[Leica] Xi'an

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Tina, Ric, Montie, George
Thanks for looking. The Great Wall is close to Beijing, so it is yet to
come. Shopper is my usual B&W conversion - there were too many distracting
colours in the shops in the background, so WHAM, convert to B&W. Use a
bluish-green filter in Silver Efex Pro to accentuate the lips, and that is
it!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:20 AM, George Lottermoser <
george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

> informative captions
> +
> beautiful photographs
> and
> Shopper - stopped me for the longest time.
> Stunningly beautiful subject
> superbly captured
>
> a note off the iPad, George
>
> On Nov 13, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>
> > I like Shopper, but then again you probably guessed that :-)
> >
> > You're improving my knowledge of China. X'ian looks fascinating and has
> well over eight million people living in it - twice the population of
> Ireland!
> >
> > Douglas
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <
> jayanand at gmail.com>
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" <
> psm-1857 at googlegroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:35 PM
> > Subject: [Leica] Xi'an
> >
> >
> >> The next stop was Xi'an, the home of the Terracotta Army. The Army was
> >> buried to protect the founder of the first dynasty in China. Emperor Qin
> >> (of the Qin Dynasty), near his burial mound, from enemies he might
> >> encounter in his afterlife around 210 BC. The figures are 10-15% larger
> >> than life size, as befits a ghost's army, and the detail on their
> bodies is
> >> quite amazing. In due course, everybody forgot about it, until a farmer,
> >> digging a well under his lands in 1974, stumbled upon it. The walls had
> >> fallen on the army, grave robbers had stolen the weaponry, and flooding
> had
> >> ruined the figures as well, leading to a painstaking and gargantuan
> >> reconstruction task. There is enough still hidden here to keep
> >> archeologists busy for a century more, I think - there are supposed to
> be
> >> 60 pits around, full of the emperors help for the hereafter, and only
> 4-5
> >> have been dug up, fully or partially. The Emperor's necropolis has not
> been
> >> opened as yet for fear of what oxidation would do to the things inside.
> The
> >> Terracotta Army is very well documented, so here are a few shots from
> the
> >> three pits open to the public, giving an idea of what is there:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1854.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1954.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1884.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1966.jpg.html
> >>
> >> The museum and grounds are wonderfully laid out and maintained for both
> >> maximum safety for the contents, as well as ease of viewing for the
> hordes
> >> who pass by every year:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1992.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2023.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Xi'an, surprisingly has a big Muslim population, and is home to The
> Great
> >> Mosque and its lovely green grounds. Luckily, on the day we went, there
> was
> >> a funeral service going on someone important in the community, so there
> >> were quite a few people around.:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2580.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2062.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2596.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2050.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Surrounding the mosque was an enchanting covered market, selling, as
> most
> >> such markets do, utterly flimsy, cheap and useless stuff:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2617.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2622.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2635.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2565.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Everybody was zipping around the bazaar in electric vehicles, either
> bikes
> >> or tuk-tuks:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2657.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2077.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Finally, people shots to end the first day in Xian:
> >>
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2063.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2067.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2028.jpg.html
> >>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2098.jpg.html
> >>
> >> Please see LARGE
> >>
> >> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
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