The Pic and a Word Challenge prompt and post  for this week made me think of these pictures from two trips I took to China in 2014. In the post Patrick Jennings talked about how in India and China he felt like people were an intrinsic part of the scenery and I realized that, while I am often frustrated by their presence, he is right.

China is often a busy and crowded place, but there are also large expanses of space. A single person in the frame turns a photograph into a picture, something that tells a bit of a story.

Martial artist practicing on the median of an 8 lane road..

Fruit vendor.

Construction worker.

Worshiper at a shrine to the Goddess of Heaven, Tian Hou.

Guard in the Forbidden City

Train conductor at Beijing Nan train station.