These 15 Remarkable Photographs of China Will Transport You Halfway Across the World

Okay, we have the spectacular photos.  Maybe Buzz can provide some insider tourist info.  Have you visited any of these places?  Does anyone else have stories and photos to share?

Other than just a couple of us nobody really gives a shit about beautiful images, or anything outside of America, so if you want an article to be popular, make it about Trump.  How about an edited images of Trump contest?

Other than just a couple of us nobody really gives a shit about beautiful images, or anything outside of America, so if you want an article to be popular, make it about Trump.  How about an edited images of Trump contest?

Yeah, I've noticed that photo essays don't attract much attention.  I'd broaden your suggestion to a meme and AI image contest.  If that's the stated topic then it's more difficult to throw off-topic flags.

I guess that you posted this for me.  I hope you don't mind that I made a few adjustments (but no deletions) to what you posted.  I have numbered the images for ease of refering to them in comments, made the images fit the page since most of them ran off the page, and inserted spaces for clarity.  If you're unhappy with what I did I can return it to your original form. 

Yes, I am familiar with and have been to what is depicted in some of the images and am posting my versions to match some that are from the seed.  However, I should point out that Gsquared has taken many outstanding photos in China, and I hope he will post some as a comment here as well. 

For image number 2, I have also taken a photo of a fisherman's net being dried: 

Drying nets at the ancient village of Langmei

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The carved out mountainside in photo number 5 is something that you will see in many places in China.  Here are Buddhas carved out of the mountain at Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang in Henan Province.

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Photo number 6 is my favourite of all the ones in the seed.  Here is something similar from my photos, but not even close to being as dramatic. 

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This one does show more mountains fading in the mist behind the pagoda.

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You want spring rapeseed flowers photos as in number 7 image?  I've got plenty of them.

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As for number 9, here is Buzz guarding the Mao Memorial Hall at the Forbidden City. 

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And finally, when it comes to The Great Wall (number 15), here is one of my photos of it taken while I was on it. 

I guess that you posted this for me.  I hope you don't mind that I made a few adjustments (but no deletions) to what you posted.  I have numbered the images for ease of refering to them in comments, made the images fit the page since most of them ran off the page, and inserted spaces for clarity.  If you're unhappy with what I did I can return it to your original form. 

Yes, indeed.  The photos were interesting to me and I thought you might enjoy seeing them.  The first image of the Da Shuhua tradition is something quite different than anything here.

I used to subscribe to both Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic Magazine.  Over the years they have changed, I have changed, and life happened.  

Yes, I am familiar with and have been to what is depicted in some of the images and am posting my versions to match some that are from the seed.  However, I should point out that Gsquared has taken many outstanding photos in China, and I hope he will post some as a comment here as well. 

My intent was to encourage conversation and offer a chance for travelogues.  They don't need to be limited to China.  It's a big world.

I like your images.  Since you live in China, you can photograph everyday things that the National Geographic photographers would miss or think uninteresting.  The tourist and travel photographers seek out the unusual but don't report the mundane art of living.

The Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou

Gate at the Giant Wild Goose Pavilion, Xi'an

Boat on a Canal, Zhouzhuang

Very nice photos.  The thatched roof in the first image and the canal boat background are both interesting.  Is there any risk of flooding on the canals?

The mix of what appears to be potted tropical plants with the evergreen tree in the second photo is interesting, too.  

Thanks.  From what I understand there is some risk of flooding on the canals, especially from rapid climate change and local urbanization.  Zhouzhuang is a water town known for its canals.  It is over 900 years old.  It was about an hour's drive from Shanghai.

There has been some very bad, even deadly, flooding recently in areas of China these days because of excessive rainfall.  It has not been a problem where I am.  Here the problem these days has been excessive heat, well over 100 F, even during the night.  One of Chongqing's nicknames, besides The Mountain City, is One of the Three Furnaces of China. 

I like Gsquared's photos of China better than my own.  

I like Gsquared's photos of China better than my own.

Your shot of the Buddha and courtyard is pretty cool.  Looks like some maintenance underway, too, which adds interest.  The structure (pagoda?) and mountains is unusual; there must be a story about that.

The diverse fashion statement is interesting, too.  What I find most interesting about that photo is the automobile in the background.  But, then, I kind of weird.

Yes, there is some maintenance happening in the Image of the Buddhas, and a girl posing for a photo that is obviously being taken of her with the Buddhas in the background.  No story I know of with the pagoda.  I just thought it was an interesting photo with the mountains in the background, but I posted it for the contrast similarity with the number 6 photo you had posted.  By diverse fashion did you mean the combination of a tartan scarf with a Greek fisherman's hat?  The hat has a story.  I bought it at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco - it was unusual, not only for the material but the colour, and gained notice and compliments from others, but after so many years it finally wore out.  One guy who had a girlfriend I liked (way back when my first marriage had broken up) loved the hat so much he said he'd trade anything for it.  I told him I'd trade it for his girlfriend, but he backed out of his offer.  LOL

If you're looking for photos with stories, this photo taken during the fall in a park behind the school in Zhengzhou where I taught English made me think of the line in the song Autumn Leaves: "But I miss you most of all, my darling, when Autumn Leaves start to fall".

You spoke of the auto in front of the wall.  I'm standing in Tiananmen Square across the street from it.  It's a main thoroughfare in Beijing, and when there is a big parade, it goes past that wall.  As you can see, up above in the wall are places where dignataries sit to watch those parades.  There is a big parade coming up at the beginning of September to celebrate the victory over the Japanese 80 years ago that will have thousands of participants, and armaments.  I'll be watching it on TV.  

I posted more on my comment since you first saw it. 

If you want stories about the photos from the article, here is the one about the bride photo.  Soon after I came to China someone I met was an agent for actors and he had me do a TV ad for a sore back medication, but the big one was for me to officiate at the "western" wedding of a young couple, in front of at least 100 people in the audience.  I got the wording for a wedding from the internet and read it in English, but when I came to the part of pronouncing them to be married I improvised by saying "And so, with no authority I pronounce you man and wife.  You may kiss the bride."  Nobody noticed, most likely since not many understood English anyway.

In all honesty we do see a lot of photos of China on this forum. Maybe people would like a little variety. 

In all honesty we do see a lot of photos of China on this forum. Maybe people would like a little variety. 

Fair enough.  I'll see what I can do.  You could give us some ideas by posting some photo essays, too.  Aren't there any photo essays for Chicago?

Nigeria

Excellent!  Photos of the mountainous regions of west Africa aren't that common.  The valley town is interesting.  Are those mostly residential buildings?  The falls are located in central Nigeria, aren't they?   I recognized the rock but had to look it up.  Zuma Rock?  The mural is spectacular, I like that.  

This one is quite striking.

This one is quite striking.

Yes, indeed.  I had to look it up, that's Zuma Rock.  The businesses and signs don't look too different from small towns around here.  That looks like the road through Macon, MO.  Of course, Macon doesn't have a rock. 

Must be a little different with that view out the window.  

That has to be one of the main roads in the area, if not in the entire country. 

Beautiful photos.