Photographer's Note
These young and attractive ladies are friends on holiday visiting Lijiang, China. Their cell phones are their life line to all who they know and also a source for photos and memories of them and between them. Lijiang is a city of romance. It is a place to get away from the big city life that surrounds most of China. Here there is fresh air, little noice, and of course pretty girls (or handsome boys).
These girls are the modern China while around them is a China that is centuries past. Lijiang is a city that has been designed to replicate China from the 15th and 16th centuries. Located in far western China it is perched at the steps of the high mountains that eventually lead to the mysterious world of Tibet.
People come from all across China and stay is small Inns that room about 5-7 guest groups, couples, or friends together ... as with these girls. All kinds of shops aline the streets that wind throughout the town each unique, many selling teas or art or local crafts. From spring to fall it is a town alive with people. Winter, though very beautiful, locks the town in and people tend to hibernate awaiting an early spring.
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casperduppy
(1804) 2008-09-13 18:36
Hi David,
Fantastic capture here of the interaction between these ladies, as well as the male onlooker in the background. And some very interesting body language! I wonder what it was that was being shown on that mobile phone... The faces suggest happiness and pleasure, shock, intrigue, disgust and more! Perfect timing, and well presented.
Regards, Casper
Photo Information
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Copyright: David Reed Thomas (drt100)
(4038)
- Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2008-05-02
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Olympus E-410, Olympus 14 - 42 mm Digital
- Exposure: f/6.3, 1/320 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Theme(s): Lijiang China, People of China [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2008-09-13 18:26