.......The Images

Manaus

As the level of the Rio Negro rises, the people that live at the Igarapés have to raise the planks to access their homes. Later on, the ritual inverts as the river drops again.	Frontal view of the Catholic Church of São José do Operário, at the "Praça 14" borrough.	Close to the Porto of Manaus, a "wall" of containers seperates the busy commercial town centre from the cargo area of the port.	The always congested, but green, Av. Getúlio Vargas in the town centre.	Statue adorning the entrances to the Teatro Amazonas, at the Largo de São Sebastião.
Part of the customized internal decoration of the Teatro Amazonas (TA), Manaus' Opera House, built during the rubber boom and inaugurated in 1898.