My journeys across China

Something I did a lot on my trip to Beijing was making IG stories, and some of them were good enough and I did not want them to be lost in 24 hours.

I found this group of girls dancing, with these spectacular traditional dresses, was something very fast, barely had time to take out my camera, within a few minutes they had packed and left, with no idea what it was.

Amidst the temples and hutongs is the modern Beijing, the great architecture, the skyscrapers, the entire highway system, high technology and fashion, what truly makes it a world-class city, it is what I enjoy the most and where I spend most of my time.

I arrived in Beijing without plans, however I always had in mind that I would like go back to some places that had been my favorites, among them temples and others that had escaped me.

The first thing I did was go back to the Hutongs, walk among the streets, the gray brick buildings, the traditional roofs, the mix between the historic Beijing and the modern Beijing.

Most of my time in China spend it on Beijing, has been one of the best experiences in my life, a dream come true.

A great place of crafts and antiques, where you can get from a giant statue of buddha till a tiny bamboo cage for your lucky cricket.

This was a great opportunity to try out my new camera and spend an afternoon in peace and harmony with all around this very special temple.

In the Great Wall also I took pictures with my analog camera, few but really was not much to see.

Here also some photos I took with my analog camera in The Forbidden City, pretty colors of a beautiful day.

Of course the Great Wall it is an impressive construction but it was not at all that big as I imagined.

One afternoon in one of my visits to the Hutongs I decided get by Shichahai, I took the road for the Qianhai Lake which led me directly to Nanluoguxiang.

The Forbidden City It was one of the best places I’ve been in China and I should not have waited so long to visit it.

Was the China’s National Day, and could not be better day to visit the Tiananmen Square.

I was not sure whether to publish these pictures for poor quality, the rolls I took in Xi’an have been the dirtiest and scratches that have had.

The City Wall of Xi’an is one of the oldest and best preserved city walls across China

In this second part I continue telling my adventures in what would be my favorite part of the city, the Muslim Quarter of Xi’an.

Following the trail of the food I find another world, as the entrance to another city, one with a delicious smell.

It was not until I be there that understood why this is considered the most important archaeological discovery of the twentieth century, something I’ll remember all my life.

I never expected that this would be one of the cities that I most would enjoy on my journey through China.

Hong Kong is a paradise for analog photography, is a city where the film is as common as digital, and I love Hong Kong as seen in film

Sham Shui Po 深水埗, is a working class area, famous for its electronics market second hand a delight to photograph, Hong Kong at its best.

Sham Shui Po 深水埗, is a working class area, famous for its electronics market second hand a delight to photograph, Hong Kong at its best.

I sit down to contemplate the rich cultural diversity of Hong Kong, the ultimate cosmopolitan asian city

The city is vibrant, chaotic, dirty, noisy, saturated of people, there are shops above shops, large malls between street food vendors, everything catch my attention, everything looks delicious.

This is second part of my photos on film that I made in Shanghai, most were taken in Yu Garden and its surroundings.

Here I give you the first part of the best that came out of this batch of rolls I made in Shanghai, some despite all get an interesting look.

When I finally enter the garden was an immediate change of scenery, It was a quiet afternoon walking the different scenarios of the complex.

While I’m fascinated by the grandeur of Shanghai, my favorite part was walking through the small streets, watch its people ad get more involved.

I could not help but feel out of place here, but I really liked the feeling of having gone and returned by train to the future I imagined as a child.

Now I’m much lighter with my Huawei P7, has a great camera, and next to VSCO Cam are the perfect combination, here’s the first part of my walks in Shanghai.

It is already well into the autumn, the morning was a bit cold and rainy, perhaps an omen what was coming, the day I spend it in the People’s Square.

The Jing’an Temple 静安 寺 is one of the most famous buddhist temples in Shanghai, it become my everyday must stop and defined my days in Shanghai.

This third roll I took it on my journey through the Lama Temple, Confucius Temple and the Imperial College of Beijing, a walk around the old Beijing.

The second roll I took was in the Temple of Heaven, unfortunately my Pentax K1000 it stopped working the light meter, so I had to improvise.

To me China looks better on film, and here the first photos that I will be publishing, starting with the Hutongs, one of my favorite parts of Beijing.

My visit to the Temple of Confucius 北京孔廟 in Beijing 北京

My visit to the Lama Temple 雍和宫 in Beijing 北京

My visit to the Temple of Heaven天壇 in Beijing 北京.

My first experience alone in Beijing 北京 and my visit to the Temple of Heaven 天壇