tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84661554026260498232024-02-21T19:50:03.168-08:00Jamie Manley PhotographyJamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-82569259742223152862016-02-06T22:54:00.000-08:002016-02-06T22:54:36.558-08:00Thailand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>On the river ferry | Bangkok, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Koh Lanta, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Fishermen in Krabi, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>On a long-tail boat | Krabi, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Inside an island cave | Krabi, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Long-tail boat | Krabi, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Koh Lanta, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Bangkok, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Street food | Bangkok, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Sunset on the beach | Koh Lanta, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Royal Palace | Bankok, Thailand</i></div>
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<i>Royal Palace | Bankok, Thailand</i></div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-3061027104957778512016-01-27T19:14:00.000-08:002016-01-28T11:12:31.594-08:00Vietnam and Cambodia <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Women on motorbikes | Hanoi, Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>High heels + poncho + motorbike | Hanoi, Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>A man filets a fish | Hanoi, Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>Fruit cart | Hanoi Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>A bowl of pho | Hanoi, Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>A whole family on a scooter | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam</i></div>
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<i>Gas delivery trucks (with balloons?) | Phnom Penh, Cambodia </i></div>
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<i>A biker in front of the royal place | Phnom Penh, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>The Silver Palace | Phnom Penh, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Angkor Wat, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Phnom Bakheng, a 9th century mountain temple | Angkor Wat, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Angkor Thom, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Ta Prohm (aka "Tomb Raider Temple") Cambodia</i></div>
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<i> This was my favorite temple in Angkor Wat</i></div>
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<i>A rickshaw drives through heavy rain. | Angkor Wat, Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Ta Prohm (aka "Tomb Raider Temple") Cambodia</i></div>
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<i>Prae Roup Temple, Cambodia</i></div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-8459032040944092012016-01-24T21:03:00.000-08:002016-01-24T21:03:34.454-08:00Singapore, Hong Kong, and Guilin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After I finished work in India, a friend and I traveled through Southeast Asia for some rest and sightseeing. We were able to cover a lot of ground in a short time, visiting Singapore, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand in just over a month. This first set of photos is from Singapore, Hong Kong and Guilin. Landing in Singapore, a city known for being so clean that you can get arrested for spitting, was quite a shock after 13 months in Delhi, where <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiemanley/15828459574">trash piles</a> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/East-Delhi-turns-into-a-waste-dump/articleshow/49521636.cms">line the streets</a>. I was also happy to make it to Guilin, a city in Guangxi province famous for it's unique limestone mountains (called karsts). You could spend a lifetime spending any one of these places, but here's what I was able to capture during my short visits. </div>
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Shoppers take the escalator in Singapore's Marina Bay Sands mall.</div>
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Singapore's surreal Gardens by the Bay park feels like something out of a Doctor Suess book.</div>
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That moment when you realize you're being photographed...</div>
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On the Hong Kong subway</div>
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A man reaches over the crowd for a shot of downtown Hong Kong. Taken at the viewing platform at Victoria's Peak.</div>
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Guilin's Reed Flute Caves are an enormous cave complex made even more astounding by the psychedelic lighting.</div>
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This river bend in Xingping, Guangxi appears on the back of the 20 yuan note.</div>
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Beatiful limestone karsts in Xingping, Guangxi.</div>
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One of the karsts in Xingping has a trail leading to the top, rewarding those who climb it with a magnificent view of the surrounding area.</div>
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A forest of karts in Xingping, Gaungxi.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-54890109002962926472016-01-04T18:19:00.000-08:002016-01-04T18:21:16.522-08:00Goodbye Delhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I left India at the end of August, and I have finally finished editing the last of my photos from around Delhi. These don't have any larger theme - just a collection of scenes that caught my eye. Looking at these from back in the US, many of the photos, especially those in Old Delhi, seem like worlds apart. Enjoy!</div>
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One of the busiest streets in Old Delhi, near the gate of Jama Masjid.</div>
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Men making naan in Old Delhi.</div>
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A man boards a bus in Delhi.</div>
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Connaught Place is the only area in Delhi that resembles a downtown, but the skyline is underwhelming for a city of 20 million people.</div>
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A busy street across from Jama Masjid in Old Delhi.</div>
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Chickens with wheels in Old Delhi.</div>
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People ask me why I became a vegetarian in India...</div>
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Women in the back of a bicycle rickshaw in Old Delhi.</div>
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A wall filled with political posters in Old Delhi.</div>
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A man in Old Delhi takes a photo of me as I take a photo of him.</div>
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A man peeks out over the alleyways below in Old Delhi,</div>
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A rickshaw driver waits outside a law office in Old Delhi.</div>
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One of the many crowded alleyways in Old Delhi.</div>
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Passengers at the Delhi Cantt Railway Station.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-66310773421970748732015-12-20T14:56:00.000-08:002015-12-20T14:56:34.353-08:00Delhi's Air Catastrophe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The World Health Organization recently ranked Delhi's air as the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/pollution/Delhi-has-the-worst-air-pollution-in-the-world-WHO/articleshow/34791079.cms">most polluted in the world</a>, worse even than Beijing's. The pollution comes from a number of sources: the dusty environment, hoards of cars and trucks, waste burning, coal-fired power plants within the city, and brick kilns on the outskirts (see <a href="http://urbanemissions.blogspot.in/2015/04/infographic-are-we-chasing-right.html">this infographic</a> for a more detailed breakdown). Delhi's air becomes especially nasty in the winter, when there is little wind to push fresh air into the city and a large number of the city's inhabitants resort to burning trash and biomass to stay warm.<br />
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In Beijing, air pollution is thought to <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/09/news/china-air-pollution/">reduce life expectancy by 5.5 years</a>. In Delhi, where PM2.5 levels (a measure of the smallest, most harmful air pollutants) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/05/world/asia/delhis-air-more-polluted-than-beijings.html?_r=0">were 45% higher than Beijing last year</a>, the effect could be much more severe. Making matters worse, there is little public knowledge of or concern about the air quality in Delhi. In Beijing, nearly everyone will wear face masks when the air turns bad. In Delhi, most people aren't even thinking about air pollution, and it is exceedingly rare to see anybody wearing a face mask. This will change, I hope, but for the time being, Delhi's air pollution is a public health catastrophe that is unfolding largely unnoticed by the 20 million people in the region.<br />
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India Gate is shrouded in smog during a winter morning in Delhi. Air pollution levels in Delhi are some of the highest in the world - posing a serious public health risk to the city's 20 million inhabitants.</div>
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Men in Ghaziabad's Sahibabad Industrial Area crowd around a small fire to stay warm in the winter. Waste burning accounts for 27.5% of PM2.5 emissions in Delhi, but for many it is a cheap and necessary source of heat in the winter. </div>
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Delhi's Rajghat Power Station, a 135MW coal-fired power plant located along the Yumuna River in the heart of Delhi. The plant was shut down in early December to improve air quality.</div>
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Rush hour traffic on the Mehrauli Gurgoan road. Vehicle traffic contributes to <a href="http://urbanemissions.blogspot.in/2015/04/infographic-are-we-chasing-right.html">18% of PM2.5 </a>emissions in Delhi. </div>
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High-voltage power transmission lines dot the landscape in rural Alwar, Rajasthan, around 200km outside of Delhi. A combination of fog and crop burning created a hazy skyline.</div>
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The quality of this photo isn't great because I took it on my phone at night, but it will give you a sense of the scale of trash burning in Delhi. This is a large trash fire outside of my office in the Sahibabad Industrial Area, Ghaziabad. Trash fires like this were extremely common in winter because people needed to stay warm, but also in other times of the year because the municipal trash collection systems in the area seemed to be completely broken, if they exist at all. </div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-26632571664518373102015-12-12T20:51:00.000-08:002015-12-12T20:52:07.650-08:00Malls with No Roads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I first got off at the Sikanderpur metro stop in Gurgoan, I was greeted with a sweeping view of the surrounding area. “Gurgoan was supposed to show off the New India, but they forgot to remove all this,” a friend told me, gesturing to the shantytown and trash piles lined up next to the metro station. Of course, there’s plenty of New India in Gurgoan, too. Just behind the shantytown, Gurgoan’s “Mall Mile” stretched into the distance, filled with cafes, designer clothing stores, and hip restaurants. The rest of the night would further reinforce my friend’s observation: we took an auto rickshaw to a microbrewery in an ultra-modern glass building that also housed a Mercedes Benz dealership, but the road in front of the building was half asphalt, half dirt and was pitch dark because there was no street lighting. Inside the bar, we were greeted with IPAs and Miley Cyrus at full volume. </div>
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Situated south of Delhi in the state of Haryana, Gurgoan sprouted up from farmland, and over the past 25 years the city has grown into a commercial center for Northern India. Today, half of all Fortune 500 companies have a presence in Gurgoan – drawing many middle and upper class professionals to the city. Gurgoan’s quick rise is attributed to a combination of cheap land, lax development regulations, and its proximity to Delhi. Much of the private land in Gurgoan was developed by DLF Limited, one of India’s largest private real estate developers, and it can sometimes feel like the company owns the entire city. A Gurgoan resident could easily live in DLF Phase IV (a residential colony), work in DLF’s Cyber City (an office complex, pictured below), and go out for dinner in DLF’s Grand Mall (or, alternatively, DLF’s Cyber Hub, which is attached to Cyber City). </div>
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Private development transformed Gurgoan into the economic powerhouse that it is today, but it has also resulted in a city with practically no public infrastructure. Gurgoan is plagued by poor roads, insufficient waste disposal systems, weak power infrastructure, and a government that is struggling to fix it all. Inside a gated community or mall in Gurgoan, it is easy to forget that you are in a country where nearly <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.2DAY/countries">60% of the population lives under $3.10 PPP a day</a> - but step into a public space and you are immediately back in India. Cambridge economist Amartya Sen warned that India is at risk of becoming, “half California, half Sub-Saharan Africa,” and this dynamic is abundantly clear in Gurgoan. These photos hope to show some of the perplexing scenes that one encounters on a daily basis in Gurgoan, with special focus given to the surreal transitions between the city’s public and private spaces. </div>
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(If you’d like to read a more comprehensive description of Gurgoan’s development and the problems it faces today, I would highly recommend <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/asia/09gurgaon.html?_r=0">this New York Times article</a>.)</div>
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A man checking his phone on Golf Course Road, Gurgoan. In the background, a Mercedes Benz dealership, microbrewery, Dell offices, and the skeleton of a new metro line look out over a barely-paved road.</div>
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An informal open-air market alongside Gurgoan's "Mall Mile" - a stretch of malls built next to each other. Gurgoan has over 25 malls that largely cater to wealthier segments of the population.</div>
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DLF's Cyber City, a private development with corporate offices and a large mall, rises above residential developments in Gurgoan. DLF Limited is one of the biggest real estate developers in India, and the company owns a large portion of the private land in Gurgoan.</div>
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The gate to DLF's Cyber City, one of the largest private commercial developments in Gurgoan. The interior of Cyber City feels completely removed from the public areas that surround it.</div>
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A rickshaw peddles along a dusty highway in Gurgoan.</div>
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High winds kick up dust on Gurgoan's Golf Course Road. Many roads in Gurgoan are partially or completely unpaved, which contributes to poor air quality.</div>
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Workers carry building materials along a road outside of Cyber City.</div>
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Ambience Mall in Gurgoan. Malls in Gurgoan are similar to malls you might find anywhere else in the world.</div>
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A storeowner in a shantytown behind DLF's Cyber City.</div>
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The excise duty on alcohol in Gurgoan is considerably lower than in Delhi, which has allowed large liquor stores in Gurgoan to attract customers from across the state border. However, in March the state of Haryana announced that the excise duty on foreign alcohol would brought to parity with Delhi.</div>
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A stray dog outside of Cyber City. In 2015, an average of 28 people were bitten by dogs every day in Gurgoan.</div>
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Lightning strikes above luxury high rise apartment buildings under construction in Gurgoan.</div>
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Ambience Mall in Gurgoan</div>
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Cycle rickshaws and gas-powered auto rickshaws wait for customers outside of a metro stop in Gurgoan.</div>
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Pratap, a security guard working in for a construction site in Gurgoan, stands on the median of Golf Course road.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-90619738344029694092015-11-16T17:36:00.000-08:002015-11-17T21:10:35.974-08:00Ladakh: Pangong Lake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The highlight of <a href="http://jamiemanley.blogspot.com/2015/11/ladakh.html">my trip to Ladakh</a> was a visit to Pangong Lake. Situated 4,350 meters above sea level and measuring 134 km long, the lake crosses a much-disputed section of the Indo-Chinese border. To get to the lake requires a special border permit and a harrowing six-hour drive from Leh. The first half of the week, the road to the lake was closed because heavy rains had caused landslides. Even once the road was open it was a terrifying drive, mostly because there was no guard rail to keep cars from sliding off the unpaved, narrow, and windy road. As someone who gets carsick easily and absolutely hates driving alongside cliffs, it wasn't the best six hours of my life.<br />
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The gorgeous lake made the drive worth it though. The crystal clear water mirrored the amazing hues in the sky, and combined with the enormous barren mountains rising out of the shore it made for a pretty spectacular place for photography. At night, the clear skies turned into a starscape, with the clearest view of the Milky Way I’ve ever seen. Since we were in a shared van we could only stay one night, but I could easily spend a month photographing the lake and hiking around the area. If you're in Ladakh, Pangong Lake is a must-see.</div>
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The Milky Way over the mountains surrounding Pangong Lake, Ladakh. At an elevation of over 4,300 meters high, there isn't much atmosphere to block out the stars!</div>
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A sky full of stars above Pangong Lake, Ladakh. (This also makes a pretty nice phone wallpaper.)<br />
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Prayer flags on the shores of Pangong lake at twilight.<br />
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Tsering Dondup, our homestay host in Pangong Lake, poses in his home. In 1959, Dondup fled to India on foot after Chinese Communist troops invaded Tibet. You can read more about Dondup here: <a href="http://katiechlin.com/in-sight-of-tibet" rel="nofollow">katiechlin.com/in-sight-of-tibet</a></div>
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My room at a small Tibetan homestay on Pangong Lake, Ladakh.</div>
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Marmots survey their surroundings. We came across these guys on the side of the road to the lake. </div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-87936312498073056122015-11-07T17:39:00.000-08:002015-11-11T09:36:54.602-08:00Ladakh: Leh Valley Area<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In August, I had the chance to visit Ladakh, a part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir situated high in the Himalayas along the Indo-Chinese border. I can confidently say that Ladakh is the most beautiful place I have ever visited. At 3,500 meters (11,500 ft) high, the barren landscape and deep blue skies were like nothing I’ve seen before. Driving around the area was a treat, and I spent most of the time on the road hanging out of the car window camera in hand trying to capture the passing landscape. There was no shortage of monasteries and pretty valleys to visit, many of which are pictured below. The highlight of the trip was a visit to Pangong Lake, which will have an entire post dedicated to it. </div>
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I was only able scratch the surface of what there is to see in Ladakh during the week I was there, but with any luck I'll be back soon. Hopefully these photos will give you a taste of what it’s like!</div>
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Thikse Monastery, Ladakh. Taken from the Shey Monastery across the valley.</div>
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Clouds gather over the Stok range in Leh, Ladakh. The Stok range is one of the most popular trekking routes in the area.</div>
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A stupa on the outskirts of the town of Leh. Behind it, the Stok Range.</div>
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Buddhist paintings inside the Alchi Monastery in Ladakh. The paintings are some of the oldest in the Ladakh area.</div>
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A winding staircase at Hemis Monastery, Ladakh.</div>
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A prayer bell inside of Hemis Monastery, Ladakh.</div>
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A stupa at the Hemis Monastery. The high altitude in Ladakh gives the sky an unreal blue hue.</div>
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Clouds move across the mountains creating dramatic shadows. </div>
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Looking over the Leh Valley. To give you a sense of scale, the small buildings in the center of the image are hangars that could probably fit a full commercial airliner inside.</div>
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Between the Royal Enfield motorcycle, the monks, the prayer flags, and the old solar panel, this photo feels very Ladakhi to me.</div>
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A line of stupas outside of the Shey Monastery in Ladakh.</div>
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A monk at the Leh Monastery looks over the Leh Valley.</div>
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A beautiful ceiling surrounded by paintings in the Leh Palace.</div>
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A lightening bolt over the mountains in Leh, Ladakh. I didn't have a tripod with me, so I got this shot the hard way by pointing my camera towards the storm and setting it to burst mode with as long a shutter speed as I could hold steadily. After a few hundred shots I finally got one with lightening in it. Next time I'll bring a tripod...</div>
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The main market street in Leh, Ledakh. On the mountains to the left, a monastery and the Leh Palace look over the town.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-28769493431523226052015-06-20T05:25:00.001-07:002015-06-20T05:25:30.971-07:00Return to Gaya, Bihar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My team and I returned to Gaya in March for a second visit to Bahsa Pipra and Badil Bigha villages, the sites of one of our rural electrification projects. This was a shorter visit, and like with Dhankya I didn't take as many photos the second time around. Still, I did manage shoot some fun portraits of a few men in the village showing off their motorcycle as well a a few snapshots of daily life in Bihar. Enjoy! </div>
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A man sits on a motorcycle outside the Gaya Junction train station in Bihar.</div>
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A street food vendor outside the Gaya Junction train station takes money from a customer.<br />
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Look! A foreigner! </div>
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A resident of Bahsa Pipra village, Gaya, Bihar.</div>
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A resident of Bahsa Pipra village, Gaya, Bihar.</div>
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These guys were really excited to have their portraits taken with their motorcycle. </div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-70741479039777819462015-06-06T06:28:00.000-07:002015-06-07T10:26:49.063-07:00Pre-Earthquake Nepal <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A friend and I visited Nepal for five days at the end of March, almost exactly a month before the devastating earthquake hit. We had a great time traveling through the Kathmandu valley region, including Bhaktapur, Dhulikhel, and Namobuddha temple. The highlight of the trip was seeing the well-preserved historical sites in Bhaktapur and Kathmandu, many of which have now been heavily damaged by the earthquake. I didn't take as many photos of these historical sites as I would have liked to, but I've included one of the best shots of <span style="text-align: center;">Bhaktapur's Durbar Square</span> below. I'm not sure how the earthquake has affected the people in these photos, but even if they weren't directly hurt by the earthquake, life will be very difficult for them while Nepal rebuilds after this disaster. I'm hoping for a speedy recovery. <br />
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Bhaktapur's Durbar Square almost exactly one month before the earthquake hit. The square was heavily damaged during the earthquake.<br />
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A woman arranges pots in Pottery Square, Bhaktapur.<br />
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A child peeps out from below an umbrella during a rainy day in Dhulikhel, Nepal.<br />
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Used soda bottled in our home stay home in Dhulikhel, Nepal.<br />
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During my trip to Nepal, we spent a night with a home stay family. The family ran a few small businesses, including a milk cooperative that offered loans for buffalo that could be repaid through milk sales. In this photo, our host shows us the log book of payments made in the milk cooperative.<br />
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Children play with toy guns near Namobuddha Temple, Nepal.<br />
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The Himalayas at sunrise. Taken near Namobuddha temple.<br />
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Namobuddha Temple in Nepal. The temple is where Buddha is said to have given his body to a starving tigress and her cubs. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in Nepal.<br />
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The Himalayas at sunrise. Taken near Namobuddha temple.<br />
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Prayer flags at the Namobuddha temple in Nepal. The temple is where Buddha is said to have given his body to a starving tigress and her cubs. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in Nepal.<br />
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This man pulled me aside and asked me to take a photo of him and his daugher on the outskirts of the historical town of Panauti.<br />
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-57545212542079368492015-05-30T05:21:00.001-07:002015-05-30T05:42:55.172-07:00Dhankya and Delhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few months ago, my team made a return visit to Rajasthan for our <a href="http://jamiemanley.blogspot.in/2015/03/portraits-of-dhankya.html">model village project in Dhankya</a>. Although I didn't take nearly as many photos the second time around, there are still a few shots worth sharing. Also included are a couple shots from around Delhi. Enjoy! </div>
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A customer at the Ganesh rooftop restaurant in Jaipur, Rajasthan. My team and I enjoyed a delicious meal at this open-air eatery.</div>
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A child overlooking gates to Jama Masjid in Old Delhi.<br />
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An auto rickshaw driver uses the Ola app on a smartphone to find customers. Transportation apps like Uber and Ola are becoming increasingly popular with drivers as smartphones become more prevalent.</div>
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Children and an elder in Dhankya village near Jaipur, Rajasthan.</div>
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Children smile for the camera at a school in Dhankya village, Rajasthan.</div>
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A small child in Dhankya village, Rajasthan carries a large stack of chairs.</div>
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Looking south on Delhi's congested historical district.</div>
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A tailor shop in Sahibabad Industrial Area, Ghaziabad.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-84952527223515498842015-04-16T06:18:00.001-07:002015-04-16T06:18:41.046-07:00Bihar: Gaya, Patna, and Purnea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In early February, my team and I visited the state of Bihar to conduct a field survey for two village we are hoping to electrify. The trip brought us to the state capital Patna, Gaya district, and Purnea district as we visited the villages, evaluated community outreach partners, and saw existing off-grid solar projects on the ground. Given Bihar's reputation as a lawless and underdeveloped state, we were happy to complete the trip without being kidnapped by Naxalites - the Maoist insurgents active in the area. In retrospect, we were pleasantly surprised that state was nearly not as defunct popular lore led us to believe (although we did have to spend a night in the Patna train station after one of our trains was delayed by eight hours).</div>
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That being said, much of the state still lives in poverty: it is humbling to visit villages without access to the electrical grid and where the value of the camera around my neck could easily be more than a household's annual income. The upside of the trip was that we were able to see solar starting to spread to off-grid areas through local NGOs, startups, and module distributers. These photos don't show much solar, mostly because I don't find solar panels or LED lights to be terribly visually compelling, but hopefully off-grid electricity access can be the topic of a future photo essay. In the mean time, here are some scenes from my travels. Enjoy! </div>
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A rickshaw driver pulls a woman through evening traffic in Purnea, Bihar.</div>
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A street food vendor on the side of the road in Purnea, Bihar.</div>
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An elderly man in Bahsa Pipra, Gaya, Bihar.</div>
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Boys peep into a small window opening to see our team reviewing the village map.</div>
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Two boys from Bahsa Pipra village, Gaya district, Bihar.</div>
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Mapping out the village boundaries in Bahsa Pipra village, Bihar.</div>
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A map of Bahsa Pipra village in Gaya, Bihar. The man who had the map told us that few maps of the area existed, and that he wouldn't give this copy to us even if we offered 10,000,000 rupees.</div>
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A women's self-help group meets in Badil Bigha village, Gaya, Bihar. The self-help group provides women with savings accounts and small loans - creating a link between the village and the formal banking system.</div>
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A rickshaw driver pulls a passenger along the road in Patna, the capital city of Bihar.</div>
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A man lights up one of the many rows of candles in Bodh Gaya, Bihar.</div>
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A sitting Buddhist figurine in Bodh Gaya, the location where Siddhartha attained enlightenment.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-57889452415802701642015-03-08T09:47:00.000-07:002015-03-08T09:47:05.007-07:00Grey Whale Cove<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was fortunate enough to return home to see my family in the Bay Area for two weeks in December. While I was home, a friend and I visited Grey Whale Cove - one of the many small beaches carved into the coastline in Pacifica. After more than five months in dusty Delhi, experiencing the Pacific Ocean, a clean beach, and a vibrant winter sunset was a treat. You can't find scenery like this in Delhi!<br />
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A bonus shot of the San Francisco skyline seen from the Strawberry Canyon fire trail in Berkeley.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-75247654854843838762015-03-01T02:12:00.000-08:002015-03-01T02:29:58.648-08:00Portraits of Dhankya <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In early December, my team and I visited Dhankya, a village about 30 minutes outside of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Dhankya has been selected as a model village under Prime Minister Modi's Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana program, which requires every member of parliament to adopt a village and coordinate development efforts to make it a model village by 2016. My team is working on providing solar power to households and community buildings to supplement electricity from the erratic national grid.<br />
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I suspect Dhankya is representative of a number of villages in India - places where residents are close enough to city centers to have access to urban amenities and service sector jobs but where agriculture is still the primary economic activity. Compared to other villages in India, Dhankya is relatively well-off, enjoying good road connection to Jaipur and literacy rates higher than average for Rajasthan. However, the village still faces a number of serious issues like underfunded public schools (science isn't taught at the secondary school level), a rapidly falling water table, and poor sanitation practices. Through the course of our field visit I photographed many residents of the village, giving a look at some of the faces of semi-rural India. Enjoy!<br />
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-55928714173465816372015-02-05T10:44:00.000-08:002015-02-05T20:14:55.034-08:00Around Delhi Pt. 2 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've uploaded more photos taken during my wanderings around Delhi. There's not much of a unifying theme here, but I think this set does a nice job at demonstrating the huge diversity of people and places that Delhi houses. Between trash-filled streets in Ghaziabad, cramped alleys in Old Delhi, and high-end shopping malls in Vasant Kunj, traveling through Delhi can feel like shifting between vastly different worlds. Hope you enjoy!</div>
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A bicycle rickshaw pulls a group of women in Old Delhi.</div>
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A cheerful auto driver glances back at me during my commute to work.</div>
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A drug store in Old Delhi.</div>
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Stepping into a mall in Delhi is like entering another world. Above, Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj.</div>
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The Sahibabad Industrial Area in Ghaziabad doesn't get a lot of foreigner visitors...</div>
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A cow lies in a trash pile in the Sahibabad Industrial Area, Ghaziabad.</div>
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Young men sitting outside of Red Fort in Old Delhi.</div>
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A roadside blanket vendor in Ghaziabad.</div>
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A cycle rickshaw river in Old Delhi looks for passengers.</div>
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Children playing on a hillside near Qutub Minar, Delhi.</div>
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I don't usually shoot a lot of video, but I've been recently getting in the habit of recording short clips from my day-to-day life. This clip was taken during my commute home one day through the Sahibabad Industrial Area in Ghaziabad. My coworker and I got into a rickshaw with a flashing green LED and huge stereo blasting music in the background. Add in a driver hidden behind a hood and it made for a surreal commute.<br />
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-44202501959910926222014-12-27T20:32:00.000-08:002015-01-11T07:12:15.469-08:00Hyderabad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I spent Diwali in Hyderabad with some friends and got the chance to shoot around the beautiful old city. Of course Hyderabad's yellow auto rickshaws, my favorite photo subject, attracted most of my attention. </div>
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A shopping road near Charminar in the Hyderabad old town.</div>
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Staff at the Chowmahalla Palace in Hyderabad rest in the magnificent main hall.</div>
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An avenue in the Hyderabad old city. On the right, the Mecca Masjid Mosque - one of the largest mosques in India.</div>
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An auto rickshaw is lit up by shops in the Hyderabad old town.</div>
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An auto driver rests on the side of the road in the Hyderabad old city near Charminar.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-23428733641332622422014-12-07T04:19:00.003-08:002014-12-07T04:19:51.843-08:00Dharamshala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few months ago some friends and I visited Dharamshala, a gorgeous town in the Himalayas and home of the Dalai Lama and the exiled Tibetan community. The clean air and mountain scenery was a welcome escape from Delhi. Of course, the drive from Delhi was delayed buy a few hours by a massive traffic jam (pictured below) caused by an ultra slow toll collector, but Dharamshala was well worth the wait.</div>
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A truck driver waits in a long traffic jam caused by a slow interstate toll collection.</div>
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A trucker waits to move forward in a long traffic jam at an interstate toll.</div>
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A mule returns down the path from the summit of Triund. Supplies for the rest stops on the mountain must be carried up by animals or people.</div>
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Cows graze at the summit of Triund, a mountain in McLeod Ganj.</div>
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A women deposits dirt at a construction site on the side of a hill in Dharamshala.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-56784813752934628152014-11-06T04:52:00.000-08:002014-11-10T06:53:00.113-08:00Out and About in Delhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More photos from around Delhi, and a continuation of my unintentional fascination with auto rickshaws as photo subjects. Enjoy!<br />
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An auto passes in front of a fruit stand in Green Park, Delhi.</div>
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A women peeps out from the back seat of an auto rickshaw on a highway in South Delhi.</div>
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Rickshaws in the streets of Old Delhi.</div>
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A man cleaning a car in Green Park, Delhi.</div>
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The Vaishali metro station at sunset. The Delhi Metro is one of the most beloved parts of the city.</div>
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A father and his daughter outside an optometrist in Green Park, Delhi.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-37795974632709689292014-10-29T11:25:00.001-07:002014-10-29T11:26:05.233-07:00Festival of Lights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Happy Diwali!</b></div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-81264459919046758992014-10-12T02:08:00.000-07:002015-03-08T09:56:02.198-07:00Delhi, The Taj, and Rajasthan <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've moved to Delhi as part of the <a href="http://iicworld.org/">International Innovation Corps</a>, a yearlong fellowship that places American and Indian young professionals into Indian public sector institutions to work on scalable solutions to social problems. I'm working with Central Electronics Limited, a state-owned solar manufacturer and the first domestic manufacturer of solar cells and module in India. My team is focusing on building a rural electrification program with an emphasis on smart solar microgrids. I've been here Since mid-July, but between finding an apartment, getting over the culture shock, and settling in at work I haven't had time to post photos. The photos below are from around Delhi, a visit to the Taj Mahal, and a field visit to Rajasthan I made for my work. I have at least three blog posts worth of photos in the pipeline, so keep your eye out for more photos coming soon!</div>
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Cycle rickshaws in East Delhi</div>
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An obligatory photo of the Taj Mahal</div>
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Tourist take cover during a heavy rain at the Taj.</div>
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An unelectrified home within sight of a high-voltage transmission line in Purkhawas, Rajasthan. The high cost of connecting smaller villages to the grid has left many homes in the area without electricity.</div>
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A women from Purkhawas, Rajasthan crouches next to her stove.</div>
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Goat herders in rural Purkhawas, Rajasthan pose for a portrait.</div>
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The Jodhpur old city seen from above.</div>
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Men from a small village in Purkhawas, Rajasthan sit on a mat while being interviewed by my team members.</div>
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The long-distance bus station in Jaipur, Rajasthan at 5am. We stopped here to to catch a painfully early connection back to Delhi.</div>
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The University of Chicago is known for its ivy-lined buildings and gothic architecture, but next to the University's iconic quads lies an expanse of glassy modern buildings. From the University of Chicago hospital to Manuseto library, the newly-developed areas surrounding the quads stand in stark contrast to the center of campus. These photos portray the lesser-seen side of the University of Chicago campus, where glass and steel replace ivy and gargoyles. Enjoy!</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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Notre Dame Catheral in Paris, France</div>
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Paris, France</div>
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The mouth of the river near Mont Saint Michelle, France.</div>
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Mont Saint Michelle, France</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-6386145813861456032014-05-30T08:48:00.001-07:002014-05-30T08:49:27.801-07:00Winter and SpingI've been a bit behind posting photos because I've been busy working on my senior thesis all year. That's done now, so here is are a bunch from the last six months all together. More to come soon!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiemanley/14304060812/" target="_blank"><img alt="Icy Point" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3780/14304060812_2861275ae0_b.jpg" /></a></div>
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Hyde Park's Promontory Point frozen over during the depths of winter.</div>
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The University of Chicago Quadrangles plastered with snow after a storm this winter.</div>
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Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA</div>
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Wildflowers on the coast in Half Moon Bay, California.</div>
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A banana slug on the floor of a redwood forest near Half Moon Bay, California</div>
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The floor of a redwood forest near Half Moon Bay, California.</div>
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A one minute exposure of Bond Chapel on the University of Chicago campus. Used a piece of welding glass as an ND filter, which worked surprisingly well.</div>
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Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466155402626049823.post-59443461763338021772014-04-19T12:33:00.000-07:002014-04-19T12:34:37.872-07:00Losing the 53rd Street Graffiti Wall<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I published a short photo essay in the Chicago Maroon about the demolition of the graffiti wall on 53rd Street in Hyde Park. The wall was one of the few places in Chicago where graffiti artists could paint without being hassled by neighbors or the police, but it was demolished in March to make way for a new apartment development. <a href="http://chicagomaroon.com/2014/04/19/losing-the-53rd-street-graffiti-wall/">Click here to see the full photo essay.</a>Jamie Manley (金汉生)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01233228504983912549noreply@blogger.com0