Nanjing, China

PhotoDavid78 · November 25, 2013

These are shots from my wife's hometown Nanjing, located in Jiangsu Province 2 hours from Shanghai. The word Nanjing means "Southern Capital" as opposed to Beijing which means "Northern Capital". Nanjing was the capital of China until the Ming Dynasty moved it to Beijing.

This is from December 2010
Questions, Comments, and Critiques welcome

EphTwoEight · November 25, 2013

Cool shots! And that one of the window would look awesome on a metallic print!! One of them shots you could stare at all day!

swintonphoto · November 25, 2013

I love the first image and the image of the window. Are those the real colors in the window image? Very rich. The compositions on the first image and the window image are fabulous.

PhotoDavid78 · November 25, 2013

Thanks, the window is an HDR image and an interesting fact about it is this is the house my wife grew up in. Her father and four brothers built the house from brick and concrete. Her grandfather built the two chairs in front of the window.

EphTwoEight · November 25, 2013

PhotoDavid78 wrote: »

Thanks, the window is an HDR image and an interesting fact about it is this is the house my wife grew up in. Her father and four brothers built the house from brick and concrete. Her grandfather built the two chairs in front of the window.

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Definitely print it then!

lifeinfocus · November 26, 2013

Some nice shots. Thanks for posting.

Hmm. I studied some Mandarin Chinese a long time ago and I thought I remembered "jing" to mean "city". Looked it up and it means "capital". Cool.

In Wade Giles pronunciation: Nan - south, Pei - north (but pronounced BEI) , hsi - west pronounced "she" and tung (pronounced "dung") - east.

Forgive me if this is not correct, because it has been a long time. I recall repeating - bei, nan, dung, shi - north, south, east, west. Dunghsi is "thing" in Mandarin Chinese, at least that is what I recall.

Phil

PhotoDavid78 · November 26, 2013

lifeinfocus wrote: »

Some nice shots. Thanks for posting.

Hmm. I studied some Mandarin Chinese a long time ago and I thought I remembered "jing" to mean "city". Looked it up and it means "capital". Cool.

In Wade Giles pronunciation: Nan - south, Pei - north (but pronounced BEI) , hsi - west pronounced "she" and tung (pronounced "dung") - east.

Forgive me if this is not correct, because it has been a long time. I recall repeating - bei, nan, dung, shi - north, south, east, west. Dunghsi is "thing" in Mandarin Chinese, at least that is what I recall.

Phil

I know dung bei people are people from the north east of china. I'll have to ask my wife about the others

PhotoDavid78 · December 1, 2013

To read more about my journey to Nanjing please read my latest blog post:

http://www.davidweissphotos.com/Nanjingjourney

PhotoDavid78 · December 1, 2013

lifeinfocus wrote: »

Some nice shots. Thanks for posting.

Hmm. I studied some Mandarin Chinese a long time ago and I thought I remembered "jing" to mean "city". Looked it up and it means "capital". Cool.

In Wade Giles pronunciation: Nan - south, Pei - north (but pronounced BEI) , hsi - west pronounced "she" and tung (pronounced "dung") - east.

Forgive me if this is not correct, because it has been a long time. I recall repeating - bei, nan, dung, shi - north, south, east, west. Dunghsi is "thing" in Mandarin Chinese, at least that is what I recall.

Phil

You are correct about your directions!