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China, 2007: A Photographer's Tour
Photographing in China
China is a photographer's dream.
Everywhere you point the camera there is a shot.
Although our trip was focused on nature I took as many shots of people, street scenes and buildings.
The contrast between modern and old is everywhere: cars - bicycles, traditional adults - modern kids,
hand labor in fields - cranes in cities, raging mountain rivers - dams for hydro-electricity.
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On my last trip I took photos of some people in the village of Wolong.
I paid for some of the shots and stole the rest.
I decided to take prints back to the village this year.
Since I couldn't speak Chinese and no one seemed to understand English
I just pointed at the people in the prints and did the universal shrug.
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I was mobbed; villagers grabbed the prints, passed them around and then
carefully put them back in my plastic pouch.
They then carefully pointed at each print and then in the direction I should walk.
Within an hour and a miles walk I found all of the people except one and gave them the prints.
Most were delighted and all of their family and friends were thrilled. At the last house, beyond the village in the country,
the daughter of the man whom I had presented with a photo asked, by pointing and waving if I would photograph her son.
I happily obliged. On the walk back through the village I was approached by four other women with small children to take their photos.
One woman who ran a restaurant gave me her business card, in Chinese, so I could mail her the prints.
I am happy to report that her photos have gone to the US post.
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