Posts by Chris Waugh
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Dunno about your fancy tripods, but taking pictures while driving a boat is a good way to get wonky photos. And [ahem] hit the rocks…. But a nice day for a wedding.
And for singing opera under a willow tree.
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Interesting light in Beijing this morning.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Sacha,
We need to find the cultural maturity to grasp the difference between being a dick and challenging dickishness.
Amen.
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Strange park, though. Called 古塔/Gǔ Tǎ/ancient pagoda after the ancient pagoda at the southern end – and there is still some debris from the temple that must’ve been there further south past the end of the pathways. But today we took a different path along the northern edge – last time we were there we didn’t go that way because there were trucks and cranes and large trees being planted. This time it was clear, and oh, look, is that a temple under construction? Hard to know, because there were no signs of any workers and abandoned construction sites are hardly unknown around these parts, although the wall did have 阿弥陀佛/Ēmítuófó/Amitabha written on it at least twice – a migrant worker trying to increase his chances of getting home next Chinese New Year? The paint wasn’t fresh, but it wasn’t terribly old, either.
And yes, there is a Buddha in there. Would’ve had a better chance of getting him visible if I’d taken my DSLR…. Oh well, Wednesday’s I have no classes…
I had been under the impression that Guanyin was all lonely among the trees. Still, the only paths leading to the base of her statue are worn in the grass among the trees by the curious and a few worshippers. The official, paved pathways go right around her, getting no closer than about 20 metres. But the gateway that had been all bricked up has had it's bricks removed.... Still, a rather hesitant spring for Buddhists in the vicinity of 王四营/Wáng Sì Yìng/Wang's Fourth Camp (or perhaps Wang Four's Camp) and 观音堂/Guānyīn Táng/Avalokitesvara (or Goddess of Mercy) Hall.
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I loved how intensely pink this flower is.
And these ones so yellow.
But this one was determined to hide.
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My wife’s Samsung, which cost about 3 times as much as my HTC, generally does a better job (she took this photo – just to make it clear).
But still, my HTC does alright (back to my point-and-hope capturing).
My wife caught a dragonfly.
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Nora inspired me to try a bit more of the up-close stuff, but at first just with my phone. Limited success – cheap Mainland-only HTC means limited tool, but it’s still fun trying to stretch the limits of what it can do.
And of course, there are limits as to how close you can get when there are fences and water involved.
So I decided to try zooming in, which I generally don't bother with, having not had much luck with it in the past. But sometimes it comes out ok.
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Interesting, but...
Banque de Commerciale Arabe
First up, he needs to work on his French grammar. And it's a fairly difficult bank to find. Which I suppose may be the point...
And now Freemasons? And the Muslim Brotherhood being a Freemason creation? And the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt having police and an army to train in the 1950s?!
Interesting but unreliable.
That said, I completely agree that there's a lot more going on than the Anglo-American media is telling us. The involvement of the House of Saud, for example, seems to me to be rather downplayed. And I may have been looking in the wrong places, but I've yet to see any article examining the Saudi-Iran proxy war side of things, let alone drawing the link between Syria and events in Bahrain.
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to "chris",
I’d like to see Mr Obama take their estimated budget for a Syrian conflict and pay the entire amount to the 1 million or so Vietnamese who are disabled or have health problems due to the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange
Yeah, but before you know it they'd have to start selling off their entire WMD inventory to pay off all the people they've hurt.
I'm certainly not disagreeing with you, though.
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to "chris",
Mr Reagan
Granada, Libya, Iran-Contra. Alright, so he bombed like a Democrat, but he was certainly no innocent.
