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Yuanyang, Yunnan Province,China This photo abounds in geometry. All the lovely lines of the terraces emphasized by the cut stalks of rice. How could this photo need any post processing? Originally the photograph was not interesting to the eye because although the … Continue reading
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A group of Khampa in downtown Yushou. The man in the fedora looks rather dashing, doesn’t he? The Khampa are Buddhist and a Tibetan group. They are a warrior tribe. The men and women are tall and muscular. Traditionally men wear … Continue reading
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We stopped for lunch in a small town in western China on our way to Tibet. Tibetan people live here as well. It is common to see monks in their scarlet robes. They might also be wearing a cowboy hat … Continue reading
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Labor Intensive The lines of yellow are shocks of cut rice waiting to be threshed in the field or bundled into bales and carried to the farmer’s home. I was standing on the adjacent hill when I took this photo. I … Continue reading
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Yunnan Province, China. Golden rice terraces, yellow canola fields and freshly plowed red earth cover steep mountains and deep valleys in China’s Yunnan Province. It is a beautiful area and is inhabited by tribal minorities who still wear their traditional … Continue reading
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The phrase, “As I Am, So Shall You Be”, was on a sign in the catacombs of an Italian city. Can’t remember which one. It was placed in front of a pile of bones from the early Christians. Chilling, maybe, … Continue reading
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In the old days, men spent their lives as beasts of burden along many of the rivers around the world, such as the Yangtze and the Volga. We call them ‘trackers’ and maybe that is a translation of what the Chinese … Continue reading
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Quinghai Lake is in western China and is the largest salt water lake in China. Quinghai means “blue sea” in Tibetan. Quinghai Provence borders on Tibet and is inhabited by Tibetans. It is a beautiful land of open steppes and treeless mountains dotted with … Continue reading
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The Rice Harvest Yunnan Province, China. It was autumn and the people were in the rice terraces, cutting, drying, threshing and hauling the rice harvest to the villages. There were as many women in the field as there were men … Continue reading
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Rice terraces in artistic swirls cover the mountains of Longji, one of China’s many unique landscapes. Local tribes began planting rice here 400 years ago. They fashioned irrigation pipes using hollowed bamboo trunks. The people keep fit walking up and … Continue reading
