POTD

Guardian of the Gorge
Tianmu Grand Canyon, China
2015

Pagoda In Mist
Lin’an, China
2015

We were in the mountains around Lin’an for three days and it was cloudy and periodically foggy the whole time, but with essentially no rain except the night we arrived. The last day, as we were loading the bus to return to Shanghai, the sun came out. One of the artists on the tour said disgustingly “So, now it comes out. Why couldn’t it have been sunny the last three days?” I was really taken aback by that comment because coming from such a dry climate as Montana  I thought the fog was a rare gift, especially the way it would come in moody, mysterious swirls rolling up or down a canyon, enveloping and then releasing you. Without moving an inch the scenery could change dramatically from one minute to the next as hills and mountains were hidden and then revealed. It was quite magical and I felt really lucky to experience it.

Bamboo Cutter
Lin’an, China
2015

This is in fact an out of focus photo of a guy cutting bamboo on a foggy morning, but I like it not so much for it’s actual content as for the abstract arrangement of it’s color shapes and patterns.

Howl
Lin’an, China
2015

Passage
Tianmu Grand Canyon, China
2015

Fish Fence #1
Hangzhou, China
2015

Makeup
Xitang, China
2015

Lectio #60
Shanghai, China
2015

Chinese Checkers
Shanghai, China
2015

The game being played here isn’t actually Chinese Checkers. I just called it that because some Chinese are playing the game and it involved the jumping of and capturing of pieces like the American checkers game does. However after watching for a bit it was clear that it was a lot more complicated than checkers; so much so that the players were taking a long time to make each move. They were also getting pretty continual advice from their audience as to what to do next.

This Machine Runs on Capitalism
Shanghai, China
2015

The communist party may run the country but it’s pretty clear that the economy runs on capitalism. Business is bustling and entrepreneurism abounds.