China Photographs

Those old Chinese painters were not exaggerating. I had always thought their romantic depictions of...

Three Bai girls flirt at the South Gate of Dali. Bais are a prevalent minority...

The inner courtyard of a monestary complex was painted in this wild modern colors....

Lucky charms hang from the prayer beads of a Tibetian monk....

For several hours a day, this young monk will sit in this box-like seat while...

Looking upward to the ceiling panels on a newly painted Tibetian monestary. These were a...

Multiple crops of rice per year are possible in the warm, wet climate of southern...

West of Kanding, on the border with Tibet Autonomous region, I spied this riverlet from...

From a farmstead's bedroom window, I could look out into the field and see a...

A water taxi ferries a Hong Kong houseboat resident home....

In central Asia birds are kept as working pets. Birds of prey are used to...

In the old city of Li Jiang, a classic view of tiled roofs as seen...

Floating homes fill Aberdeen Harbor on the backside of Hong Kong. Residents use water taxis...

The smoke from hundreds of sticks of incense fill a courtyard in the main temple...

Along a slow moving river a farmer follows an ox to plow his rice field...

Lazy bamboo, Breath held, Crickets, crickets....

A woven bamboo basket is washed in the river....

Early morning a farmer hauls her produce to the market. In the background the pagoda...

In Wubang a village near Dali, a herbal doctor lays out his collection of Chinese...

In the town of Dali, Yi women sell wooden posts which will be used to...

I never tire of the irradescent beauty of chickens. These unlucky ones are for sell...

A variety of offerings available at Chinese markets. Many are rare in western markets....

Card players in a plaza in Dali hold Chinese style cards vertically....

A traditional moongate was part of the old walled city in Young Sho. Now encompassed...

Small boys peddle squash blossoms in a market in south China. The blossoms are edible...