More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the Burning Man 2011 “Rites of Passage” arts and music festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)
BLACK ROCK CITY, NV – SEPT 2: First-time Burner Sonja Lercer of Whistler, B.C., Canada, dances on the LOVE installation at last week’s 25th annual Burning Man festival. (Photo by Keith Carlsen For the Washington Post)