China Trip 2011 – HDR Photos

Here’s a set of photos I took recently during our trip to Beijing, Harbin and Xi’an.  Since we’ve returned, I’ve had some time to do some high dynamic range (HDR) tone mapping on the (Olympus) RAW files, to draw out some more detail from the original photos. Please let me know what you think (leave […]

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In Transit

Toni at the hostel Our last day saw us in transit from the island of Hokkaido, Japan back to our hometown of HangZhou, Zhejiang, China flying via Tokyo.  We departed from our hostel in Hirafu at around 5am in the morning, and took a train for three hours via Sapporo to the New Chitan airport.  […]

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Xi’an – Day Trip

Today we bid adieu to our brief, baffling and unsettling stopover in Beijing and continued our way back towards home.  Our final destination before returning to HangZhou is the old city of Xi’an, one of the older inland former capitals of China.  It is home to the world famous Terracotta Warriors, and much, much more. […]

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