Category: China

Magic Dragon

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On our last day in China we went to see Red Mountain park in downtown Urumqi. I took a few pictures around there, here is one of them. They have a working Buddhist church there, wait, not sure if it should be called a church, it was not a monastery, so there is probably name for it, I just can’t come up with it right now. So the place is full with smoke and smells from burning candles and some type of long smelly burning sticks. I might show one of those in the next few days.

This dragon is very simple, I think it is made by heavy press out of sheet metal, it just looks kind of cool with all that background and little spider webs. Enjoy.

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Urumqi Street Police

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After last year summer unrest in Chinese XinJiang province, the capital is still full with Chinese Military police. They usually walk in groups of 5+ people. At one place we saw about 30 of them cooling off in the shade. 
I was seating on the curb and waiting for Katia and Wiff, I had my camera on my lap, ready to shoot. These guys suddenly appear marching towards me. I took a few shots from my lap, for some reason I didn’t want to bring camera to my face and look at them through the viewfinder, and I didn’t shoot when they were walking past me just a few feet apart. I guess, when you face with military policy, who has automatic guns and other weaponry, you try to make safe choices and not aggravate them by taking photos with large camera. Who knows what type of orders they have.

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All on Board

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We were riding bikes around Beijing that day. End of July, it was probably one of the worst smoggy weeks in Beijing, or maybe it is normal… it really sucked. You can see what it looked from the high rise, not a pretty site – “Beijing Blue Skies… Not”.

Anyway, the air was white, the sky was white and it was humid like in the sauna. We stopped at the north side of the Hou Hai (Back Sea) lake for a little break, I put my camera between the rail separating the sidewalk and the lake and fired a few shots.

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Personalities

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They were made by the same maker. Long time ago they looked the same. Over many years each developed its own personality adopted from the people it provided its shelter. What would they look like 10 years from now?

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Window to Nowhere

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Previous two posts had some windows in it so I decided to dedicate at least two more more posts with some type of windows in it.

I really like these over burned breaks they used to shut this window. We spent only 2.5 days in Urumqi, with one of them being away in Turpan, so we tried to walk around the city when we could and see different sites. I saw this window on one of the main roads, not too far from our hotel. Pretty cool.

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