jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
Or at least I pretended not to take them. 10 days, 2 XAs, 2 rolls of Tri-x, one backpack and helluva of traveling. I'll post them in chronological order, starting from Hong Kong, day before Year of a Goat/Sheep.
No tourist photos from southern China here
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NY_Dan
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Nice photos -- place looks bleak. Looking forward to seeing more! Curious
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
Here you go, please come back soon for more.
lynnb
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enjoying this - keep them coming! Looks like one was an XA4?
easyrider
Photo addict
I was thinking the same thing!
leicapixie
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Except for scaffolding with bamboo rods!
Even with monies in plain brown envelopes, it must be elsewhere..
Nice usage of a simple camera.
Good pix.
Even with monies in plain brown envelopes, it must be elsewhere..
Nice usage of a simple camera.
Good pix.
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
I'm happy you like it gentlemen, that will be last part from HKG, next we gonna head to Karst mountains. Lynn, both were XA rangefinders, both are now being repaired, somehow I often drop cameras with wrist straps.
OurManInTangier
An Undesirable
I've never been to China and without wishing to sound overly harsh, don't feel as if these are bringing me any closer (though in fairness, other than perhaps the threads title, why should I believe that they should.) It may very likely be the choices you've made in what images to show initially and which ones you've put together but I'm not getting any sense of either place or (your) time within any one place.
Perhaps the images you've posted around food and eating draw toward something but not enough of something as yet, for me at least.
China, to me as someone who hasn't visited, evokes all those well known ideas of ancient customs, rituals, communism in its older guise mixed with the new communist vision with its immense drive into the future. Massive building projects, new wealth, factories providing cheap goods to the rest of the world. A country that must surely provoke questions from its visitors, provide many contradictions and have so much visual splendour (of the shiny new variety, the run-down and the natural.)
Perhaps as this thread unfolds things will come together a little more, though I'm not daft and expecting a social document of modern China, just perhaps something a little more enlightening.
I also have to ask, did I read that correctly? Ten days and two rolls of film?
Perhaps the images you've posted around food and eating draw toward something but not enough of something as yet, for me at least.
China, to me as someone who hasn't visited, evokes all those well known ideas of ancient customs, rituals, communism in its older guise mixed with the new communist vision with its immense drive into the future. Massive building projects, new wealth, factories providing cheap goods to the rest of the world. A country that must surely provoke questions from its visitors, provide many contradictions and have so much visual splendour (of the shiny new variety, the run-down and the natural.)
Perhaps as this thread unfolds things will come together a little more, though I'm not daft and expecting a social document of modern China, just perhaps something a little more enlightening.
I also have to ask, did I read that correctly? Ten days and two rolls of film?
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
Well, yes I'm overthinking each frame, trying to fight with it. And it was actually full eight days, as it take bloody ages to get there.
Simon you are mostly right, but it was not my intention to show the country, nor the social problems. There are people with cameras everywhere, google street view, what remains is our own vision.
Its about a journey, moments that pushed me to take a picture and stay in my head. I hope it will be more visible when I'll finish uploading, and I'm doing it slowly for a purpose, so one can get familiar with each one and come back for more.
As promised, Yangshuo region.
Simon you are mostly right, but it was not my intention to show the country, nor the social problems. There are people with cameras everywhere, google street view, what remains is our own vision.
Its about a journey, moments that pushed me to take a picture and stay in my head. I hope it will be more visible when I'll finish uploading, and I'm doing it slowly for a purpose, so one can get familiar with each one and come back for more.
As promised, Yangshuo region.
Paulbe
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Jan--I'm enjoying the photos! A totally unexpected look at China from the inside.
Thanks for posting and keep them coming....
Paul
Thanks for posting and keep them coming....
Paul
sebastel
coarse art umbrascriptor
very typical.
but, if you turn your head, it can look very different, too.
btw, focusing on food is a natural choice, as it is still the most important part of daily life.
good work, jan.
but, if you turn your head, it can look very different, too.
btw, focusing on food is a natural choice, as it is still the most important part of daily life.
good work, jan.
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
BLKRCAT
75% Film
great XA images.
Hsg
who dares wins
In b&w all places look bleak.
I hope the OP did not go all the way to china without a digital p&s...
Going to China with 2 rolls of film... One must be really sure of one's batting average.
NY_Dan
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I like the clothesline shot...
WJJ3
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Well, yes I'm overthinking each frame, trying to fight with it. And it was actually full eight days, as it take bloody ages to get there.
Simon you are mostly right, but it was not my intention to show the country, nor the social problems. There are people with cameras everywhere, google street view, what remains is our own vision.
Its about a journey, moments that pushed me to take a picture and stay in my head. I hope it will be more visible when I'll finish uploading, and I'm doing it slowly for a purpose, so one can get familiar with each one and come back for more.
As promised, Yangshuo region.
I really like this
Solinar
Analog Preferred
PMCC
Late adopter.
Hong Kong is the Chinatown of Asia.
jbielikowski
Jan Bielikowski
gb hill
Veteran
I like seeing this part of China. Good work. How cold was it for you? I see the people are wearing long sleeves & jackets. And the branches in some of your photos are bare.
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