[Leica] IMGs: A warm afternoon in Guangzhou Cultural Park

[lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Very nice set! The last one is my choice
Lluis


> El 14 maig 2018, a les 19:17, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> va escriure:
> 
> Jet lag grabbed me by the throat while we visited the GZH Cultural Park. 
> Friends walked through the Museum of the Thirteen Hongs that featured 
> items from Canton?s early trading days. I?m sure there are epic stories 
> about how much of this was saved from the ravages of the Cultural 
> Revolution. A passport was needed to enter (if you?re a foreigner) and I 
> didn?t have mine with me. So I strolled the grounds while others toured.
> 
> I found this broom quite pleasing. The design is completely typical. We 
> saw them everywhere.
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-fvV6s27/A>
> 
> I love this decorative tradition that we saw virtually everywhere:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-SGhsvLs/A>
> 
> The grounds served a propaganda role with messages from the state 
> inscribed everywhere, sometimes with real cultural dissonance: 
> 
> This one says (essentially) ?Don?t take bribes.? Of course it does. I?d 
> have chosen exactly this figure for that message:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-Fm5RTRK/A>
> 
> This one urged civility and the respect of elders:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-j3j2S78/A>
> 
> I enjoyed the feel of it immensely:
> 
> 
> And then there was a young policeman, a student policeman I gather, in a 
> uniform for someone of a much sturdier frame.
> 
> He came across a very pregnant kitty soaking up the sun. What would 
> happen? Cat and spectators wondered!
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-SbbZnV8/A>
> 
> There was a greeting:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-QJkVv7r/A>
> 
> And then:
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/Travel/2018-China-Adams-Cut/i-48bB88r/A>
> 
> The young man carefully removed fleas. When he walked to the shade the 
> kitty followed and the nit-picking continued for perhaps a half-hour.
> 
> Just a quiet afternoon in the Cultural Park.
> 
> Most of these were shot with a Sony NEX-6 I borrowed from my wife.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Adam
> 
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