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 p.1 #1 · Alt does a tibetan village | |
I recently stayed a week with a tibetan family in a remote tibetan village in Sichuan Province, China, which has only ever seen a handfull of westerners.
Since I have access to internet (amazingly), I thought to share some images and a little storyishness.
(note that all are low contrast jpg's [contrast set to -3 for histogram purposes] straight out of camera. I didn't bring a laptop  )
Many new houses are being erected at the valley floor in response to Government grants. Villagers are being given large sums to move down from their grazing lands higher up the valley walls in order to bring them within easy reach. The lands at the bottom near the river are colder and less fertile.
Old tibetan village house built at the traditional elevation
CV Ultron 40/2 @11
When one family builds a new house the whole village comes to help.
5D, Nikkor 28/2 N @11
Checking the younger goats which are not yet grown enough to be herded up the steep valley walls to the grazing lands.
5D, Nikkor 28/2 N @2.5
Traditional Tibetan Breakfast
28/2 @2?
The Valley is long and fairly deep. Within it are several tibetan villages, most of which are closely linked through family ties.
At the base of the valley near the river a cluster of large, newly built houses wait for the morning sun to reach them.
70-200/4L at 140mm @10
Flags litter the valley walls in great clusters to perpetuate the memory of passed village members. Between them horses graze in the first rays of sun to extend over the surrounding mountains.
70-200/4L at 70mm f10
Surveying the valley from a ridge
Tamron 17/3.5
yours truly, traversing the ridge above the valley, enjoying tibetan bread and a long-awaited snowing which will bring life to dry pastures and fields in the valley below.
either Nikkor 28 or CV 40
The winter-dry valley in question
Nik 28/2 @11
Blessed snow covers a mountain-top corral where livestock is kept overnight during the summer grazing.
cv 40 or Nik 28 (dont I wish for EXIF coded adapters!)
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