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Yunnan Province, China 2005 I’ve been scanning my slides and negatives. Yesterday I decided to scan some negatives of China. I’d developed the film back in 2005 and placed the negatives in sleeves but never made proof sheets. I must have … Continue reading
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Yunnan Province, China 2007 The young man was herding a flock of sheep using only a sling shot of the type used by David when he slew Goliath. He’d pick up a suitable rock, lay it on the leather thong and whirl it around … Continue reading
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China 2005, Yunnan Province. We gathered on the top of the mountain. Below us were the famed rice terraces of Yunnan. We couldn’t see them, though. The fog was too thick. I’d never photographed in fog and I was shooting … Continue reading
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Quinghai Province, China 2007 The road rose and curved into the mountains as we left the verdant steppes behind. Prayer flags, colorful against the brilliant sky, fluttered in the cold wind on the mountain top. The flags have prayers and pictures on … Continue reading
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China 2007 Aboard the Lhasa Beijing Express Our guide, who shall be nameless, had a problem getting return train tickets to Beijing for our tour. His contact in Lhasa kept telling him that he’d have them any minute, but it was … Continue reading
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Yunnan Province, China 2005 It rained, causing the mysterious, beautiful karst hills to fade into a dull blue gray. The rice paddies were a brownish yellow. I remember our leader, Keren, remarking about the unusual circular rice paddy. My eye kept … Continue reading
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China’s Quinghai Province 2007 We visited this woman’s home and I tell the whole story here: http://www.rosemarysheel.com/archives/chinese-peasant This is a great portrait because her smiling face and “thumbs up” illustrates the old adage of “a picture is worth a … Continue reading
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Yunnan Province, China 2005 We were in Yunnan in November. It was supposed to be a month of beautiful weather, but we had fog every morning and rain during the day. Luckily, it wasn’t cold and I could wear sandals and … Continue reading
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Longji China 2005 These beautiful swirled terraces are more than 400 years old and are still being worked in the same manner as the first farmers who settled here. In many places in China, the rice terraces have caused the … Continue reading
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China, Yunnan Province 2005 An elderly peasant couple in the doorway of their home. We had spotted the man smoking his long clay pipe and, of course, swarmed to him with cameras ablaze. He had endured nearly a century of … Continue reading
