January 26, 2006

Around Guilin. Sunrise and sunset are the photographer's friends.

About Guilin.

"Located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin is considered to be the pearl of China's thriving tourist industry on account of the natural beauty and historic treasures."
And what to see. More from Guilin
Just a short flight from Hong Kong, Guilin is one of the most popular tourist spots in China, visited by millions of people a year. The limestone hills in the region have a look almost unique in the world. The only other place with anything similar is in Vietnam, and on not nearly as large a scale.
More photos.
posted by polychrome 18 years ago
  • ...okay, i just added another to my List Of Places To Go Someday.
  • although the fourth one down makes me think of a stack of cold cuts and is making me hungry
  • Thank you for the lovely post, polychrome. Places like Guilin make my heart skip a beat. How can you not be closer to (insert name of your particular deity here) in a place like that. Even the poorest person is rich surrounded by such beauty.
  • The interesting site Talesofasia has a short bit on Guilin and the close by Yangshuo. Summary: see Guilin, but stay in Yangshuo :)
  • I"m pretty sure that the images in the first link aren't photographs, but atrists' representations, and still wonderful. We have no landscapes which look like that in the US, and they are amazing.
  • They look real enough to me. Lovely Thx.
  • Very nice pictures. But in the first link...Am I the only one who can't quite parse the anatomy of the person in the washtub?
  • These are absolutely gorgeous, Polychrome. There's nothing more beautiful than the works of man and the works of nature (or your favorite deity) coexisting in harmony.
  • Wonderful photographs in these lonks. Such an amazing area, with those fog-swallowed mountains reminding me of mushrooms thrusting from the earth. Those mountains are China. Astonishing. Unique. Thanls, polychrome!
  • I think the first link ones are real - the landscape is extraordinary, but I believe it really is like that. However, the saturation of the colour has been 'enhanced' a bit too much for me, and that does give an artificial look.
  • Plegmund - I think you're right. I suspect that there might also have been a gradient filter in there somewhere along the line (such as on the first one). I didn't mind though; it doesn't make my eyeballs bleed, unlike some of the stuff on photo.net. (also some amazing things on photo.net, but a minority need to step away from the photoshop)
  • Flongj: the woman in the bath tub is an example of what happens without the wondrous engineering of the modern bra. Her breasts are beneath her armpits by her elbows.
  • Real photos or not, I am going there.