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Yunnan Province, China 2005 Almost every town in China has a population of at least a million, at least the towns that tourists see. I don’t know if this was Dongchuan or Yuanyang or another place. Before I started my … Continue reading
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A Uigar boy holds the horses at Kasghar market while his dad is othewise occupied. You can see the pride in the boy’s face. He has been trusted by his dad to take care of the horses and wagon and to guard whatever they have … Continue reading
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A Uigar man in Kashgar, Xinjing Provence China, spins silk thread from silk worm cocoons. The cocoons are boiled or at least softened in very hot water and by scooping them around a bit, the silk fiber forms. Several (4 … Continue reading
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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
