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Published: 2005-08-07 09:08:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 984; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 107
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Model: I forgot her nameLocation: Beijing, China
In Beijing, my family and I ate at a really cool restaurant. It was styled after a Qing dynasty environment. The restaurant was built from an old home from that era and the place is huge with beautiful landscaped gardens and rooms. Everywhere we walked, people bowed to us in the style of that era (made me feel like a king).
Anyways, the food was exquisit and the environment was just awesome. This was the waitress that served my table. My cousins were flipping through my photos and she was really curious to see them too. Since she was so interested, I asked her to pose for me for a few shots
. Notice the cool clothing and the awesome headdress.Shot was made at iso 100, 50mm, f/1.8 (probably should have used 2.0). Shutter opened at 1/60.
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Comments: 37
Hahahahahaha! Its just those earphones don't match those clothings.
When I was a kid, I knew there's something different about these clothes style from the one in the ancient eras. I'm Chinese but I wish I knew some Chinese history, even my mother knew the Manchus from the mainstream Chinese.
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ok this had to do with the manchu (or other wise named qing dynasty) i was hopping you knew what a hexagon 53 from the ear symbolized
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That is a cool headdress. Hey look, earphones. I'm assuming for orders and such things.
Anyway. I like the focus -- how you've used a shorter depth of field to achieve the blurry background. Composition is also well done.
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Thanks! You were absolutely right about the earphones.
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^.^ I thought so. Sorry I haven't been available for a few days... if you even tried to communicate with me... Anyways, how is it going? I hope all is well... and I hope to talk to you again soon. ^.^
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sigh... been really busy with work. I pulled an all nighter for work sometime last week and this week I've been somewhat tired. Haven't been working on pics sadly =/.
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I'm sorry 
why don't you request some time off only for like... a week or maybe just a few days? It could be a great help to you.
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i belive this style was used in "house of flying daggers" i love asian stuff
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Yup, they use it to communicate food orders, requests, etc.
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Beautiful. Lovely just lovely. This picture shows the culture, great. Nice colors.
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Thank you!!! I'm glad you like it
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Yup, they use it to communicate food orders, requests, etc.
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I'm so jealous! You have amazing china pictures! Your so phenominal!
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Well, thank you! I don't think I did anything special though. I just took the time to carry my camera around with me.
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Tis very special/phenominal/extraordinary/etc. Plus your talent with the camera is spectacular.
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I think this is an awesome shot and I love the colors but "Damn the headphones!" , they're not too bad but make no sense in the shot unless this were an Ipod around the world add 
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Haha, the headphones were there for them to communicate with each other I guess. The place is HUGE and they took orders via wireless PDAs and all had headphones on.
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huh...interesting. I figured it had to do with them comunicating w/eachother
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Ahhh this is awesome! 
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It was fun being there! There was definitely a mix of old and new, since they took orders via wireless pdas and communicated with each other through those headphones. Fun place to be at... very cultural!
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i like it its cool with the ear plugg in the ear to get a mix of old and new, good background like the fact that you can still see som outline of the roof on the house
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Wow, you can still make out the roof? You're amazing xD
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well isint it that over to the rigth over the hat, i think you see some of the roof columns
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was it expensive to eat at one of those? i really cant wait to go to china and eat amazing food. i love asian kitchen man.
btw, my gf comes from the quing dynasty, this is supposed to be like her traditional clothing or something. i gotta show this picture to her and see if im right.
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Umm... cost about 300 dollars to take out 9 people there, so not THAT expensive. It also depends on what you order though and if you have a private room. I think private rooms went for about $600 with a set menu. Some of the stuff on the menu can be up to 100's of dollars if you're not careful. Stuff like swallow's nest, a weird kind of seafood, etc.
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hehe
its good that i dont eat seafood
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Very nice shot with vibrant colours and a wonderful composition. I love this. I'm adding it to my favourites
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Hey stranger ;o)
Very nice! I am soo jealous. Some day...
~designcurve
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Haha, I'm sure we'll have an opportunity to go sometime in the future, when work isn't as demanding of our time.
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So beautiful! Lovely color! Also, I love the Qing dynasty era 
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Man I had so much fun there... I wanna go back badly too!
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