[Leica] Fengdu

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nathan,
Thanks for looking. I suppose everybody has to make do the best they can
with the hand they have been dealt - the industrial pollution is  the trade
off for higher living standards, after all. Let us not forget as well that
a fair part of the pollution is a direct consequence of the US consumer's
insatiable thirst for cheap goods...and as such can be seen as an export
from rich countries to poor ones, where life is cheap...
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> When I saw the first images, with the pollution, I thought “this place
> must be hell”. But the smiles you show towards the end of the set paint a
> different picture. Interesting to see parts of China other than Beijing,
> Shanghai and Hongkong.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> On 06 Nov 2014, at 07:14, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Continuing on our trip down the Yangtze, after passing the Three Gorges
> > (Xiling, Wu and Qutang), we came to the old city of Fengdu, where over
> > 100,000 people were resettled in the aftermath of the Three Gorges Dam,
> > when their villages were inundated due to the rising waters of the
> > reservoir.
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> > We came to the city early morning in the gloaming:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1128.jpg.html
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> > We were to do a shore excursion in the morning, but so many tourists were
> > about that there were no local guides available, and we disembarked only
> > after lunch! First stop was to meet some farmers' families, both original
> > inhabitants and resettled ones. I just got some portraits:
> >
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1621.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1674.jpg.html
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> > Walking on the streets and alleys of this town, card and mahjong players
> > were around every corner - it seemed to be an extremely popular pastime:
> >
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1704.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1744.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1761.jpg.html
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> > We then visited a local kindergarten school - kids, as ever, were curious
> > and friendly, with no inhibitions whatsoever in interacting with us:
> >
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1716.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1738.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1728.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1742.jpg.html
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> > Even on the roads, mothers and kids were everywhere:
> >
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1766.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1769.jpg.html
> >
> > Finally, in a vegetable market:
> >
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1753.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
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> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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