green

Peng Lai - Central - Green windows and stains on a building in the small city of Peng Lai, north west of Yantai
photo: mhobbs

learning

Peng Lai - Small children at an "English Corner" in the small city of Peng Lai, north west of Yantai - morning
photo: mhobbs

digging

Yantai - Central - A man rests, after digging a trench in central Yantai - afternoon
photo/manipulation: mhobbs

mother and child

Yantai - Mother and child on Yantai beach No. 1 - late afternoon
photo: mhobbs

electrical workers

Yantai - Central - Two men (electrical workers) standing by their truck
in the centre of the city
photo: mhobbs

sleeping giant

Yantai - Central - An old man sleeps in the street in the centre of the city - Afternoon
photo: mhobbs

tiles

Yantai - East - Ancient roof tiles placed in a concrete wall in an outside wall, small street in eastern Yantai
photo: mhobbs

Lo Mien & beer

Yantai - East - Beer and Lo Mein noodles (tossed wheat noodles) "soup" made in a small restaurant in a small backstreet in the eastern part of the city. - Early evening
photo: mhobbs

psychics on the street

Yantai - Central - Two psychics, a palm reader the other a "feet" (sic) reader, on a market street in the centre of town - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

against the wall

Yantai - Central - A street vendor with his 'biketruck' loaded with apples, rests against a wall in a small 'alley' in the centre of the city
photo: mhobbs

single light against the night

Yantai - A yellow light casts a strong glow against the approaching darkness in a small house in a backstreet in the eastern part of town
photo: mhobbs

middle age

Yantai - Central - A 'middle aged' woman rides past a billboard 'advertising' a Chinese clothes store in central Yantai. The billboard changes weekly and usually features a 'European Model' - Afternoon
photo: mhobbs

sunset behind the gate

Yantai - Sunset in eastern Yantai, small backstreet with an entry 'arch' or 'gate' welcoming visitors to the district - Dusk
photo: mhobbs

windows - reflected

Yantai - Two windows are relected in a pool of water at "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" with a pile of bricks and coal on the ground - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

blur - taxi

Yanati - Central - Two high apartment buildings in the centre of town as seen from a moving taxi
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

resting #1

Yantai - Central - A man takes a break, resting in his "biketruck", in the centre of town
photo: mhobbs

resting #2

Yantai - Central - A man takes a break, resting in his "biketruck", in the centre of town (detail)
photo: mhobbs

Love - fixing the road

Yantai - East - Four men repair a small street in the eastern part of town
photo: mhobbs

broom man

Yantai - East - In a small street in eastern Yantai a 'broom man' delivers his latest brooms - afternoon
photo: mhobbs