I made a second trip to the Botanical gardens in Dalian on the 26th November on a quest to shoot the rest of the exercise spaces there and make the most of the tripod that I didn’t have last time I was there, and have a go at getting slightly different takes on the chairs in the lake image that is currently in my edit for the leisure book (see a post with the pdf that will be here in about a week or two). I noticed on the the main scenes with the cross beam between 2 trees now had bright yellow tape over the beam so reshot this before moving on to a few of the other trees that now stood out more due to this yellow tape and some spaces I had not noticed on my previous visit.
Dalian Botanical Gardens. Dalian. Liaoning. China. 26th November 2008
Amusingly I gathered quite a bit of interest while doing this and after an hur or so had a solid fan base of 5 spectators following me through the woodland. I remember when I first started out in photography and being shy to the point of not even liking taking pictures in front of people let alone of people and now here I am, wondering through a random bit of woodland in China with 5 guys just following and staring in utter bemusement at what I am doing. Wish I had shot some portraits of them now but oh well, my complete lack of language means it is difficult to achieve anything approaching intimacy in portraits here so I choose to avoid them, instead feeling that the landscape speaks far more intimately about my relationship with the Chinese and all of our relationships with the landscape. I still feel that nagging voice in the back of my head that I should be making portraits though but I worry if that is genuine or if it is just me trying to do what I think I should do rather than continuing to just respond in my own vision to the questions in my head.
Dalian Botanical Gardens. Dalian. Liaoning. China. 26th November 2008
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