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Copyright: Rabani HMA (rabani)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1304 W: 1 N: 3097]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (8927) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-04-26 |
| Categories: Daily Life |
| Camera: Canon 40D, Canon EF 70-200 f/4L |
| Exposure: f/8, 1/250 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-04-27 18:17 |
| Viewed: 226 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
I just couldn't take my eyes of him.
There were helos chattering overhead and special ops fastboats spurning whites trails on the water around the port that day but for a brief moment, this retired American paratrooper caught my attention.
There is something funny about him. It wasn't his military issue floppy or the artwork on his black t shirt. There is something strange about his ears.
Perry Westfield is not your normal tattooed Iban, Murut or any other long housed inhabited ethnics of Sabah with a ear do. He is a retired American GI (82nd Airborne) and has been working on his ears' "loop" work, which he said, took him about 12 years to where his loops are at now. He started with a pin prick size and work from there, slowly.
Guessed when it comes to body artwork, it works with any colors of the skin. |
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Oh my, what a character, so many questions, such as, as he gets older and his skin sags, will he have to use bigger and bigger circles, what it must look like when he removes them, and sleeping, as you turn you head on the pillow, how annoying it must be.
I'm, coming to Malaysia (Penang and Langkawi only probably). You live in Sabah? I considered coming there but it seems the Kinabalu climb is complicated, needs advance planning, reservations etc. Still there is a chance I may go there. Your photos from Semporna especially are convincing reasons to go there.
- trekks
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 973 W: 108 N: 1345]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif)
(4759) - [2008-04-29 23:40]
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hi Rabani
I find this a good subject that is quite out of ordinary. A man of taste for his own pleasure. Perhaps to show the world his liking in style. Against the inconveniences.
tfs, bill
