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Silk Road: Ürümqi


Silk Road: Ürümqi
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Copyright: Dietrich Meyer (meyerd) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 97 W: 15 N: 608] (1490)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-31
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Olympus SP500UZ
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2008-04-06 1:45
Viewed: 298
Points: 2
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Silkroad travels: Ürümqi

This is one of several mosques in Ürümqi (I put the mark of "View: map" right at it). In 1949, 90% of the inhabitants were Uighurs and Islam was the religion that had come with the Silk Road from the West. Xinjiang province was occupied by the Soviet Union. At that time the governement of China decided to send in many Han Chinese as workers and as settlers. They built the many great works, highways, railways, channels, river dams, mines, cities, military places. Today Han Chinese dominate in numbers, in wealth and they occupy many key posts. They brought with them not only their work ethic and lifestyle but also the age-old Chinese culture and traditions. Taken all together this is a source of a simmering ethnic conflict not visible to the simple traveller like me. The same process leads to the same kind of conflicts elsewhere in the world. As an extreme example of potential conflict building I recall the road and tunnel construction company engaged in Tajikistan to improve the Anzob pass: all construction vehicles had licence plates from Bejing, many hundred workers and engineers were Han Chinese, Tajiks were just watching on the sideline.
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To t0bs: Mosque needed improvementmeyerd 1 04-06 04:37
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Hi Dietrich
I think you need much improvement with your composition in this picture. The cable and the trees distract so much the view of the mosque. I would also love to have the man on the bottom-right side to be out of the view. You could crop him out or wait until he passed (which was a better option then cropping).
I did a WS for you.
Cheers
Toby

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  • Buin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 3308 W: 0 N: 6473] (22654)
  • [2008-04-08 13:10]

Hallo Dieter!
Du weißt, was ich zum Kommentar von Toby sagen möchte. Müssen denn Fotos "passend" gemacht werden!? Diese Leitung war da - naja, dann war sie eben da! Menschen müssen aus Fotos verschwinden - und kein Wort zum wirklich Gezeigten. Manchmal öden mich diese Kommentare einfach an ... So das musste jetzt raus.
Dein Kommentar ist wieder hochinteressant und zeigt, wie man "einen Fuß in die Tür bekommt". Die Moschee soll wohl möglichst hinter den 08/15-Fassaden verschwinden...
Grüße aus Bad Meinberg!
Frank

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