November 13, 2009

Beijing, China





Outdoors. The Summer Palace.


As I have come to expect, Mark has captured more incredible scenes through the lens of the camera he gave me exactly one year ago (happy birthday to me, tomorrow!). There are many photographs that I want to showcase (chose my favorites from ~800), so I'm going to put them in subcategories. enjoy!

Landscapes:

Mu Tian Yu. The Great Wall.


Man at work. Summer Palace.


MY man at 'work.' The Great Wall.

Architecture:

Rooftops. The Summer Palace.


The Summer Palace.


The Summer Palace.

Architectural Detail:

Outside. The Summer Palace.


Tile Rooftop. The Summer Palace.


Black temple wall. The Summer Palace.


Marble Staircase. The Forbidden City.


Outside. The Summer Palace.



Outside door. The Summer Palace.


Side Rooftop. The Summer Palace.


Indoors. The Forbidden City.


Wall. The Forbidden City.

Artwork and Sculpture:

One of thousands. The Summer Palace


Character stamps. Shangri La Hotel, Beijing


Outside. The Forbidden City. *Mulan's friend?*



Display on walkway. Summer Palace.


Outside. The Forbidden City.


An artist's signature. Summer Palace.

Nature:

Tree bark. The Forbidden City.

12 comments:

Kristina said...

I can't get over you two! Y'all are both so talented and capture the most beautiful images! Keep 'em coming!! :)
And happy birthday tomorrow!!!

Katrina said...

Gorgeous pics! You should definitely get some of these printed to hang in your house.

KristenL said...

These are incredible pictures! He has a great talent--well, both of you do!

And gosh, I think there was something else I was going to tell you....something about today. Shoot, I can't remember what it was....

Oh WAIT. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! ;)

heheh. WISH I could overnight you some pancakes! Love you to pieces! You are one of the best people I know. Have a good one, you old fart!

Jordan said...

I think my jaw hit the floor with one of those anvil sound effects from the cartoons. These are amazing!!!! Did you edit them, or does your camera do cool stuff with colors? I am sick with jealousy! haha jk. I agree you should DEFINITELY have some of these framed for your house. Amazing! I love the "man at work" one!

Mars said...

WOW!! These are AMAZING. I can't get over the color & detail- you have an awesome camera & Mark captured those perfectly. He gets to see so many cool things/places. I'm jealous. Def frame some of those. They look like they should be in a magazine. Now I have an inkling to go to China haha.

Brittany B said...

Happy Birthday!

Holly said...

Wow! Such beautiful pictures! I really would like to get into photography someday. You both have a gift. And happy birthday!!!

Kasey said...

These are gorgeous! Mark takes amazing pictures. You should definitely get some framed.

And Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great day.

MC Lewis said...

Happy late birthday! I hope you had a blast.

Amy said...

Wow! You both have such an eye!

I have to ask, have you ever been to The Great Wall? And if not, weren't you a little jealous that he got to see it without you?

I'm trying to think if I would be...of course, I'd be excited for Tony to go cool places, but I'd want to go too.

I'm curious to know your feelings. :) If anything, he brings you back cool things and pictures as a consolation prize, right?

Jayci said...

Amy - YES... and RIGHT! ha ha

defining amy said...

so gorgeous!! i'm in love with these pictures almost as much as i'm in love with asia.