Mustagh Ata, the “Father of Ice Mountains,” towers nearly 25,000 ft above sea level. Further north, there is no higher mountain on earth (with the exception of its twin summit, Kongur). The Kirghiz muslims called it “Hazrat-i-Musa” and believed that white camels bore Mohammed’s body to heaven by ascending its staircase slopes. It is situated [...]
The White Horse occupies a strong place in the Japanese psyche, somewhere near that of the unicorn. Perhaps that’s why the #1 Scotch Whisky in Japan is White Horse.
This reminds me of the ‘peaceful’ days when we weren’t all running around staring into our Smart Phones. in China, there was no trash because there was nothing to throw away, and no packaging either. Life was simple.
Moscow, October 1978. Any store with a line, people jumped into it first and asked what was being sold later.
I’ve just put up a new page of scans from “Old China” – that is, slides taken over 30 years ago. Here’s the link: http://www.qamera.com/places/old-china/ and here are a few photos from the “old day”…
A few short notes about scanning with the V700.
First of all, it’s a great scanner. I did the research and it’s the best flatbed scanner out there, and – according to the salesman at the Pro Photo Supply in Portland, it’s the reason why the Nikon film scanners were discontinued.
I bought it for [...]
It has to be very cold for nobody to be in the Forbidden City. It also helps if it was 30 years ago.
These folks were crowded around a window display of Japanese watches. Just normal watches.
Nanking Rd., Shanghai, 1979.
Scanned from Kodachrome 64 on an Epson V700 using Silverfast.
Continuing in my series of “old China” pictures, this one was taken in 1979 on a Sunday morning outing to the Great Wall. Suddenly our taxi coughed and sputtered. The driver simply stopped it smack dab in the middle of the highway. People came from all over not so much to help, but to gawk at the [...]
This isn’t my best picture, but it is an early one – circa 1979 or 1980. It was the first commercial billboard in Beijing – I know, because I set it up with the first-ever advertising company in China, McCann-Jardine. There were billboards before – the one before this exclaimed “We Have Friends All Over [...]
Labrang is the largest Tibetan monastery outside of Tibet proper. Located in the highlands of Xiahe, Gansu Province, just a half day’s bus ride from Lanzou.
Scanned from 35mm. Oh yea – that’s me. The one in the blue shirt.
This certainly symbolizes the western frontier of the Chinese Empire. Dunhuang, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
High contrast to reflect the subject of the photo itself.
