I’ve selected some of my favorite photographs from over the last few years:
Boutique: Sunrise in Beijing
Goose: Xi’an’s Big Goose Pagoda
Deckard: Hong Kong looking like something out of Blade Runner.
Brigadoon: Pudong’s tallest buildings disappearing into the clouds
Wall: Looking out of a watchtower at the snow on the Great Wall
Goats: Silhouetted prayer flags on the roofs of Lhasa at dusk
Imagineered: Roots interrupting a path over the hills north of Hangzhou
Chinatown: Dujiangyan‘s historic irrigation system
Shire: Inside a Hobbit hole, looking out at Hobbiton
Symmetry: Looking down the farthest edges of the Great Wall of China at the desert in Jiayuguan in the west and the sea in Shanhai in the east
Windswept: Prayer flags whipping in the wind of a high pass with the Himalayas beyond
Megatall: Looking down at the World Financial Center from the newer, taller Shanghai Tower
Ininterotto: The Pantheon in Rome
Highest: Everest at sunset
Tramonto: Sun setting behind the Vatican
Penultimate: An ornate, colorful roofline at the Lungshan Temple in Taipei
Forbidden: The Forbidden City above the snow-flecked pines, its halls receding into the mist and/or smog
Cyberpunk II: Horrifying animated skyscraper in Chongqing celebrating the Year of the Rooster
Westlake: The first blossoms of spring in Hangzhou
Wonderland: Fireworks at Harbin‘s annual Ice Festival