jrdu
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because that would mean I'm finished, ha ha.
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Scenes from China. (Warning huge file)
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jrdu
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These are the places that I go. Getting a good cup of coffee in China is a problem. In the fancy hotels and coffee shops a cup of coffee will set you back five bucks or more, and it's too strong. Some guy went around China about 20 years ago selling a kind of glass bottle way of making coffee, and it's de rigeur now everywhere. Except McDonalds. It's possible to get a good cup of coffee for about half a dollar. Sometimes I need that.
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jrdu
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It took a while, but it did a good job. Thanks for your comments, Jules.
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NicoChina
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Nice pics 
That's not so easy to get a fresh look on places you visit everyday, specially if they look too much like at home.
I'm living in Nanjing and went to Guangzhou for a short trip last summer, i think i tried that Mc Donald's
I'v got my R1 last month and i'm looking forward to take it in some trips around.
Did u try it in some less modern places? I do feel that it's not always easy to be discreet with my foreigner face and big camera in hand
here are a few of my own chinese pics (the Nanjing december one are R1's), sorry for the small size and poor quality.. msn space being what they are.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/nicoenchine
c ya and if you ever come around here let me know
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That's not so easy to get a fresh look on places you visit everyday, specially if they look too much like at home.
I'm living in Nanjing and went to Guangzhou for a short trip last summer, i think i tried that Mc Donald's
I'v got my R1 last month and i'm looking forward to take it in some trips around.Did u try it in some less modern places? I do feel that it's not always easy to be discreet with my foreigner face and big camera in hand
here are a few of my own chinese pics (the Nanjing december one are R1's), sorry for the small size and poor quality.. msn space being what they are.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/nicoenchine
c ya and if you ever come around here let me know
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French living in China,
Sony R1
Joe Louvar
Senior Member
I like the street shot you named "Christmas Tree" in your 2005-12 NanJing album.Nice pics
That's not so easy to get a fresh look on places you visit
everyday, specially if they look too much like at home.
I'm living in Nanjing and went to Guangzhou for a short trip last
summer, i think i tried that Mc Donald's
month and i'm looking forward to take it in some trips around.
Did u try it in some less modern places? I do feel that it's not
always easy to be discreet with my foreigner face and big camera in
hand
here are a few of my own chinese pics (the Nanjing december one are
R1's), sorry for the small size and poor quality.. msn space being
what they are.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/nicoenchine
c ya and if you ever come around here let me know
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French living in China,
Sony R1
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markjmaclean
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I also have a foreign face - living in Thailand. This is where the free angle viewfinder comes in amazingly useful. I did a lot of shots recently from waist level - no one really notices (especially if, like me, you can develop a puzzled expression to put on your face and pretend like you're fiddling with buttons. Works a treat - the subjects usually have no idea and carry n acting naturally. Just make sure you turn the AF lamp off first!!!
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jrdu
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Boy, you have been around.
When I was new in China, I saw a very cool old gentleman with very long hair and long beard, lying on the sidewalk surrounded by his earthly possessions, smoking and singing to himself. I just loved him from the first moment I clapped eyes on him.
I took out my camera to get a shot, looked down at it a moment, then when I looked back up a handsome, well dressed, middle aged lady had interposed herself between me and my shot. I didn't understand so I moved to get a different angle, but she pointedly stood between me and the old man again. So I decided to take a picture of that, but she got very agitated. She pulled out her cell-phone, and mimed to me that she was going to call the police.
I don't want any trouble with the police in China, so I moved along. Then I got scared and I erased the shots I'd taken, because I'm easy to find and I really don't want any trouble.
What I learned from that experience is that modern Chinese people are sensitive to foreigners searching for defects in their culture, so I have been shy, since then, to take picks in the old part of any town. Let the Chinese people take those pics.
Really, though, I love the simple people. If I could learn to speak Chinese, I would love to be able to talk to them. I'm not trying to put China down by taking those photos, but trying to express our common humanity. But I don't have the language to explain that to middle class people who don't understand. So I don't take them.
John Dunn
When I was new in China, I saw a very cool old gentleman with very long hair and long beard, lying on the sidewalk surrounded by his earthly possessions, smoking and singing to himself. I just loved him from the first moment I clapped eyes on him.
I took out my camera to get a shot, looked down at it a moment, then when I looked back up a handsome, well dressed, middle aged lady had interposed herself between me and my shot. I didn't understand so I moved to get a different angle, but she pointedly stood between me and the old man again. So I decided to take a picture of that, but she got very agitated. She pulled out her cell-phone, and mimed to me that she was going to call the police.
I don't want any trouble with the police in China, so I moved along. Then I got scared and I erased the shots I'd taken, because I'm easy to find and I really don't want any trouble.
What I learned from that experience is that modern Chinese people are sensitive to foreigners searching for defects in their culture, so I have been shy, since then, to take picks in the old part of any town. Let the Chinese people take those pics.
Really, though, I love the simple people. If I could learn to speak Chinese, I would love to be able to talk to them. I'm not trying to put China down by taking those photos, but trying to express our common humanity. But I don't have the language to explain that to middle class people who don't understand. So I don't take them.
John Dunn
NicoChina
Leading Member
yes, i came to the same conclusion about the screen
i took the picture in the subway without the people realizing that i was taking it (that is 2m away from people basically just sitting and doing nothing), i had plenty of time to frame and focus... as long as you don't put you body right in their direction and don't show that there is a screen on top they have nearly no way to guess that you are taking pictures.
the problem is when u just reach a place and people stare at you like if you were made of banknotes... there is nothing you can do with any camera - big or small- in these cases but a bigger one surely doesn't help.
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French living in China,
Sony R1
i took the picture in the subway without the people realizing that i was taking it (that is 2m away from people basically just sitting and doing nothing), i had plenty of time to frame and focus... as long as you don't put you body right in their direction and don't show that there is a screen on top they have nearly no way to guess that you are taking pictures.
the problem is when u just reach a place and people stare at you like if you were made of banknotes... there is nothing you can do with any camera - big or small- in these cases but a bigger one surely doesn't help.
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French living in China,
Sony R1
NicoChina
Leading Member
yes, same here.
basically if someone says no or ask for money or anything, there is no point in insisting. But if some crazy yelling people that has nothing to do with the story comes in the way, i don't know... maybe just smile, give some "mei wenti" and walk around the block and come back later
I do always feel a bit uncomfortable taking pics of poverty and would surely feel a bit strange if some chinese tourists went to my hometown and seemed to focus on taking pics of homelesses.
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French living in China,
Sony R1
basically if someone says no or ask for money or anything, there is no point in insisting. But if some crazy yelling people that has nothing to do with the story comes in the way, i don't know... maybe just smile, give some "mei wenti" and walk around the block and come back later
I do always feel a bit uncomfortable taking pics of poverty and would surely feel a bit strange if some chinese tourists went to my hometown and seemed to focus on taking pics of homelesses.
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French living in China,
Sony R1
Joe Louvar
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We have poor sections in CA USA too - I'll shoot some shots after the rain is gone.
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jrdu
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breathtaking in that are an unbelievable number of different kinds of Chinese food,
breathtaking in that so many of those varieties are outstandingly beautiful and tasty,
and breathtaking in that after seven years of living here, I'm a little fat and I puff heavily for a long time after I climb the six floors to my apartment.
John Dunn
breathtaking in that so many of those varieties are outstandingly beautiful and tasty,
and breathtaking in that after seven years of living here, I'm a little fat and I puff heavily for a long time after I climb the six floors to my apartment.
John Dunn
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