POTD: China Street Life #6
China Street Life #6
Jiuquan, China
2016
With the content on the billboard, this photo would also qualify for my series Lives Real and Imagined as well as Lost in Translation.
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China Street Life #6
Jiuquan, China
2016
With the content on the billboard, this photo would also qualify for my series Lives Real and Imagined as well as Lost in Translation.
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China Street Life #5-Brooms and Mops
Jiuquan, China
2016
Not, much actual life evident in this photo of a mop, but it is symbolic of a lot of what goes on outside the shops and stores in the cities. The streets and sidewalks are always very clean and they do all the work by hand, with brooms and mops. I’ve actually accumulated quite a collection of photos of the unique (to an American) types of brooms and mops they use in China.
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China Daily Life #4
Jiuquan, China
2016
A roving fish monger. He drives up, you pick your (live) fish, and he cuts it’s head off, guts, and cleans it while you wait. An extreme version of “farm to table”.
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China Daily Life #3
Jiuquan, China
2016
In the middle working on this series of daily life photos, I decided at least some of them really ought to be processed in color. While I don’t like to mix color and b&w images in the same series, I’m going to do it anyway.
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China Daily Life #2
Jiuquan, China
2016
Note: Some of you have wondered if I’m still in China or not. I actually returned home a week ago. But with a boatload of images, you can expect to see photos from China for at least the near future!
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China Daily Life #1
Jiuquan, China
2016
I suppose my Chinese friends would think some of this collection of “daily life” images mundane, or at least uninteresting as it simply shows folks going about their routine daily activities. But to an American it can look quite new and different.
I suspect the Chinese feel the same way about what they encounter when visiting over here–which would certainly explain why I see so many Chinese tourists pointing their cameras in seemingly uninteresting directions. Of course as with Americans, some of the Chinese insist on featuring themselves in an unending stream of selfies in front of random locations. That takes the travel photography product to a whole new level of mundanity, or worse.
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Lost in Translation #3
Jiauguan, China
2016
This shot came out a bit blurry, but I love the message. Can you guess where this sign was posted?
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Lost in Translation #2
Jiuquan, China
2016
This sign was posted above the free-standing bathtub in my hotel room in Jiuquan. Apparently there is some concern that sitting on the edge of the tub might actually tip it over.
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The exhibit of nine American artists (of which I am one) in Tsing Tao, China is now in place. The exhibit space is made of five shipping containers stacked three high and is located in the parking lot of an upscale shopping area. (Prada, Hermes etc.–names that impress the Fashion Queen.)
I was not at the reception for the show, but by the looks of two of the artists (Parks Reece and Jenny Balisle) who were, a good time was had by all. The other photo shows one of my photos in the exhibition.
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Turn the Crank
Jiuquan, China
2016
I like the way the emblem on this human-powered cart suggests the movement of the pedals when in motion.
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