Plants and animals in Hu Nan

Below are a few photos from my trip to Hu Nan last Oct holiday.

As the name suggests this album focuses on plants and animals.  Most of these were taken while out walking in the mountains of Hu Nan.  It is a beautiful land with amazing landscapes and plenty of wildlife.  Ok, so most are bugs, but hey that's wildlife in China!  I get excited when I see a worm in Beijing.  Unless it's flies or mosquitoes we just don't get much animal life around here!  

Enjoy 

Working in China 1

Below are some photos of work being done Chinese style.  It is often labor intensive, not so efficient and back breaking at most times.
I admire the work ethic but sometimes think there has got to be an easier way!

All of these but one were taken in Hu Nan during the harvesting of rice.  It was interesting to see how much labor goes into gathering all that rice.  Now I see why the Chinese say it is a sin to waste even one grain of rice.  A lot of labor is involved in getting it from the field to the table.

the photos of the construction workers were taken while we sat in traffic for over two hours on this little mountain road.  They stayed in the car while I walked clear across the mountain to take photos.  I didn't take my zoom lenses which I am still kicking myself for.

Drying rice.  He would rake it every few minutes to make sure it dried in the sun 

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I love the ingenuity but surely two people working together would be better than one person holding the board as  the other slides the bricks down!  Still they were good sports for letting me take their photo (taken in Beijing) 

Making pulled ginger candy the old fashioned way, on a hook with a piece of wood to knead and twist  it

Ginger candy

Climbing a tree to attached a rope before they cut it down,  it isn't a security harness! 

Making sure EVERY grain of rice is collected 

Moving the rice into a pile 

Collecting rice in baskets 

A lot of dirt, a little wheel barrow 

Ri Tan Park in the early AM

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 These photos were taken at Ri Tan park, located in the center of Beijing near the Embassy District. They were taken around 6:00 am Nov. 27th.  It was cold and very windy, the wind is apparent in a few of the photos.

Moon Over Pagoda  Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm f 3.2   2 sec

 

Pagoda moon  Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm f 3.2   10 sec

Beijing Waking up  Cannon 550D, 55-250 mm f11   30 sec 

Good morning moon  Cannon 550D, 55-250 mm f32  1/5sec

History fades to black Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm f20   20 sec

Moon over pagoda  Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm  f20  6sec

The power of the moon  Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm  f3.2  30 sec

Windy pagoda   Cannon 550D, 16-35 mm  f3.2   10 sec