construction #1 - with hands

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
Construction - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

construction #2 - with legs

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
Construction - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

bright round #1

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
round office building - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

bright round #2

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
round office building - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

three windows

Yantai - Central - Old home with 'golden light - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

getting ready

Yantai - Western edge of town - Street "Peach" vendor - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

peaches and plums

Yantai - On the western edge of town a little girl 'eyes' the plums and
peaches at her mothers street stall - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

walking

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" - View from
the second floor of teaching building number six - morning
photo: mhobbs

apartments #1

Yantai - Central - Apartments on the edge of a hill - between the
apartments - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

apartments #2

Yantai - Central - Apartments on the edge of a hill - walkway - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

apartments #3

Yantai - Central - Apartments on the edge of a hill - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

apartments on a hill #4 - washing

Yantai - Central - Apartments on the edge of a hill - washing - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

between two walls

Yantai - Central - Very little light passes between the narrow walls of the
alleys and small back streets of central Yantai - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

wisdom

Yantai - Mother and son - Small backstreet - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

yellow on blue

Yantai - "Shandong Institutute of Business and Technology" -
Airconditioner cooling tower - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

between two greens

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
Washing on the green - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #1 - Number 3

Yantai - Central - Street sign - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #2 - behind

Yantai - Central - Father and son - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" -
afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #3 - "sport"

Yantai - Central - Man on bike - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" -
afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #4 - under the eaves

Yantai - Central - Corner - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #5 - looking back

Yantai - Central - Old man - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #6 - blue sign

Yantai - Central - Bike and gate - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" -
late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

Sheng Li Lu #7 - between the houses

Yantai - Central - Two men come home - Shen Li Lu - "Small backstreet" -
late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

moveout #1

Yantai - Korean redevelopment in an area on the eastern boarder
of the city - many of the residents have been evicted without
consultation or adequate compensation (this type of "land grabbing" is rife
across China in areas of development such as Beijing and Shanghai) - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

moveout #2

Yantai - Flags advertising a new apartment complex - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

moveout #3

Yantai - Clothes factory demolition - An apartment complex will replace
the factory- afternoon
photo: mhobbs

makeway #4

Yantai - redevelopment area - demolition of old apartment buildings and
a factory, with the new apartments in the background
photo: mhobbs

makeway #5

Yantai - New Korean apartment buildings on the eastern edge of town - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

buttons

Yantai - Central - A street vendor spreads his buttons on the
sidewalk - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red wall

Yantai - Central - "Red wall" - Old man with bike - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

behind the gilt (guilt)

Yantai - Central - Gilt Lion (close-up) at the entrance to a restaurant - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red and white

Yantai - Central - Vintage sign for shoe repair (close-up) - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

corner store

Yantai - Central - "Corner store" on Xinanhe Lu - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

yellow house

Yantai - Central - A turn of the century school house
and church on Xinanhe Lu, its yellow 'washed' masonry
and brickwork darkened by the afternoon summer shower - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

looking far

Yantai - Old man with motorbike - Small backstreet - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

dark hall

Yantai - Dark hall teaching building number six - "Shandong Institute of
Business and Technology" - morning
photo: mhobbs

in the fog

Yantai - Sculpture in the fog - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology"
- early morning
photo: mhobbs

through the birch

Yantai - The mist through the burch tree forest - "Shandong Institute
of Business and Technology"- early morning
photo: mhobbs

peaches in the rain

Yantai - Peach vendor in the rain - On the edge of topwn - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

windows

Yantai - "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" -
Building No. 12 - early morning
photo: mhobbs

shellfish vendor

Yantai - Central - Market street - Shellfish vendor - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

apples

Yantai - Central - Fruit vendor - Small backstreet - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

beachcombing

Yantai - Beach No. 1 - Two young women walk on the
beach after a storm - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

amongst the debris #1

Yantai - Central - A young boy and his sisters, sit amongst the debrise
of inner urban China - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

amongst the debris #2

Yantai - Central - Young boy (making a scary sound) and his sister - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

on the phone

Yantai - Central - A cyclist speeds along a busy street, whilst in the background a woman sitting under the watchful gaze of a billboard advertising the services of a cell phone company, talks on a cell phone - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

public woman

Yantai - Central - "Public woman" - Market street - (Marco Polo on his
travels across China from Europe, called the prostitutes of China
"Public women") - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red washing #1

Yantai - Central - Old house with red "knickers" and two bikes-
Small backstreet - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red washing #2

Yantai - Central - Washing in a window facing an overpass on
Jiefang Lu - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

market street

Yantai - Central - Market street - Street vendor - afternoon
photo: mhobbs