Category Archives: China

Forbidden City Gate

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Forbidden City

 

B&W Mountains

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B&W Mountains

I was bored and playing with pictures of the mountains; tested out the B&W option on my camera and this resulted. I love the 3D effect Plus, I like how the small historical fort on top of the far right mountain stands out!

Dragon Boats

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Dragon Boat

 

I had the amazing opportunity to ride one of the famous dragon boats that floats across the man-made lake at the Beijing summer palace! So much fun!

Lazy Panda

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Lazy Panda

This panda was a very lazy panda. He took a little nap after eating his bamboo lunch 🙂 Great day at the Tianjin Zoo!

Oil Painting Artists (Modified)

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Men in Oil Paint

I took the original and played around with it a little bit until it came out looking like this. I actually like it better than the original since it picks up on the rainy day theme.

Ancient Culture Street–Original

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Two Men in Oil Paint

This is the original photo I took of two men on the Ancient Culture Street. They had painted themselves in black and gold and would pose for photos. It was really cool 🙂

 

 

Beijing Summer Palace

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Summer Palace

One of 2 Summer Palaces in Beijing. It is built around a HUGE man-made lake. They took the dirt from the lake and used it to build the mountains around it. Then they built the palace on the mountains. It is a truly beautiful sight!

Temple of Heavenly Peace

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Temple of Heavenly Peace
Temple of Heavenly Peace, Beijing

I was there the same day the President of Pakistan was visiting so they had it closed off for about 15 minutes. Got some great pictures while the people were kept off of it. 🙂

The Great Wall of China

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Great Wall of China

I’m back! And boy do I have loads of pictures to share!!  Here’s the first 🙂 You know all those lovely photos of the Great Wall of China where the people are standing on a long flat wall smiling happily?  They lied.

The portion of the Great Wall I climbed was neither flat nor leading to happy smiles. We literally thought we would die.  It was a steep climb hundreds (literally. . . no exaggeration) of stairs dead straight up the mountain pass. No flat places; nowhere to rest except every hundred or so steps; and the steps themselves were sometimes higher than my knees.  0_0  And then you had to go down. I died. Several times over in fact.

But Oh My, What A View!