Sunset at Xingping Photograph by James Bian, National Geographic Your Shot The sun sets over the mountaintops in Xingping, China, in this photo by Your Shot member James Bian. Guilin and the Li River are famous for their beautiful landscape, he writes. Visiting this area [has been] my dream. Before the trip, I selected a couple of locations to photograph sunrise and sunset, and Laozhai mountain was one of them. On a clear afternoon, I hiked to the peak an hour before sunset on a trail built and maintained by a Japanese gentleman (which saves a lot of energy for photographers). The view was overwhelming, with the Li River making a 180-degree turn right under my feet. I spent most of my time focusing on a wide-angle view until I realized that leaving the river out and just zooming in on the peaks and sun was a much better composition.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:35:33 +0000
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