I took this in one of Beijing’s hutongs, They are sort of alleys or backstreets of modern day Beijing. In my experience not too many foreigners seem to be interested in them, I personally loved spending my time there. Some are usually empty and residential but some are full with different activities, a lot of which include delicious food. As usual, click on the photo to enlarge and press like 🙂
I’m going to stick to my photos from Beijing for now. There is a bunch of shots that I like and would like to share. I shot this man getting a haircut on my way back to the hostel.
Most of the time in China I travelled alone. With the language barrier camera provides a way to connect with locals at least in some minor way. An odd smile in my direction is always appreciated.
I had a friend visiting over the weekend. In a matter of days she’ll be moving to China which got us talking about my time there. It brought up a lot of memories and details which seemed lost somewhere in the back of my brain. Naturally, I grabbed my old hard drive to explore the hundreds of pictures left untouched since the trip. I barely made it through a dozen when I stopped on this one. This is from my first day in Beijing. There’s nothing like the first impression a place can make on you. These don’t always hold but they always seem to make their mark. After having spent weeks in the gobi desert that whole day in Beijing felt like an overdose of colours under a dirty and polluted sky. A little bit like this photo.
This man looked like he’s traversed this street many times over, bored, uninterested by what it had to show.
In large cities in China you can come across people transporting lots of different things. What’s striking is not only what is being carried but by what means. Whether it’s a fridge on a bicycle or a painfully heavy load of who knows what, it had never ceased to amaze me.
