The guardian / Der Wächter
We are back from China! Well, to be honest we're back for two weeks now, but I was so busy I didn't even finish sorting out the keepers. Nevertheless I started to postprocess at least some photographs.
This on is from Pingyao. Pingyao is a small village in Shanxi that was able to avoid the typical fate of tearing down all the old buildings, substitute them with faceless industrial type of "modern" buildings, just to realize some 10 years later that the old style was nice - ending up in demolishing the modern buildings and rebuilding the downtown area in the old style. This is the key reason that Pingyao is high on the list of must-visit-places for local tourists. There are some foreigners too, but the relation is maybe 1:50 or even less.
Due to the size of the village the city wall is not as impressive as the one in Xi'An or other places. But you can get some pretty nice insights to the village and even in some backyards. When we were there, the weather wasn't really nice with a lot of dust (or smog) in the air. But there was this single statue of a guard and I was able to position myself in a way that the sun (or whatever was able to cut through the dust) was right behind the top of his lance.
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Aufgrund der Größe des Dorfes ist die Stadtmauer nicht ganz so beeindruckend wie z.B. in Xi’An oder anderen Städten. Aber man hat einen schönen Blick auf die Stadt und die nah gelegenen Hinterhöfe. Als wir da waren war das Wetter nicht wirklich schön. Es war eine Menge Dunst (oder Smog) in der Luft. Aber da war diese eine Wächterfigur und es gelang mir mich so zu positionieren, dass die Sonne (oder halt das was es schaffte sich durch den Dunst zu kämpfen) direkt hinter der Spitze der Lanze war.
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