Posts by Chris Waugh
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Dammit… missed the edit window.
Girl in a bubble 2.
And 3.
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Girl in a bubble.
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Ok, sneaking in a little more playtime…
All I did to the sunflower was hit the B&W button.
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3 variations on the same photo.
#1 Only what I got from Picasa.
#2 Irfan View the first.
#3 Irfan View the second.
I'm not sure which one I prefer.... Still trying to figure things out, but I'm being told to hurry up, so will try again later.
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I thought I’d have a bit more serious play, and it just so happened that the sun rising over the next building seemed to lend itself to a little amateur gothicism….
Original for reference’s sake.
I used Picasa to convert to black and white because Picasa is nice and user-friendly…. good for rank amateurs like me, in other words. But somebody around here recommended Irfan View, and while I’m finding it hard to learn, it does seem to have a bit more functionality. Used Irfan View to try some of the ideas suggested in this thread. I’ve got a lot more learning and practicing to do, but it’s a start.
And one with a bit of a blue tint, purely from Picasa.
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There’s a moon in there… and a CCTV* camera… and an amazingly huge clue as to which corner of Beijing I live in for those who read Chinese.
And just for the apocalypse of it... red moon.
*but not China Central Television
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to "chris",
the National Centre for Performing Arts in the middle ground, but what’s happening up close, at a first glance it was yacht masts, then windcatchers, very mysterious.
Actually, neither. The Egg-looking thing is the Olympic Badminton Gymnasium, which still has its Beijing 2008 banners up, on the southeast corner of my university's campus. The yacht masty-thing is an attempt at a fancy covering of a grandstand beside a rather sad looking track and field venue. Photo taken from Teaching Building 3 while I was waiting for the students who didn't show up for class...
My only drug experiences of Yunnan were seeing a pile of bongs outside a shop in the courtyard of Kunming bus station, watching an old man take a hit from a bong in an outdoor teahouse in mid January (for the uninitiated, that's a traditional way of smoking tobacco down that way, and outdoors in mid January is magic if you've just escaped a Beijing winter) and my bus being stopped twice on the still under construction highway between Simao and Jinghong at a People's Armed Police checkpoint (again: entrance to the Golden Triangle from the Chinese side) and at the second checkpoint yelling out "Passport!" at a befuddled young Englishman who'd somehow managed to fall asleep and couldn't understand the Yunnan pronunciation of 护照 (hùzhào in standard Mandarin; fùzào according to the PAP trooper; means passport). That and some rather disappointing beer.
(oh, and bracketed notes were not for you, but for any others who may need a little more context)
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to "chris",
(ex-Amsterdam of the East contender)
So there's been a bit of a crack down, has there?
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Today dawned…. apocalyptically.
And believe me, those are both improvements on the washed-out, faded, 90 years sitting in direct sunlight watercolour painting of a Beijing sunrise I saw at 7:15am-ish.....
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to "chris",
the last one
Hmmm... simplified characters (废,电), electric scooters... Somewhere in Mainland China but I've never seen a rubbish bin with such a roof. Where? There's a licence plate on the motorbike, but I can't see the character for the province/municipality/autonomous region it's registered in.
Middle one has Chinese patterning on the cross beams, and seems to be part of a long corridor.... Long Corridor at the Summer Palace/颐和园? Dunno, been a while since I've been up that way, but I don't remember the columns being so thick. The wooden boards around the bases of the columns suggest maintenance was in progress.
