[Leica] Fengdu

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

Wonderful!  We went to Fengdu, too, but you got to meet more people up
close and personal than we did!  My favorites are the portraits of the
farmer and his wife and the ones of the children in school.

Tina

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Continuing on our trip down the Yangtze, after passing the Three Gorges
> (Xiling, Wu and Qutang), we came to the old city of Fengdu, where over
> 100,000 people were resettled in the aftermath of the Three Gorges Dam,
> when their villages were inundated due to the rising waters of the
> reservoir.
>
> We came to the city early morning in the gloaming:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1128.jpg.html
>
> We were to do a shore excursion in the morning, but so many tourists were
> about that there were no local guides available, and we disembarked only
> after lunch! First stop was to meet some farmers' families, both original
> inhabitants and resettled ones. I just got some portraits:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1621.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1674.jpg.html
>
> Walking on the streets and alleys of this town, card and mahjong players
> were around every corner - it seemed to be an extremely popular pastime:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1704.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1744.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1761.jpg.html
>
> We then visited a local kindergarten school - kids, as ever, were curious
> and friendly, with no inhibitions whatsoever in interacting with us:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1716.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1738.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1728.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1742.jpg.html
>
> Even on the roads, mothers and kids were everywhere:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1766.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1769.jpg.html
>
> Finally, in a vegetable market:
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141015-1753.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



-- 
Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com
tina-manley.artistwebsites.com