West Lake in B&W paint [西湖黑白画]
After my first failed trip to Hangzhou last month, I decided to give it another try two weeks ago. I went there for a day trip with my tourist friend from Chengdu. It didn’t start well, I missed the train depature time by 5 minutes, so had to throw away the ticket and bought another one, a slower train actually.
When we got out of the Hangzhou train station, we met two local women so sympathetic to us (new tourists) that they almost forced us to get on the bus instead of taking taxi to the lake. I tried but it was hard not to take their suggestion, so we obeid. Bottom line, we arrived at our intended destination an hour later than expected, as result of the missed train and taking bus.
It was a good day for sight-seeing but bad day for photo. The sky is all gray, a bit windy, all the lotus were long dead, some trees are yellow, or bald. I managed to snap around 50 shots, not much for a whole day trip at such a famed tourist attraction.
When I finally get to process those photos, it wasn’t as good as my previous trip to Hangzhou during Summer 2004. So I decided to convert some of the boring landscapes into B&W painting, I’m personally quite happy with the results. 
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You can see the whole album here.