Someone else's Chinese Travelogues

[ellarien]

This site has some nice photos and fun commentary -- they were at the Summer Palace the day we arrived, and saw quite a bit more of it than we did, though not with much better atmospheric clarity.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I took several pictures of the "atmospheric clarity" in Hefei when we were there. You can see the sun as a brightish circle in the haze.

We picked up a book of pictures from the area, and it included one big one (a spread, I seem to recall) that just looked odd. I tracked down the oddness to the sides of buildings, where there was a bit of a brownish tint clinging to the edges. That's when it hit me that the blue sky had been Photoshopped in.

[ellarien]

We did see blue sky a couple of times in Beijing -- no photoshop involved in this one, for example:


The general rule was grey murkiness, though.