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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Yeah, too bad they're not hi-res. I want one of them as my background.
- StephenChow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17If you want to look at the pictures WITHOUT the "fun mansion" tags, then go here: http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7301
Digg link here:
http://digg.com/design/Amazing_Photos_of_China - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16wow, these pictures are absolutely stunning!
- domomike, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I can explain them: The farmers put them there for irrigation. :D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Here's the original digg without the FunMansion.com label at the bottom of each picture and photograpers email address.
http://digg.com/design/Amazing_Photos_of_China - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Yeah, every time someone tries, someone else has to ruin it by mentioning the Tienanmen Square Massacre.
- ryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not Photoshopped, they're just very heavily saturated.
- q3ctf4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Here's a link to the original pictures:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fj102/photo/beautiful%20china.htm - Plinkyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Fun Mansion?
After you get over the gawdiness of the page, those picture are STUNNING! - mrbinary, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Romanization of Chinese words unfortunately isn't a very exact thing. Offhand I know of four different systems for romanizing normal words, and place names get even more muddled.
- Ibox, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Same website: these pics are also breathtaking.
http://www.funmansion.com/html/Volley-Girls.html - Germanicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You better hope that missile defence net will save you then.
- sencha5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9My guess is that they were developed like that for farming purposes, like rice paddies.
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9they are material such as granite, pushed up by volcanic activity millions of years ago. the sandstone around them has since been worn away
- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i wonder if some of those were HDR processed-the colors are unreal. very nice!
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Be aware that the China of Hong Kong is quite different from the China of, say, Heilongjiang. Point being, a book about growing up in L.A. wouldn't tell someone much at all about life in rural Vermont.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here's a site with a few of them in wallpaper size, as well as many other spectacular wallpapers:
http://www.kakura.jp/hw/wallpaper001.html - BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think so, it has that HDR style saturation look.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here are some nice wallpaper-sized images of other internatonal locales, including some in the same region (Xingping) as those in the post:
http://www.kakura.jp/hw/wallpaper001.html - canonman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wish I had HDR processed vision...
I really have to wonder how far out of Beijing/Shanghai you have to go before you find any place remotely like this. I was in China about a month ago... don't be mistaken, the smog in some places is horrible. It's hard to tell what time of day it is when you can't find the sun. - tommasig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Chinese internal problems have nothing to deal with beautiful landscapes.
- dpierce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Another good site with pictures like these from all around the world:
http://skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
I originally saw these pics there. - Paktu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The third and fourth pics look like they've been photoshopped...but very cool nonetheless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@StephenChow
I wasn't looking at the comments when I posted, you beat me to it. - tone70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3cybe,
A quick web search will find similar lovely pics from (to name just a few):
Genoa, Italy
Northern Ireland, UK
Paris, France
Seattle, USA
What a world! - CosmicBratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Holy *****, beautiful! I'm going there on Thursday..yay! :)
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How kind of 'funmansion.com' to slap their logo on every picture and squash the photos into squares...no doubt they stole the photos too, just like so many other sites *cough*ebaums*cough*
- McZiggz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm a bit dissapointed in this dupe. Not to take anything away from these images... they are stunning. And when i saw them last on digg i linked it to tons of people... but i wish that by now there was something new. I was hoping that nearly a year later, the internet has grown, and there would be more amazing pictures for me to enjoy.
I suppose the community has grown, and thats the interesting thing about being community driven. If some people are slow, stuff will get repeated. Oh Well. I am glad the new crowd can enjoy these beautiful pictures. These pictures inspired me to go to China, and i will be in this general area in about 12 months. - andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The different levels are called terraces, and they are built primarily for farming. It simply allows the farmers to produce crops, even in hilly areas.
- diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yay, totoro! ;)
- tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't find the link, but a website was dugg that had these photos sized for desktop backgrounds in different sizes if anyone cares to look around.
- chicksdigme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These sceneries need to be preserved. China needs to develop. It's gonna take a lotta effort.
- bobbygeorgina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd love to use them for backgrounds on my computers but that stupid logo in the bottom-right corner is fugly.
- Firax, on 02/20/2009, -0/+1Anyone from India here?
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3It was the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Ramen. - heiesuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow yes those are breathtakingly beautiful.
- bollox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1incredible
- LowFuel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a lot of them in Viet Nam too, specifically in Ha Long Bay. To a google image search for it, amazing place.
- bmirks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fantastic! I wanna go there right now.
- Salviati, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Here are some more great photos from China that were posted the first time this story was dugg. Some of the landscapes are similar, although they haven't been so carefully enhanced. Very beautiful though:
http://www.guilinchina.net/photo/index.htm
And for the record, I have nothing to do with the taking or posting of these photos. - Idugdigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4To get a even better description of China and its people read this book.
GoldenBoy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood. By: Martin Booth.
Its well worth the read. - oric, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1The real China: http://www.fotegrafik.com/gallery/china
- baaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Over-saturated or not, the processing is incredible, not to mention the original shots. Best not to look at them as photographs, but as photo-realistic paintings.
- zambuka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yep, there are some telltale signs of enhancement in some of the images, not easy to pick but they are there.
But they were most likely enhanced as 48 bit images and then resampled as 24 bit images. This preserves a lot of the colour range and avoids the more glaring teltale signs of manipulation (like spikes and gaps in the levels).
Regardless of this, they had to be good photos to begin with to get results like this from the type of saturation enhancement they likely used. Great images to start with = spectacular images after enhancement. - jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@tomofumi:
Same reason people like HDR pics. They're cool. - apolloandi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i saw these here a couple months ago
- leprechaun268, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Really great pictures.
- jaikar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish for once that breathtaking pictures have exact location and date comments. That should be the most obvious thing to do. But few do it.
- KevinYuan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cool and high quality pictures! there is very cool website collecting all kinds of news about how things are going on in China. if you like, you can go www.ebizdeal.com to take a look.
- cookiemonster01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^ actually for westerners it isn't exact,
for chinese whom write pinyin it's crystal clear
tiananmen meaning "gate of heavenly beauty" or "night and day gate"
the word "tien" doesn't exist in pinyin -
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