[Leica] The Great Wall of China

[Jay Burleson]

Umbrella and The Wall (very painterly) for me.

Makes me want to go put "The Wall" on the stereo & crank it up!

Jay

On 11/23/2014 11:18 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> So I come to the last day of our trip, with a visit to the Mu Tian Yu
> section of Great Wall of China which is 70 km from Beijing. It is a
> beautifully restored section of the wall running along a mountain ridge,
> and is accessed via a cable car. Why an Emperor, however paranoid, would
> build a huge defensive wall on top of a very steep mountain ridge is beyond
> me, but there it is! A last observation is that it makes sense to do the
> typical tourist circuit starting in Shanghai, and ending at Beijing,
> because the quality of  the experience of the places visited increases, and
> climaxes well in Xi'an followed by Beijing. The journey in the reverse
> direction would be an anticlimax, I feel.
>
> On our way, we visited a cloisonne factory on the outskirts of Beijing, and
> had a tour of the place:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2828.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2821.jpg.html
>
> The Great Wall of China, Mu Tian Yu Section. Even here, surprisingly, in
> the countryside, with all the greenery, there were no birds to be seen or
> heard:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2415.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2424.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2869.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2890.jpg.html
>
> People on the wall:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2431.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2447.jpg.html
>
> Two studies of a section of the wall - one a wider view than the other, and
> with human content as well:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2884.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2456.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand