My Chinese National Week
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TWO or three times a year, the Chinese go on a "golden week" when just about everybody goes on holiday. It is a pretty crazy thing. In recent times, the government has tried to break up the week long holidays into smaller blocks of time. The government figures that a the old way of having an entire week off isn't such a great thing. The whole country shuts down to some extent, the travel system is brought to its knees while the lodging goes unused much of the rest of the year.
Many people on the other hand would like to have the longer period of time off. 3 day holidays don't allow much travel time. What people don't enjoy about the golden weeks is the "make up" period. There are no free days off in China. So usually people have to work on the weekends before and after the golden week. It is pretty weird.
I was able to take a week off from my job thanks to October 1st National Day, and I visited Guilin, and Hezhou. We brought along a tremendous amount of photographic equipment, some of it which we used and some of it that we didn't. Of course, the main work horses were D300 and D700. My wife brought along her D60, and we also had a D70 converted over to IR. I think in retrospect, we would have done better to bring along the D70s and leave the D60 behind. The more I use the darn thing, the more I come to hate it, mainly as it is incredibly slow, the camera will not shoot unless it is in focus, or switched to MF, and because it has no built in focusing motor, it doesn't work with my faster lenses, such as the 35f2 or the 50 f1.4. This is too bad. Between all 4 cameras I wound up with a whopping 3,000 photos to sort through.
I'll start off the national week with a few photos from the day before we left.
Many people on the other hand would like to have the longer period of time off. 3 day holidays don't allow much travel time. What people don't enjoy about the golden weeks is the "make up" period. There are no free days off in China. So usually people have to work on the weekends before and after the golden week. It is pretty weird.
I was able to take a week off from my job thanks to October 1st National Day, and I visited Guilin, and Hezhou. We brought along a tremendous amount of photographic equipment, some of it which we used and some of it that we didn't. Of course, the main work horses were D300 and D700. My wife brought along her D60, and we also had a D70 converted over to IR. I think in retrospect, we would have done better to bring along the D70s and leave the D60 behind. The more I use the darn thing, the more I come to hate it, mainly as it is incredibly slow, the camera will not shoot unless it is in focus, or switched to MF, and because it has no built in focusing motor, it doesn't work with my faster lenses, such as the 35f2 or the 50 f1.4. This is too bad. Between all 4 cameras I wound up with a whopping 3,000 photos to sort through.
I'll start off the national week with a few photos from the day before we left.
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</DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd>Two Chinese boys fight over a bag</DD></DL>We first headed to the photo district to pick up some film. I figured I'd be picking up my Nikon N80 which was left in Hezhou earlier this year, and I wanted to experiment with black and white film. So I bought every type I could find, pretty much Kodak and Ilford's entire lineup. I intend to develop all of it myself, so it will take some time to get it right.
On a side note, but related, I tried a program by the company "Alienskin" and it is called Exposure 3. The program claims to make your digital photos look just like they were taken with film. Specific films in fact. You could supposedly make your photo look like it was shot with dozens of different types of color or black and white film, ranging from Kodak Tri-X to Kodachrome. The thing I felt was that I have my own look for BW photos that I can get using Lightroom, so the BW film types didn't interest me. The color film types didn't seem bold enough, and those that did appeared to just be an improperly set whitebalance. Now, I've shot some film that looked just like that, but overall I felt the program wasn't worth $50, let alone the $250 they wanted for it. But since then, I wanted to have a look at film to examine the different types. I can't find that much color stuff here for some reason, but BW is easier to find. I ended up buying about 10 or 15 rolls.
While I went inside the store, my wife got to play with my brand new Nikon 14-24 AF-S. When I got back, there was a huge smear on the lens!:huh
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Anyway, after the photo market, with went to the dresss street to have a look and see what sort of dresses we could find. We found one or two that Susan liked. The idea was that she would have her photo taken during National Week wearing them. In the meantime, we had to take a photo or two as we were sorting out the camera gear.
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I showed up for work around 5 and learned that another teacher was sick so I'd have to cover her class instead of reading about developing my new film.:wink Too bad but I survived. Got home and packed my camera stuff carefully, checking off each lens and lovingly packing the bodies as they went into my Lowepro Stealth Reporter 650. Side note, this bag is enormous, holding some 4 speedlights, 4 bodies, and 5 or 6 lenses. But at that size, it is anything but stealthy. It is also well outside the realm of a walk around bag.
Once I took a 2 day trip to Hong Kong where I brought camera stuff but nothing else. On this trip, I just threw some clothing into the suitcase, including what I'd later discover to be a pair of pants with a huge hole int the crotch. I meant to throw the pair away, my wife thought they should be repaired. Neither of us quite followed through, so hence, I still have this pair of pants, including the hole. Not very organized, but hey, I don't mind wrinkles.
Comments etc about the photos would be greatly appreciated!:bow<DL style="WIDTH: 510px" id=attachment_978 class="wp-caption aligncenter"><DT class=wp-caption-dt> </DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd> </DD></DL>
Stay tuned, its taking me a little bit of time to edit and post the photos!
</DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd>Two Chinese boys fight over a bag</DD></DL>We first headed to the photo district to pick up some film. I figured I'd be picking up my Nikon N80 which was left in Hezhou earlier this year, and I wanted to experiment with black and white film. So I bought every type I could find, pretty much Kodak and Ilford's entire lineup. I intend to develop all of it myself, so it will take some time to get it right.On a side note, but related, I tried a program by the company "Alienskin" and it is called Exposure 3. The program claims to make your digital photos look just like they were taken with film. Specific films in fact. You could supposedly make your photo look like it was shot with dozens of different types of color or black and white film, ranging from Kodak Tri-X to Kodachrome. The thing I felt was that I have my own look for BW photos that I can get using Lightroom, so the BW film types didn't interest me. The color film types didn't seem bold enough, and those that did appeared to just be an improperly set whitebalance. Now, I've shot some film that looked just like that, but overall I felt the program wasn't worth $50, let alone the $250 they wanted for it. But since then, I wanted to have a look at film to examine the different types. I can't find that much color stuff here for some reason, but BW is easier to find. I ended up buying about 10 or 15 rolls.
While I went inside the store, my wife got to play with my brand new Nikon 14-24 AF-S. When I got back, there was a huge smear on the lens!:huh
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</DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd>Pedestrian traffic crossing over a bridge in Guangzhou, China.</DD></DL>Anyway, after the photo market, with went to the dresss street to have a look and see what sort of dresses we could find. We found one or two that Susan liked. The idea was that she would have her photo taken during National Week wearing them. In the meantime, we had to take a photo or two as we were sorting out the camera gear.
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</DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd>My Wife</DD></DL>I showed up for work around 5 and learned that another teacher was sick so I'd have to cover her class instead of reading about developing my new film.:wink Too bad but I survived. Got home and packed my camera stuff carefully, checking off each lens and lovingly packing the bodies as they went into my Lowepro Stealth Reporter 650. Side note, this bag is enormous, holding some 4 speedlights, 4 bodies, and 5 or 6 lenses. But at that size, it is anything but stealthy. It is also well outside the realm of a walk around bag.
Once I took a 2 day trip to Hong Kong where I brought camera stuff but nothing else. On this trip, I just threw some clothing into the suitcase, including what I'd later discover to be a pair of pants with a huge hole int the crotch. I meant to throw the pair away, my wife thought they should be repaired. Neither of us quite followed through, so hence, I still have this pair of pants, including the hole. Not very organized, but hey, I don't mind wrinkles.
Comments etc about the photos would be greatly appreciated!:bow<DL style="WIDTH: 510px" id=attachment_978 class="wp-caption aligncenter"><DT class=wp-caption-dt> </DT><DD class=wp-caption-dd> </DD></DL>
Stay tuned, its taking me a little bit of time to edit and post the photos!
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We left Guangzhou and flew to Guilin, which ends up being just 1 hour away. We missed out hotel pickup on account of arguing with the airlines after they lost part of our stroller but we took a cab and arrived at a comfortable hotel with a view of the river. Since we had failed to pack enough diapers, our first order of business was to buy some. My wife used to live in Guilin so we walked down to the baby store section. In Chinese cities, it is common to find all of the stores of a certain type on the same street. In Guangzhou there is an entire street full of camera shops. It is a wonderful street!
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After we picked up diapers and other things we should have brought (but let me tell you, I brought along enough memory cards and batteries to last a whole week!) we continued along and I got my first view of the famous pagodas. If you ever get to Guilin, the walk around the lake is really nice with much to see. In fact, I must mention, that perhaps my photos are not 100% supportive of my text here, but I took thousands of photos, so I'm only posting the ones that I like a lot or that. Otherwise there would just be too many of them. Hence, I don't have any super wide angle views of the lake, but just a small piece of it.
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We joined up with some family for dinner. I've never met them, and may never see them again. However, they were genuinely nice people, and less annoying than some Chinese family that Imet. I like them all of course, but some are very bossy and opinionated, and I start to feel a bit like eunich when I'm around some of them. I like to feel like a man! Dinner was also really good.
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Thanks! Off to bed now, but will try to post some more stuff tomorrow.
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Afterwards, we met up with one of Susan’s friends and then went for a walk to go meet someone. Luckily we weren’t in too much of a hurry since I ended up stopping constantly to take photos. At one point, we came across some sales guy offering a free cell phone or something. Every few minutes he’d lean forward as if to offer the prize and everyone would crush forward and their hands would shoot up! Then he’d back away, always dangling the prize just out of reach. The crowd would gradually put their hands down until the next time he held up the coveted object.
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At another point, we came across a pot mender. I was quite amazed to see this guy. Nobody fixes pots in the USA. The guy was on a bike and went past different restaurants to see if they had any old pots. When he found one, he cut out the bottom and then put a new bottom on. Unfortunately, he seemed to grow tired of the foreigner watching him, so I left a bit early. I thought the process was really cool and it reminded me of days long past in the rest of the world.
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We said goodbye to the friend and then went to the train station to take the train to Liuzhou. I really can’t say too much about Liuzhou as we went there to visit some friends. It seems like many other small cities. Huge changes and construction. The entire central “square” must have just been finished and there was still much construction going on. I can’t remember the exact statistic, but I read once that a huge majority of all tall building cranes are in China. Perhaps near 75%? You can see these everywhere in China it seems. There are two in the photo below.
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We started with some noodles for breakfast. This is actually a very common breakfast in China. Noodles form the base with some soup, and then extras such as pickled beans, some meat, peanuts, or tofu bits added as well. It is usually very cheap, costing around 50 cents at times.
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Then we went to the park. My of the traditional stuff happens in parks so if you ever do visit China, try to spend at least part of a day in the park. There you can see people dancing, singing and doing all sorts of traditional kung fu and tai chi. You can see the slappers, clappers, shakers, backward’s walkers, squatters, swingers and other exercisers as well.
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We rented a boat to drift about in the lake with. While pedal and electric boats were available, we picked a row boat, partly as it was cheaper, and of course, more head room. The downside is that it came with no oarlocks. The lake was quite pretty and since we didn’t have a roof we could go under the lower bridges and really explore the place.
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Another thing I did at that was check out a “haunted house.” I usually go inside but they are almost uniformly disappointing. Blasting screams, a few animatronics shaking and ratting their cages and maybe the floor rattles as well. This one was the best I’ve ever been in. Parts of the house were completely dark so I had to grope and feel my way along in the darkness. Then stuff would come flying out at me from all directions. The icing on the cake was towards the end when something came down from the ceiling and grabbed my neck. Very well done, better than some big chain brand haunted houses.
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We headed to the bus stationfor the 4 hour bus ride and then travelled to Hezhou where we met up with the inlaws.
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Since my wife was still tired from our late night arrival, I set off on my own for a bit of a walk. I did have a slight feeling of reservation as I would be alone in a Communist country. Would the natives take kindly to me wandering around unsupervised?
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Early on I stopped to take some pictures of a corn field when two guys burst out of a house across the street and started yelling at me to come in and have lunch with them! Their invitation was counterbalanced by a snarling dog that also came out from their house. While the men appeared quite friendly, the dog was a courage sucker and I decided to continue on my way. The dog followed. Unnerved, I deployed my tripod and continued along. The dog followed me for a couple of minutes.
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Further along I ran into some children. I figure they had never seen a foreigner up close in their entire lives. They started asking me all these questions. I could answer a few, such as where I was from. The others I couldn’t understand. We parted, and then after a minute I heard “American! American! Wait!” The kids ran around the bend and indicated they wanted their photo taken. I did and they continued to follow me. I could see some sort of building across the fields and wanted to go there. The kids parted again, but then I could hear more “American! American!” I could see them jumping up and down across the field. I took their picture again and finally they left. Chinese children who have never seen a foreigner can often be very annoying when they follow you everywhere and you can hear them pointing you out to everyone. “White ghost,” they say, “Look, there is a white ghost.” These weren’t too bad.
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The building I saw was some sort of family urn depository. I took a few shots of the outside but then headed away from the area lest I be spotted by a farmer. Photographing the inside would be a huge offense, so I didn’t go inside.
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I headed back to town and then joined my family in the market.
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We arranged a taxi the previous night, but the driver was not on the day shift, so she called up her brother in law or someone. Confucius say, “Man who drive like hell, bound to get there!” This guy was in a big hurry, drove like crap and did the usual blind corner passing. However, one feels a bit more safe in a bus than in a car. We continually asked the driver to stop passing, and he would refrain from doing so, until he came upon the next vehicle going slower than he wanted to. Despite his crazy driving and jarring “shortcut” through some small village, we did arrive at the park safe and sound.
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We set out along the paved forest path until we spotted some small falls. My brand new 14-24 was of course immediately set just inches above the rushing water. I’m not thrilled with what I got, but my tripod isn’t like some of the ones out there. My camera was upside down on the inverted center column. Splashing water was starting to pool up inside the hood. And the water looked deep. So I decided to leave the truly stunning waterfall shots to someone else.
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Later we came to another waterfall. The rocks were extremely slippery, but I managed to get a shot or two of the Mrs.
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The parks largest waterfall was further along. One of the things Chinese people like to do is to pose with the foreigner. I’m in countless photos. Tour groups, families and individuals all have approached me. (Side note: sometimes I do approach others first. I once spied a huge group of Canon shooters on a club outing posing for the self timer. I ran up behind the group, made a stupid face and held up a couple of Nikon’s like some bandito wielding AK’s. I ran away before they could check to see how the photo turned out.) Here was some father and son duo and the son wanted to pose with me. It is a bit bizarre but what the heck.
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A shot of me and the wife. Gotta say, the interval timer on the 700 is great!
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We met our driver again but apparently some sort of accident occurred after he came up the road. A bus and a car tried to defy the laws of physics. I’m really not sure what the deal was, but the traffic was shut down for at least 40 minutes and the accident vehicles still weren’t moved.
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We headed back to the in laws house for dinner.
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We had lunch and then went to a pagoda. It was very nice and was more interesting to me than an orange farm. We checked out the grounds and even went up the narrow, winding staircase to the top. Again, I’ll just let the photos speak for themselves.
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Yes, it is an awesome place. I've got just one more post to do, but I'm busy developing the 16 B/W rolls that I shot the last week or so. 2 or three of them might have some photos worth posting so I might add those. Or they might all suck. We'll see.
It is neat to see the "insiders" China, tourists never get to see this, but I can't get over how much they smoke!
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Nikon D70s
Nikon F4s
Pentax K1000
Olympus OM-10
Gitzo CF tripod/Arca Swiss ball head
Not nearly enough lenses
Thanks! I do enjoy Nat Geo. I enjoy it even more some reference to Tianamen Square gets past the censors here (or maybe they've just given up.)
Ah yes, the smoking. Its intense. I've had WOMEN show up to look at my baby, lean in close and blow some smoke in her face while telling me that my baby will catch a death of cold without socks on. (Anyone ever seen that shot of the smoking pregnant lady who claimed that the sound of jack hammers was hurting her baby? It was a lot like that.) Of course, there is the every popular photo that foreigners love to get, and that's of Chinese people sitting under a no smoking sign and just puffing away!
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Motorcycles in B&W
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Overall National Week was a lot of fun.
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Total shots Appx 3,200*
Most used lens Nikon 24-70 2.8, mounted on D700
Shots used on the blog
Appx. 65
*Note: I shot a few rolls of film with my Nikon N80 but these have not yet been developed yet. I'll post anything that is good from these rolls, but it might be a bit before that happens.
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Thanks! It was a lot of fun.
Thank you. I am generally having a great time here! Can't wait to see the film. Unfortunately, I had 16 rolls of film to develop and wasn't thinking. I didn't process them in the order I shot them in, and was just grabbing rolls here and there. I think I didn't develop the trip rolls yet! I've still got 7 more rolls to develop but I'll concentrate on the trip rolls first.