[Lunatique]

Here's a new Sijun Geographic.


Local arcade. Fighting games are always the most popular.










Local bicycle repair shop.




This little piece of rock is worth $10,000 USD. That's right--it's used as base for sculpting. (A relative asked me to shoot it for him.)


Typical street vendors.




It's kind of jarring to go from the streets of a developing country and then walk into a classy Japanese restaurant. This is part of the weirdness of living in a developing country--that mixture of old and new, traditional and modern.




Here, there's no concept of lanes, or right of way. This woman's lucky she didn't get runover. It happens a lot.


Tofu salesman after a day's work, returning home with empty tofu containers.


Bicycle taxi's waiting for customers.


Bicycle Taxi riders making change.


Oh, it's that weirdo with the camera. . ..

While waiting for the rain to stop, and while riding in the bicycle-taxi. These rain riders gave me nostalgia--I used to ride my moped in the rain back in the gigging days as musician.
















You see this everyday, everywhere in China. Women in short skirts riding bicycles, and they give no thought to their panties showing at all.

[sparth]

very nice photos lunatique.
brings me back my own souvenirs. went in china in 85, beijing, xian, shanghai, as well as Guangzhou.
went back in beijing at the end of 89, four months after the revolt. i perfectly remember watching the berlin wall falling, from tv in a hotel room of honk kong ....
my folks used to live in beijing, as well as me. it was written on my passport too. but i did not stay long, went back to france for my studies.

it had changed a lot already btween both periods. i cannot imagine how much china must have changed now. both on positive and negatives aspects, i suppose. still, so fascinating....

thanx mate for sharing

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[Bandados]

Really nice photos Lunatique, I like the atmosphere of the rainy images...

[Misc]

Lots of interesting photos, especially the first rain image with the girl on a bike, dunno what it is, but it reallt caught my attention, been staring at it for five minutes.

[stacy]

Hmm...No Graffiti, no lowriders with too much bass, and no crack dealers... NICE !!!!!

The girl in that last shot is gorgeous. Even without the short skirt.

In the seventh shot down, there's a Pepsi logo that (obviously) says 'Pepsi' next to it. To the right there's another Pepsi logo with something in Chinese next to it. What's the translation?

You should start a whole website with just your photos.
Looks like a potential award winner to me.

As an American in country, do the Chinese Feds give you any grief?

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Misc
"...what it is..."
What it IS, is that cute little face..... ..... you perv !!!

Oops... sorry, I thought you were refering to the SECOND bike/rain shot.
MY BAD!
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[Lunatique]

Ahahah, nononono. I just happened to not have shot the terrible stuff. The living condition here is far far far worse than the States. China is a pretty crappy country in many ways--actually, in most ways. All the negatives of a developing country you can find here.

The translation for the Pepsi stuff is just legal trademark stuff for Pepsi.

I do have a photography section at my website--have you been to my site?

I don't get any trouble here--unless I go shooting pictures of sensitive stuff. The Customs do give me hell whenever I have a package delivered from overseas though.

[Misc]

stacy: well.. I WAS refering to the second one. I think Lunaticue added a couple of pictures. But it was because of the composition and light and.. and... ok then, I'm a perv.

But so are you, talking about gorgeous girls whitout skirts!