[Leica] IMG: Chinese Chequers - historic

[Gerry Walden]

Nathan

Thanks for commenting. The air was pretty thick when i was there, and it was three days before we realised that there was a view of the mountains from our hotel room window. For the first and only time in my life I had to use lip balm because the atmosphere was drying my lips out. As I saw it there were a couple of main problems: firstly a lot of cooking was done using briquettes made of coal dust, and cars had no catalytic converters. Great place though, and I would love to go back.

Gerry

> On 15 Aug 2016, at 06:27, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
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> I suspect today you would be hard-pressed to find such a scene in Beijing—from what I understand, there are few bicycles, many more cars, and the air makes it unlikely for anyone to want to sit outside. 
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 14 Aug 2016, at 10:36, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> I took this in 1998 on a trip to Beijing with my wife. I was suing a Leica M6 with 50mm Summicron f2, and this was taken on Fuji Provia and scanned recently. I have a feeling that the guy top right was some kind of political local ‘watcher’ but that could just be my imagination. Despite this being nearly 20 years ago I never at any time felt that I was restricted in any way with what I could photograph or who I could talk to.
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>> http://archive.gwpics.com/index/G00001zr0M27_Rk4/I0000gscQb_noGRk
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>> Hope you like my historic revival.
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>> Gerry
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