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tourist trap flooded!
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Copyright: cerdo tserda (amzamz)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 17 W: 11 N: 32]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/s-s-s.gif) (834) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2002-10 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2004-01-26 15:07 |
| Viewed: 1485 |
| Points: 4 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| This is a 180 degree panorama (click on picture) of the "lesser three gorges". The Daning river is a side arm of the Yangtze river. The picture shows the situation in the last few weeks before boat traffic was interrupted. The Yangtze river dam project will cause the water levels to raise. How much exactly it is here, I don't know. In the lower parts it shall be up to 170 meters higher than the original levels! I am not sure what all these sellers are now doing, where they now live and what happened to the boat tours. I am sure, the valley is back to tourism and still nice to visit. However, I would like to see recent photo evidence... |
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I hope to go there this summer and see what it's like now, I'll tell you when I come back.
This is a nice picture, it's kind of funny to see the traditional old-fashioned boats together with the hordes of tourists and the modern colorful umbrellas. There's not much to say about composition in a picture like this, you don't have very many choices, but I would like to see this shot from a slightly lower angle including more sky and not looking so much from above in the leftmost part of the picture. It would've been great if the river had continued away in the left part as it does to the right. I don't know if that's possible since you can't tell what's outside the picture :). I guess it's too late now anyway, with the dam and everything.
Jpeg has done quite a lot of damage to the large version of your photo, but I guess you had no choice. Sharpening a little less would mean that the picture would compress easier and maybe reduce the amount of jpeg-artefacts.
- joso
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 751 W: 213 N: 257]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif)
(1782) - [2004-01-26 18:38]
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Your photo has documentary value, about a place that doesn't exist now as you show it. And that's what counts here for me.
