Another side of your photography With all of those wonderful portraits of yours that we are used to seeing, it is pleasing to observe that you share such talents on architectural subjects as well.
Thanks For Announcing Arba minch U are the Gratification of Announcing Arba minch as Gifted land of varites of natures the couple lakes abaya &chamo corocodial farm neche sar n/park spring water jungle that way Arba minch is Favorite destiny for tourist
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Setting = place + time Could you please add the dates for you second and third trips to Beijing.
Now I know how you got interested in the book "1421."
And now that you have given me a brief glimpse of previous unblogged trips, you must write those blogs soon.
I know that you couldn't enter one date for three timeframes, but if you blog the rest in chronological order make sure your Entry Date is the date you took the trips...keeps the blogs in order. Sorry about making such suggestions, but I found out the hard way after using the current date for trips I took long ago the blogs didn't flow chronologically which, being a logical engineer, drove me crazy! I have been trying to get Ali to change the Entry Date to Trip Date for a long time.
FOR BOB...DANCING TO MY OWN TUNE I hope you enjoyed the blog...Tiantan...a magic place. If I tell a tale, to me it is not relevant when it was...the relevance is the enjoyment & freshness of the tale at the time of telling. I have had 4 major trips to China...just knocked back a 5th...14 Provences to date...some more than once...special places to share and pivotal & unique stories to tell. I thus prefer the Geographical & Theme approach when blogging China...not the Chronological. Thus Tiantan was from 3 visits in 2002/03, 2005/06 & 2006/07. Entry Date=Trip Date does not suit me. I prefer Entry Date=Blog Date...and to dance to my own tune...like a Pied Piper leading to...?...watch this space! And the music...listen to Teng Ge in the TB World Music Forum...and be transported!
Another great blog I always enjoy your blogs Dave..I suspect its the Aussie sense of "She'll be right" and in your case, if its not right, you always seem to make it right :-)
OH WOW CINDY Thank you for your kind words...Tiantan is one of those special places in this World...I hope my photos do it justice. Fortunate are we it was not desecrated during the Cultural Revolution.
I write this mourning the destruction of tombs and threats to destroy the mud mosques in Timbuktu...I grieve for the ancient places destroyed by radical elements in the name of religion...I am devastated.
WHAT THE DEUCE? People swearing all over the comments, and I'm not invited? Fuck that! Great blog, Dave! I love Chinglish and Engrish, got several books with collections of the best and weirdest signs. Always makes me laugh. Cheers,
Jens
Oh what? I always Garn animals. Darn it. I must have offended a few while in China. Great blog Dave! I wish I had taken a photo of that sign I saw outside a cafe in one of the hutongs that said "really fucking great coffee."
MAYBE SHANE I wondered what it was for...maybe reserved for Chinese cricketers...beyond the door???? Only know that is Where the Wicket go! Not sure if for bad or good cricketers...feared it was for the former!
Great blog! I have been meaning to do a themed blog like yours myself, hope I get to it one day. This is a great example know to make one, really well written and the pictures are so recognisable :)
THANKS JOHAN I usually make sure signs are not in my photos...but every now and then I'd include one...many others I've seen. So I've started a thread in the Photography forum titled CHINGLISH...for members to post their favourites...to see if we can have a collection of pearls on Travelblog. Hope to see you log in as a member & get into it!
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Another side of your photography
With all of those wonderful portraits of yours that we are used to seeing, it is pleasing to observe that you share such talents on architectural subjects as well.