[Leica] IMG: Chinese Chequers - historic

[John Lee]

It actually Chinese chess they're playing!
-John

On Monday, August 15, 2016, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:

> Nathan
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> 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.
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> Gerry
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> > On 15 Aug 2016, at 06:27, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu
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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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> > Nathan Wajsman
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> >> On 14 Aug 2016, at 10:36, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com
> <javascript:;>> 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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