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	China (2005)

Photos per year (number): 1995 (70) 2005 (89)


Morning rises on business Beijing	Busy Cantonese restaurant	Cyclists on the way to work	Worker village west of Beijing	Outskirts of a small worker village	Railway bridge	Wall painting	Coal stock for the winter	A derelict house	View towards the west of Chuandixia Village

Inside a house's courtyard	Perched house	An abandoned house	Morning rises on Chuandixia Village	The village is nested in the valley	Old village well	Carrying water to the houses	Alley in Chuandixia Village	Entrance to another hutong	Corn put out to dry

Pile of beer bottles	Charm of the village	Beauty of the roofs	Lanterns and pots	Still life of cooking objects	Small dog warming up	Closed exhibition hall	Inside the abandoned hall	Firewood	Neat layout of hutong homes

Hutong courtyards	Scenic easter end	Cultivated hills in the mountains	Picturesque village houses	Stunning setting of Chuandixia Village	Isolated temple	Inside the small temple	Expressive images	Beauty of this well preserved village	A passionate local artist

Buddha face	Inspiring constructions	A restored and inhabited hutong	Village heights seen from a courtyard	Chuandixia Village seen from the opposite hill	Front view of some homes	A final view	Typical view of western Beijing	Picking ice in the river	Ice-packed river

Admiring the ice from the river bed	Industrial outskirts of Beijing	Ceremony bell	Charms for luck outside Jietai Temple	Entering Jietai Temple	Prayers in front of a temple	Hall of the Heavenly Kings	Burning incense in front of the Hall of the Heavenly Kings	One of 4 temple guardians	One of 4 temple guardians

Another temple in the Jietai complex	Incense burner	Typical roof animals	Close-up on animal figures	Avalokitsevara Buddha	Relief in a pilar stone	Main altar temple	The main altar and Buddha	Little statue below the altar	Charming pine trees and setting of the main altar temple

Jietai Temple complex	Inside the Tanzhe Temple complex	Charms for luck	The main Tanzhe Temple	Beautiful sunset light on a small prayer hall	The sun sets on Tanzhe Temple	Guard reading the papers	Gong bells	Pagoda at Talin Temple	Charming setting for the Talin Temple pagodas

Old cannons near Marco Polo Bridge	Walkers on Marco Polo Bridge	The lions on Marco Polo Bridge are all different	Close-up on a lion	This is the bridge Marco Polo used to enter Beijing	Fortress opposite Marco Polo Bridge	Dim sum brunch	Dim sum on offer	The dim sum dishes for brunch