Category:Travel
I don’t for a minute think that my photo, ‘Mummy’s Little Helper’ shows child labor in a pottery factory. I think it just shows a work environment where a mother was allowed to bring her child to work in order the keep an eye on her.
This Temple of Heaven cleaner is watching my fellow tourists keenly – as if daring one of them to drop some litter! Her tools are functional but hardly ergonomic.
So where do you go in Beijing on the first sunny day of your visit? You could do worse than the Temple of Heaven.
‘If walls could talk’ was a phrase I used to hear quite often, referring to the silent witnesses to all that goes on within a space. Well maybe this young lady is a wall whisperer – a lady who can hear what the walls have to say.
I saw these engines everywhere I went in China in 1991 which is why I titled this photo, ‘Engine of Growth’. I saw this type of engine powering so many different things – they seemed to be everywhere.
I’ve titled today’s photo ‘Forbidden Decay’ because it shows one small corner of the Forbidden City under repair in 1991.