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Pouring a bowl of congee, the owner of this well assorted breakfast place by the market in Heshun, looks out on the center of the market every day. Serving congee, you tiao, and spicy noodles, the place is a favorite with the locals. Under the shade of a large temple two monks are studying, well, one is actually sleeping. Right next to them were a few small chairs and a blackboard setup, so the children of the village can also study. Throughout Asia, this is fairly typical, monks teaching the children, while they are studying themselves. On a market in Heshun, a man in hat with really funny teeth smiles at into the camera, while the butcher cuts his meat for him. The setting was just too funny and the smile to engaging to pass up. The meat on the market has, like nearly everywhere else, never seen the inside of a cooler or fridge. Fortunately it is ont too hot, this high up in the mountains. Out West in Yunnan, close to Ruili, near the border with Myanmar, an old woman haggles over the price for a bag full of vegetables. Her drawn face shows just how bitter her days have become, and many people in this area are not much better off. The market itself is a ramshackle affair for local villagers, with the raw meat under the sun attracting it's share of flies and the severed head of a pig a bargain not be be passed. The waterfall in Cherry Valley in Yunnan is cascading down the rocks to meet the muddy brown river below. In this black and white picture, I wanted to capture the dreamy nature of the waterfall. Throughout the valley clear, hot springs emerge from the rocks to gather in pools. A clear spring may run right next to a surface water, flowing cold and laden with particles from the rich soil. Shot in film, this works quite well for me. Rice bags with neat labels made from thin slices of wood, denoting the type and origin form a simple composition of circles and diagonals. This stall was by far the cleanest and best arranged in the entire market and its Japanese proprietor proud, but also camera shy. A white tile counter, dark hands holding a wipe and dressed out chicken combine in this photo from a market in Shanghai. Neatly lined up, a black chicken lies between the white ones and their legs seem to point like fingers at the man selling them. I like the contrast and starkness, but also the implied neatness geometry of the photo. Holding a plucked chicken in her hand, this market woman wanted me to buy, but I was not in the mood. Stained styrofoam containers, contrast with the clean chicken. Standing amidst his goods, a trader in rice, beans, oil and other canned goods smiles at the camera. Their stall was stuffed to the rafters with bottles and cans, sacks of rice and drums full of oil. The small counter features a poster with a modern, beautiful woman, electronic scales and a small assortment of noodles. Set to one side of the market, these stall were fun to see and made for interesting discoveries of goods and people alike. The wet market is full of fish in basins, or already gutted and ready to take home. This man was happily bantering with me, although his hand never left his knife on the table. In front, pomfret are lined up on the wooden counter and his arms and clothes are full of scales. This old man reminded me of a turtle, as he was shopping for vegetables in this Shanghai market. White hair, deep set eyes, dark black eyes made him stand out. Poultry is sitting in cages in a stark, white tiled room in a market in Shanghai. In the background, the bare chested proprietor is putting an end to one of them, readying it for his customer. In a corner is a machine that will pluck the feathers of the birds in a few seconds. The market had several stalls like this, each full of birds, their smell and stained liberally with blood and feathers. This stall was the cleanest that I saw that day.

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Pouring a bowl of congee, the owner of this well assorted breakfast place by the market in Heshun, looks out on the center of the market every day. Serving congee, you tiao, and spicy noodles, the place is a favorite with the locals.

Breakfast at a Market, Yunnan, China

Pouring a bowl of congee, the owner of this well assorted breakfast place by the market in Heshun, looks out on the center of the market every day.

Serving congee, you tiao, and spicy noodles, the place is a favorite with the locals.

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