Windswept brides
After walking around a point to the next cove we discovered ... wedding picture parties. Wedding pictures are a pretty big thing in China. You pay a company a very large sum of money and they dress you and your intended up in a dozen different outfits, drive you to shoot locations all over town, and take hundreds, if not thousands of pictures. The pictures are then displayed at your wedding, bound into books, and framed and displayed around your house. Some companies even offer a lifetime purchase, where you get a new picture taken each year on the anniversary of your wedding.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
