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Archive for July 2019

Visiting Anhui’s Ancient Villages

Posted on July 28, 2019, 10:12 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Shanghai is China’s most populous and properous city, while Mount Huangshan is China’s most well known national park. As the country is marching towards urbanization and industrialization, traditional villages have largely disappeared or changed during the last century. Located in South Anhui province, Hongcun and Xidi are rare surviving examples of those traditional villages. Designated […]
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Cloudless in the Yellow (Huangshan) Mountains

Posted on July 21, 2019, 10:56 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
The scenery of steep peaks and ancient pine trees emerging out of mist and floating above a sea of clouds is an iconic subject in Chinese representations of the landscape. Since the Tang Dynasty around the 8th century, the inspiration for these paintings is the most famous of the Chinese mountains, Mount Huangshan, or Yellow […]
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Photographing the Bund in Shanghai

Posted on July 14, 2019, 4:00 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
It could have been difficult to know where to start in largest city in the world, with a population of 24 million. However, Shanghai has a clear focal point, called the Bund, full of iconic photographic possibilities. The Bund refers to a roughly mile-long promenade along the west side of the Huangpu River, where you […]
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Photographer’s Guide to Havasu Canyon – Now and Then

Posted on July 7, 2019, 3:42 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
The Havasupai Indian Reservation, home to the “people of the blue-green water”, is located in a side canyon of the Grand Canyon out of the way from the South Rim. The oasis with waterfalls dropping over red rock into turquoise pools is a uniquely enchanting location in North America with a Shangri-La quality reinforced by […]
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