Amy Toensing

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©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
   
Joey's Surf Club and Bar in Ortley Beach is a popular destination for twenty-somethings looking to show off their tan, toned bodies.©2001 Amy Toensing Photography
   
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©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
   
Old friends and summer residents of the small beach community of Ocean Grove meet in the afternoon to take a swim in the ocean and ride the waves.©2001 Amy Toensing Photography
   
©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
     
  
PORTLAND, ME - JUNE 01: High school sophomore Naima Abdulle catches her veil from flying away in the Maine ocean breeze on the East End Beach June 1, 2004 in Portland, Maine. Naima moved to Portland, Maine from Somalia with her family in 2001. As a Muslim female she is expected to uphold many of the customs and traditions of Islam in spite of the many influences from western culture. At the age of 17 she has chosen to get married and continue with her high school studies. (Photo by Amy Toensing)
   
©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
   
Little girls' dresses hang on a laundry line on a porch in Utuado.
     
  
Kids roam freely and safely in Ocean Grove, a small beach town in the northern part of the Jersey Shore. This town was settled as a Methodist retreat at the turn of the century and today remains a popular religious sanctuary as well as a summer vacation destination.©2001 Amy Toensing Photography
   
Harry and Doug Odom turn in beneath each other's portraits while Taxi keeps watch. "It's a good life," says Harry. The Odoms have been Lobstermen, merchants, and island benefactors for some 60 years.©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
   
A woman strolls along the Promenade Plantée, a five km long park built on an abandoned 19th-century railroad viaduct in eastern Paris.
     
  
   
A couple embraces on the Pont des Arts, a pedestrian bridge across the Seine in the center of Paris.
   
Friends meet on a lawn below Sacré Coeur for accordion music and laughs.
     
  
A woman sways to bomba music at El Ambbique bar in Loiza. The heavily percussive music originated more than two centuries ago with enslaved Africans brought to Puerto Rico to work the sugar plantations.
   
Mother and daughter embrace in the surf outside San Juan. The beaches are popular weekend destinations for Puerto Rican families.
   
Locals hang out at the El Andino bar November 17, 2000 in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
     
  
   
  
ahouts (Nepali elephant handlers) ride their elephants from camp to the playing field in the early morning in preparation for the 24th World Elephant Polo Championships December 02, 2005 in the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
     
  
   
  
     
  
A Widow combs out her hair after bathing in the courtyard of the Amar Bari ashram in Vrindavan, India.
   
Usha Pal wraps herself in a sari after bathing with a bucket of water. Usha has been a widow for over 20 years. She came to Vrindavan to live in an ashram and survive by praying and singing in the Hindu temples, where if she prays all day she will make six rupees, equaling about seven cents a day.
   
Picking only the darkest cranberries for their Thanksgiving feast, Winnie Murdock and her son Kyle forage on Manana, a deserted isle a skiff ride away that helps form Monhegan's harbor.©2007 Amy Toensing Photography
     
  
©2007 Amy Toensing Photography