red on white

A Chinese character on the wall of a building in the centre of the city, the character means "clean" it is part of a larger sign on a wall that suggested to keep the streets clean photo:mhobbs

hardware

Yantai - south - In the southern section of the city a man enters a small hardware store, crowded with plastic buckets and pipes which "spill" onto the already crowded sidewalk - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red frame

Yantai - Central - Old signage on a wall in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo/manipulation: mhobbs

fireworks

Yantai - North - A wrapper for a tradition Chinese "firecracker", lays amongst the red remains of the exploded crackers, on a narrow "nong tang" (alley) in the north of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red star

Yantai - North - The "red star" of the Chinese Navy on a large gate in the northern section of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red shutters

Yantai - North - On the northern edge of the city an old "European" building circa 1910, with red shutters - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red door

Yantai - North - In a small backstreet on the northern edge of the city in a desolate courtyard a red door is the only reminder that the building was once an important government office. If you look closely you'll notice that the door is not only locked ut "bricked-up" on the inside - morning
photo: mhobbs

red coat # 2

Yantai - Centre - A woman on her bicycle with large "spring onions" strapped to the back of her bike, travels along a "nong tang" (alley) on the northern edge of the city - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

burning

Yantai - East - A neon sign 'burns' atop of a hotel "night and day", on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

leaf

Yantai - East - An 'Autumn' leaf at "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red

Yantai - East - Chilli drying in the sun - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

licence

Yantai - Centre - Taxi drivers licence on a dashboard of a taxi in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

painted wall

Yantai - Central - A wall in the centre of the city with a 'peeling' hand painted sign - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

looking in

Yantai - An old man looks into a window of a clinic on a small backstreet in the east of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red cap

Yantai - A "biketruck" girl rides across a busy street in the centre of the city on a hot afternoon - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

forty two

Yantai - East - Graffiti on a wall of a carpark at 'Shandong Institute of Business and Technology' - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

kite

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

red and white

Yantai - Central - A torn sign above a store in the 'central west' of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

red above the street

Yantai - Red 'welcome to the students' banners above a crowded street in the eastern part of the city, near 'Shandong Institute of Business and Technology'
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