China's Expansion Enigma

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

CHINA | Sunday, 17 October 2010 | Views [491]

In Ordos Basin, a brick-firing hut. Coal fuel piled in the foreground, with finished brick piled in the back. This structure gives no indication of its age to the traveler looking on from bus.

In Ordos Basin, three farmers transporting corn on their modified motorcycle. The background shows trees planted for erosion control—attempts to limit the dust storms in places like Beijing. Captured from a bus.

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Barges transporting coal traveling through the ship locks of the Three Gorges Dam—the largest generator of renewable energy in the world—convey perhaps the clearest message of China’s energy economy: that it’s of a massive scale. Captured from a moving bus.

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China's Expansion Enigma

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

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