[Leica] The Great Wall of China

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nathan, Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
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> I love the last two with their subtle tones.
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> On 24 Nov 2014, at 08:18, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > On our way, we visited a cloisonne factory on the outskirts of Beijing,
> and
> > had a tour of the place:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2828.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2821.jpg.html
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> > 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:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2415.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2424.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2869.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2890.jpg.html
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> > People on the wall:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2431.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2447.jpg.html
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> > Two studies of a section of the wall - one a wider view than the other,
> and
> > with human content as well:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2884.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141020-2456.jpg.html
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> > Please see LARGE
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> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
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