Enough Already

End of the China series.  The last shot is not China, but Siberia on the trip home.  I was amazed by the scenes from the plane window as we flew over Alaska, the Bearing Sea and Russia.  I will post some of these in another blog later.  China.....people!

Don't Get on the Subway

I often get up early.  In Shanghai one morning I decided to get on the subway and ride with people going to work.  I arrived at the subway entrance (the previous pic with the little boy in the GAP shirt was the entrance) and was able to get a ticket and walk with at least 10,000 others down into the tube.  I chickened out when I read this overhead train schedule.  Huh!  I took a picture of the schedule and ran back to the hotel.  I could have ended up in North Korea.  The last shot is downtown Roanoke on a typical Saturday afternoon.

Art-chitecture and People

Architecture and people seem to have been my major subjects on the trip.  Why not, with 1.4 billion people and the need to house them?    This last shot is a man practicing to become a bridge.

China Too

I couldn't sleep tonight so I processed a few more shots of the trip.  I am attempting to give a sense of the vast numbers of people the country has to deal with on a daily basis and how remarkable their progress has been.  Reading on the street in Xi'an.  Modern convention center being constructed.  Washing clothes in the country.  Umbrella market.  Waiting at a bus stop.  Lowes delivery?  Bird market (birds are popular pets).  Long and short of it.  Building code: all transmission lines must stay 3 feet from residences.  School outing.  TV entertainment while waiting for the train.

Four Cities in China

We recently took a trip to China with 12 students from Charlottesville High.  Great trip and wonderful traveling companions.  Our trip concentrated on the cities of Shanghai, Xi'an, Hangzhou, and Beijing (combined population of 60 million) (the combined population of the 10 largest US cites is 23 million, about the size of Shanghai alone). So this photographic essay is going to be primarily about......people.  And more people.  With a few tourist shots added.  So....Shanghai is the early morning light, and at night.  Boy blowing bubbles.  Bullets. Tea leaf pickers.  Beijing architecture.  Xian Terracotta Warriors.  Children in a country home.  The Great Wall.  Stuck in traffic in a brake lighted tunnel.  Merchant. Kite.