in the southern Morocco that celebrates the cultural heritage of desert people with a focus on music.  Musicians from the Sahara region gathered to play the stages and also played around the campfire under the stars.  Desert nomads, Tuaregs and locals from nearby villages also came to celebrate the weekend in the desert.

Locals raced their camels, (dromedaries actually), around the festival.

Main stage

These musicians were heating their drums' heads over the fire to tighten them.

Mehdi

Toni and Joan from Spain

Tommy illuminated by a bare bulb in the desert

Local girls

In the main camp area of Taragalte

Some tents among the dunes

A couple policemen look out from a sand dune.  The festival was fairly close to the Algerian border with Algeria.

View from the back of the main stage...the stars were so bright in the Sahara...you could practically see shooting stars streaking across the night sky anytime just by looking up for a minute.