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I've put them up as a Facebook album at

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=292059&id=783247428&l=e38c5d9e38

(thanks to LNR for the instructions for how to get a link to a Facebook album that works when you're not logged in) with another copy up at http://www.fivemack.org/china2010 if you like memorable addresses or if your employer dislikes Facebook. Ask here if you want the story behind any of them.

Questions I've been asked:


  • This one is looking back from the Forbidden City towards the Photographer's Pavilion in Jingshan here
  • I don't know what the characters mean
  • I think the shiny metal is some sort of allusion to the Moon, with which the rabbit is associated
  • They're auspicious bats
  • The fee to beat the drum three times is 10元: a pound
  • It is a Tang-dynasty interpretation of a burnous
  • The material for the scenes from the life of the Buddha is inlaid polychrome jade
  • The Macao pavilion is indeed in the shape of a giant rabbit
  • The message is that the Silk Road trade was essentially between Persia and China; no territorial claim was explicitly made
  • He symbolises peace through international trade
  • A sweet, oaky Argentine white
  • He is celebrating the Canadian creative spirit
  • Unlike on Wall Street, there is no bear to go with the bull
  • I was born in the year of the snake

Date: 2010-10-28 10:45 am (UTC)
simont: A picture of me in 2016 (Default)
From: [personal profile] simont
This one is clearly a caption competition waiting to happen.

"We're going to need a bigger kitten", perhaps?

Date: 2010-10-28 01:57 pm (UTC)
lnr: Halloween 2023 (Default)
From: [personal profile] lnr
If you look at your own album there is a link at the bottom of the page which is accessible to anyone for whom Facebook isn't blocked - no account needed. That's how I link to mine and it seems to work. There are similar links on each of your own photos if you want to post just one photo.

[It only displays these to the album's owner, so only you can choose to share your photos with non-Facebook people - until of course you post the URL somewhere other people can see it in which case they could forward it to all their friends]

Date: 2010-10-28 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
Thanks for that; I hadn't noticed that link at all.

Date: 2010-10-28 04:24 pm (UTC)
ellarien: black tile dragon (dragon)
From: [personal profile] ellarien
Nice pictures! I particularly like the turtles-all-the-way-down sculpture. Beijing looks somewhat more polished than it was when I was there in 2006.

Date: 2010-10-28 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
I arrived the day after a very violent rainstorm, so the sky was beautifully clear and the weather probably about as good as it gets; I'm not sure how much of the polishing was done for the Olympics and how much is the result of rain-washed buildings under an azure sky.

Date: 2010-10-29 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com
I like your purple shirt.

And some of those are excellent photographs.

Date: 2010-10-30 11:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com
I don't know what the characters mean

Ming something:old/first? large just(straight, upright)

I don't really know what they mean either.

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