Trip to China

Bob Greschke · Sep 24, 2002

Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well. It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

11290 · Sep 24, 2002

Great site and great pictures. Thanks for posting.

fsun62405 · Sep 24, 2002

Great pictures and experiences you bought back with you.
I wish I have your job, and your camera!

Lawrence

Bob Greschke said:
Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

LarryRz · Sep 25, 2002

Bob,

Very nice photo essay. I've been to China twice (we adopted two girls there) but never had the chance to actually get out in the scenic countryside.

Like you I found the people to be very friendly.

Thanks for the great photos.

Uncle Lar

roumen · Sep 25, 2002

Bob,
Thanks for sharing this excellent gallery and essay!
Greetings,
Roumen
http://www.pbase.com/roumen

Bob Greschke said:
Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

Yang · Sep 25, 2002

Thank you so much for your highly interesting photos from my native country and your great efforts in documenting your trip.

Some of the pictures are typical photos of well-known travel destinations by the western tourists, but some scenes are even new for me as a Chinese. You would have achieved even better results if you had a better camera (more powerful zoom) with you. I just noticed the blue of the sky in your photos often looked a bit fake.

Particularly interesting for me as a former seismologist (got my Ph.D. in theoretical geophysics with prof. G. Mueller in Uni. Frankfurt many years ago) are photos of your working scenes.

Regards,
Yang

Bob Greschke said:
Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

charles92088 · Sep 25, 2002

Hi,Bob.

Interesting picessay. To me somewhat a different facet of China(actually i meant the places where u had been).

I sugg you come more often to China and im sure you will have more different feeling than this time.
Good job n nice shots!
Rgds
Charles YU
Qingdao,China

Bob Greschke said:
Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

Bob Greschke · Sep 25, 2002

Thanks. I think there is going to be a project in Afganistan next year. Interested??

Actually, I may be the only one at work stupid enough to volunteer to go.

Bob

fsun said:
Lawrence

Bob Greschke said:

Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

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Bob Greschke · Sep 25, 2002

Thanks!

The people in the cities were pretty nice, probably because they knew I was a foreigner, but the country folks were something else.

Bob

LarryRz said:
Bob,

Very nice photo essay. I've been to China twice (we adopted two
girls there) but never had the chance to actually get out in the
scenic countryside.

Like you I found the people to be very friendly.

Thanks for the great photos.

Uncle Lar

Bob Greschke · Sep 25, 2002

Yang said:
Thank you so much for your highly interesting photos from my native
country and your great efforts in documenting your trip.

No problem. It was a really interesting trip.

Member said:
Some of the pictures are typical photos of well-known travel
destinations by the western tourists, but some scenes are even new
for me as a Chinese. You would have achieved even better results if
you had a better camera (more powerful zoom) with you.

There were several times I wished I had my old Nikon stuff. I guess my days of 'big glass' will return when the D-SLR prices come down a bit more.

Member said:
I just
noticed the blue of the sky in your photos often looked a bit fake.

The skys were actually mostly dark blue, I guess because of the elevation of the whole area being kind of high. I had to shoot a lot of pictures through the windshield of the truck we were in, and in trying to get the color of the dirt close to the right color the sky gets off a bit.

Member said:
Particularly interesting for me as a former seismologist (got my
Ph.D. in theoretical geophysics with prof. G. Mueller in Uni.
Frankfurt many years ago) are photos of your working scenes.

Wow, cool. You sould look at my other project pages. They are just up a level from the China trip. Some of them are more work and less play.

Bob

Member said:
Bob Greschke said:

Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

Click to expand...

Bob Greschke · Sep 25, 2002

charles YU said:
Hi,Bob.
Interesting picessay. To me somewhat a different facet of
China(actually i meant the places where u had been).

As you go west in China it seems to get more a little more wild like the western part of the U.S.

charles92088 said:
I sugg you come more often to China and im sure you will have more
different feeling than this time.

We had three projects in China this year. There may be more there next year.

charles92088 said:
Good job n nice shots!

Thanks!

Bob Greschke · Sep 25, 2002

11290 said:
Great site and great pictures. Thanks for posting.

Thanks!

Bob

ron mcmillan · Sep 26, 2002

Hi Bob,

I really enjoyed your site -- and was very impressed by the photographs. I haven't been to Qinghai Province, but I have spent a lot of time in China, and your photographs brought back a lot of very colourful memories.

ron

p.s. interesting, too, that the new camera has a time travel feature, allowing you to transpose yourself to a balcony of the Beijing hotel in early June 1989, to get that shot of the young man and the tanks.......though it does look very like press shots from the time ;-)

xit · Sep 26, 2002

I got S200 too but I jut shoot 12XX pics within 4 months.
I travel quite a lot and expect to visit China sometime.

Please visit my link (Sorry that words is in Thai)
(This is old city of Thailand)
http://www.pantip.com/cafe/gallery/topic/G1655727/G1655727.html
(This is Wat Jang(Tample of the sun, it is in the palace)
http://www.pantip.com/cafe/gallery/topic/G1711931/G1711931.html
(This is Bang-Pa-In Palace)
http://www.pantip.com/cafe/gallery/topic/G1756789/G1756789.html

Enjoy.

Bob Greschke said:
Took 3800 pictures with my S200 in a little over three weeks in
July. Turned off the AiAF, turned on the vivid, worked real well.
It's a trooper just like my S100 was, which I showed no mercy.

Next stop Antarctica!

http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/~bob/passcal/china/index.htm

Bob

herman wilkens · Sep 26, 2002

Nice pictures you took!!

Do you made some photo's of cows (the animals). I'm starting a database of pictures of cows all over the world.
My website: http://www.wilkens.tk
e-mail [email protected]
--
HW

annie118161 · Sep 26, 2002

terrific photos and i enjoyed your commentary as well. thanks for sharing! looking forward to the antarctica pics

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Bob Greschke · Sep 26, 2002

ron mcmillan said:
Hi Bob,

I really enjoyed your site -- and was very impressed by the
photographs. I haven't been to Qinghai Province, but I have spent a
lot of time in China, and your photographs brought back a lot of
very colourful memories.

ron

Thanks!

ron mcmillan said:
p.s. interesting, too, that the new camera has a time travel
feature, allowing you to transpose yourself to a balcony of the
Beijing hotel in early June 1989, to get that shot of the young man
and the tanks.......though it does look very like press shots from
the time ;-)

No one was more surprised than I was to find out about that hidden Ultra Long Exposure feature.

I was going to try and find the exact spot where that student was standing when that picture was taken, but I forgot to take a copy of that picture that shows more of the surroundings! Stupid stupid stupid.

Bob

Bob Greschke · Sep 26, 2002

I didn't get any pictures of the small cows that I mentioned in the web pages, but I did get some pictures of some cow-like animals. I think the first two are of Tibetian yaks. The third picture is of a carabao (pronounced care-ah-bow -- like "take a bow for the audience") from the Philippines. I think they are a form of water buffalo.

Bob

herman wilkens said:
Nice pictures you took!!
Do you made some photo's of cows (the animals). I'm starting a
database of pictures of cows all over the world.
My website: http://www.wilkens.tk
e-mail [email protected]
--
HW

Bob Greschke · Sep 26, 2002

Thanks! I'm just afraid of getting my tonge frozen to my S200.

Bob

hopia said:
terrific photos and i enjoyed your commentary as well. thanks for
sharing! looking forward to the antarctica pics .

ganjian · Sep 27, 2002

You did a great job!Thanks for your photos.
I am in Beijing. You show a real China to us.
I have come to many place in your photos.
S200 is a good dc I long for.

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