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Fishing Boats, Hebei, China, 2003

Fishermen prepare their nets on Panjakou Reservoir in Hebei, China. This tranquil lake, formed when the Luan River was dammed in the late 1970s, hides a stretch of China's Great Wall. The submerged structure now serves as an artificial reef, which attracts the carp these fishermen seek.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Chasing the Wall," January 2003, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Michael Yamashita