[wulinka]

Hello everyone,

How is everyone??

I apologize for my long silence, didn't really have internet at home, and wasn't taking any decent pictures anyway for a while.

As planned, my significant other and I moved to China for his job now. I arrived 5 days ago, we are in a town near Nan Jing if anyone has heard of that, a 2h flight west of Shanghai. If I am not mistaken, I am now actually in a similar timezone to you guys down under, am I not?

Huai Nan is very industrial and quite provincial, even though it has around 2 million people and 3 different "Universities".

You can check out what I am doing and see some pics at

http://ulrikenews.blogs.friendster.com/c...pressions/

And today you will be the first to view this brand new picture, just now taken in a market road in Huai Nan!



I hope you are all well and happily snapping away,

Uli

[matthew]

Hi Uli, it's good to hear from you. You certainly have been moving around a lot -- it sounds like quite an adventure. Thanks for the link to your blog, too. The stories are great, and the photos are really good, too. You're making me want to travel.

[shuttertalk]

Hey Uli, long time no hear! It's really great to know that you and your partner are well - and in China too! Wow!

Please do post photos from there - I've always wanted to see more of that country. There must be photo ops a plenty too!

How are you adjusting so far?

[Toad]

Hey Uli! Great shot. Can't wait to see more from your travels.

[Wedding Shooter]

Good to hear from you again Uli and I enjoyed reading you blog.

[wulinka]

Irma made me think of posting this one for you:



It was taken at a park here in town, the Dragon Park.
It's an amusement park with some installations, but also a public space that many locals come to hang out at, walk their birds (yes they do!), play Ma-Yong or Chinese Chess, juggle, do Tai Chi.....
And some people use the park's lake for fishing, both angling and putting out nets.
This shot was taken at dusk, and I like its atmosphere a lot.

It is only one kind of impression I get of this place, that yes it is very peaceful in many ways. but also a very industrial and busy city, I'll try to post regularly. And feel free of course to visit my blog, where I make sure I post a picture every day.

Good to be back, and I see there is plenty of shuttertalking going on!

Uli

[NT73]

I like this shot. It is similar to examples of sumi-e ink painting, where you get large expanses of white paper and a few dark brush strokes.

Lovely shots in the town, which remind me of Hong Kong. (The chickens wandering about.)