Portrait of an LBX

Jun
24
2010

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Photo: Scraggly Beard

Spotted in a small-town market on our way out of Yunnan.

Written by Andy in: All,Andy | Tags: beard, black and white, china, market, mustache, old man, Photography, pipe, smoking, wrinkles, Yunnan, 中國, 市場, 老頭, 胡子, 雲南, 黑白

Jun
20
2010

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Photo: Enjoying a Smoke

Watching life go by.

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Written by Andy in: All,Andy | Tags: black and white, china, cigarette, hat, low contrast, low key, old man, Photography, smoking, Yunnan, 中國, 云南, 圖片, 抽煙, 黑白

May
07
2010

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One starts seeing these massive...bongs (煙筒)...pretty much upon entering Yunnan province. Holding them at a slant, the men (never the women!) smoke cigarettes or pipe tobacco (煙絲), pulling the smoke through the water that sits in the bottom of the cylinder. On our last trip here, most of these were made of bamboo, but now they unfortunately seem to be trending toward metal or plastic.

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Written by Andy in: All,Andy | Tags: bong, china, hani, old man, old yuanyang, Photography, smoking, tobacco, xinjie, yi, yuanyang, Yunnan, Zhuang, 中國, 元陽, 新街, 煙筒, 煙絲, 老元陽, 雲南

Feb
17
2010

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Photo: Piggyback

A man carries his granddaughter piggyback through the courtyard of Luxi Town's Zhibi Tulou (植碧楼).

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Written by Andy in: All,Andy | Tags: cigarette, cobblestone, courtyard, fujian, granddaughter, grandfather, luxi, piggyback, smoking, zhibilou, 植碧楼, 福建, 芦溪

Feb
10
2010

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Photo: Hand-rolled Part II

The elderly in China are still going strong with those cigarettes...along with everyone else.

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Written by Andy in: All,Andy | Tags: cigarette, elderly, fujian, hard hat, market, old, Photography, smoke, smoking, xiazhai, 福建, 霞寨

Feb
10
2010

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Photo: Hand-rolled

Pretty much all the cigarettes I saw people smoking (and there were of course tons) in Xiazhai (霞寨), Fujian were hand-rolled. We haven't traveled very far lately due to visa issues and sickness. I promise we'll be getting the blog back up to date over the next few days!

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