stairs on blue and yellow wall

Metal stairs on the outside of a large building, painted a bright blue with a yellow bottom wall, in the centre of the city
photo: mhobbs

triptych #1 - row

Yantai - East - A row of small businesses in a narrow backstreet in the east of the city - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

blur frame "rush"

Yantai - East - Students from "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" rush to a market in the failing light of late afternoon -
photo/manipulation: mhobbs

night wire

Yantai - Barbed wire tangled around an electrical pole in a "nong tang" (alley) on the northern edge of the city - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

digging the trenches

Yantai - East - These men, working at "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" outside the apartment building specifically for the foriegn teachers at the college, are all from Hebei provience, one of the less developed and poorest in China, many immigrant workers come to Shandong to find employment - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

14

Yantai - East - A pale blue/grey door at Shandong Institute of Business & Technology, with the number 14 painted on it for no apparent reason (14 being a 'cardinal number 1 more than 13 or 10 plus 4) - morning
photo: mhobbs

china lace

Yantai - North - In a "nong tang" (alley) on the northern edge of the city lace curtains with a typical Chinese scene of a pagoda and sea shore (as seen in Yantai) in the window of an old residential dwelling - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

man at his shoe shine stall

Yantai - Central - On a busy street in the centre of the city a man waits for his next customer at his "shoe shine stall" - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

stars on the wall

Yantai - North - A woman sits outside her store, reading a book with a coal burning kettle stove at her feet, on the northern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

yellow wall - white door

Yantai - East - A yellow wall, green cloth and white door in a small alley on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

motorbike truck wheel

Yantai - East - At a small market in the east of the city an old 'motorbike truck' sits abandoned - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

chun da 80

Yantai - East - On the eastern edge of the city a sign on a gate to the entrance of an old 'apartment/housing compound is half obscured by a old and peeling red paper "Chinese New Year" strip - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

plaster paint

Yantai - Central - Barrels of 'plaster paint' on a central city sidewalk - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

three wheels

Yantai - A three wheeled truck in a small backstreet on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

kite

Yantai - A kite flies high above beach number 1 (Bohai Bay) eastern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

blue wall

Yantai - East - Notices pasted onto a small 'blue wall' at 'Shandong Institute of Business and Technology' - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

blue

Yantai - A vendor sits at his stall in a small backstreet in the eastern part of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

'red'- sculpture

Yantai - A steel sculpture reaches sixty feet (eighteen meters) into the hot morning sky in a square at "Shandong University of Business and Technology", with one of the many 'teaching buildings in the background
photo: mhobbs

blue motorbike truck #1

Yantai - East - Blue Motorbike 'truck' - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs