Monday, March 12, 2007

More Self Indulgent Holiday Snaps

White Lake in Mongolia - that country is the Big Sky specialist. I love this rustic setting, but I reckon it would be a better photo if those gers were on fire or something.
This is the consumer electronics department in Mongolia's poshest department store, the State Department Store - of course. What appears out of place in this shot?
It's about 3am and we're speeding through the Beijing hutongs on the way to my hostel. I'm drunk. That white thing in the lower left hand corner is the shoulder of the rickshaw driver.
That's a big heavy metal pot and a slender Chinese acrobat being held aloft by a woman with Hillary Clinton-esque legs. Hold the phone - is there a hand grasping the lip of that pot? Surely there's not MORE MASS in that already hefty container....?Yes there is! It's a fat Westerner - that is, me! Yep, I was randomly picked out of a huge audience to risk the natural shape of my spine in the pursuit of testing the strength of some freak's legs at this Chinese circus. Of course I went along with it....

4 Comments:

Blogger scott said...

Batteries, huh?

And yes, you're a sucker for the spotlight, aren't you!

Tue Mar 13, 02:27:00 am 2007  
Blogger Caz said...

Are they extra big porta-loos in the first pic?

Wed Mar 14, 10:21:00 am 2007  
Blogger Caz said...

Is that REALLY you in the last pick?

Ooooooohhhhhhh, aaaarrrrrhhhh.

How cool.

Wed Mar 14, 10:23:00 am 2007  
Anonymous Kathy said...

Kewl.... indeed Caz!

Our James is certainly no square!!

Thu Mar 15, 12:08:00 pm 2007  

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