This photograph is from a nice but small and off-the-beaten-path park in Beijing that we found as we were walking from our hotel to the Imperial Palace (the Forbidden City) – it was just so green and the willow trees added such nice texture, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. I think the soft light in Beijing – a nice by-product of a terrible pollution problem – adds to its being a very photogenic city.

This photograph is from a nice but small and off-the-beaten-path park in Beijing that we found as we were walking from our hotel to the Imperial Palace (the Forbidden City) – it was just so green and the willow trees added such nice texture, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. I think the soft light in Beijing – a nice by-product of a terrible pollution problem – adds to its being a very photogenic city.