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West Street

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Welcome to the tiny town of West Street, Yangshuo (yes, that's its name), located in the oh-so gorgeous Guilin, China.
The village is a small market village, and although it's accessable through the country side, the best way to get there is via a four hour ferry ride down the Li River.

It's absolutely beautiful here... random mountains just out around all sides of the town, and all along the streets, the most colorful merchants display their goods, and the people are very friendly and charismatic.

If you're good at haggling, this is definitely the place to be! I haggled a string of pearls (real ones, mind you) down from 200 yuan to 45 yuan, which is roughly $7.00.

Anyway...

The two photographed here are a couple. They'd just married, and the husband had flown his wife out to China to meet his folks. They weren't too happy about it, since he hadn't told them anything, but they told me that they had decided to make the best of it anyway. They were pretty cool kids, and I wish 'em luck!
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Honestly, if there is a stuff that draws my attention to this piece, it's mainly the colors and then, the composition. You captured it very well... it's simply perfect. :nod:

And... the mountains in the far that are blurred so much as this... I don't know, it just takes my attention away from the happening on the street - but it may be just me.

Overall, it's a lovely photo, thanks for showing us such a lovely, harmonic piece! :D