10/7/15

248 / museum




Out past Xian, last year in China.. sorry, can't remember 
where, but a good museum






oddly, people had left money at this group
of sculptures






some lovely pieces, or were they copies?






the real deal, I'd say






am thinking these were from burial sites, along the Silk Road,
could they be Scythian? The dry air & sand kept some artifacts
in amazingly good condition, I recall from reading
 all Sir Aurel Stein's books.






10/5/15

247 / edits




Was checking some camera cards, & saw again how I edit
differently at different times:
here are more from my Silk Road trip last year
above is near the end of the Wall






getting into the desert areas






& one of the great very old trees in
the garden of the Forbidden palace
in Beijing



10/1/15

246 / distant




Find it strange that the moon can look so much larger
with the camera zoom,






while the fluke of a whale doesn't -
even though its closer, with the zoom at full stretch
- its always a thrill to see them, they are heading south again






this was a section of the arc of a sunset rainbow
all on the same evening