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Shanghai Pudong Night Skyline

November 6, 2009

Twenty-first century Shanghai’s skyline is the showpiece of the city. The modern Pudong District, with the distinctive needle and ball of the Oriental Pearl Tower and the soaring steel and concrete of the Jin Mao Tower, sits on a bend in the Huang Po RIver…

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What is So Special About This Place

March 9, 2009

David Sanger: What’s So Special About This Place?
by Eric Rudolph

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Mekong

March 8, 2009

Vientiane, Laos, on the banks of the sleepy Mekong river, is a city in the midst, a confluence of traditional Buddhist culture, bureaucratic communism and an emerging consumer marketplace of goods and ideas.

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Kashgar Shave

March 5, 2009

Unexpected scenes, like a trusting fellow getting a close shave in Kashgar market, call for quick action…

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Mandawa Castle

March 5, 2009

The doorman at Mandawa Castle Hotel, complete with red turban and white beard, took a relaxed pose, framed in the ornate doorway of the intensely fortified castle…

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Monks on Bridge

March 4, 2009

While covering the historic capital of Sukhothai with the Tourist Board of Thailand I saw a group of saffron-robed monks heading out before dawn with their begging bowls…

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Bingling Buddha

March 2, 2009

Almost 1500 years ago Buddhist monks carved the 27 meter statue of Maitreya Buddha in the sandstone walls of Bingling Grottoes…

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Gansu Shepherd

February 27, 2009

While scouting a photo tour along the Silk Road in Western China we passed this shepherd and three sheep on a country road. I asked the driver to stop, quickly set up a 300mm lens on a tripod…

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