Many readers / blogging friends thought I have travelled everywhere. The truth is that the more you travelled, the more you realize that there are many places that you haven’t visited.
HuangShan in China is a place where I have never visited.
My classmate in Chinese Calligraphy, Mr. Chung Kwok Fan, was there just last week.
The photos he showed us were some of the best I have ever seen of HuangShan.
Basically, he was several thousand feet above sea level and viewing down the clouds and mountains below him.
It was just like a Chinese painting! Not just any painting, but a painting by a master.
The view is just surreal.
Mr. Chung has kindly agreed to my posting of this great photo.
Do you think this image warrant submitting to the National Geographic?
For those who would like to know more about HuangShan, below is an introduction from Wikipedia:
Huangshan ( literally: “Yellow Mountain”), is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The range is composed of material that was uplifted from an ancient sea during the Mesozoic era, 100 million years ago. The mountains themselves were carved by glaciers during the Quaternary. Vegetation on the range is thickest below 1,100 meters (3,600 ft), with trees growing up to the treeline at 1,800 meters (5,900 ft).
The area is well known for its scenery, sunsets, peculiarly shaped granite peaks, Huangshan Pine trees, and views of the clouds from above. Huangshan is a frequent subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of China’s major tourist destinations.
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Spellbinding. Yes, he should submit this to National Geographic’s My Shot.
Hi, I will encourage my classmate to submit. Have a great weekend!
Wow, so beautiful! The photo indeed should be in a major publication.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I will leave it to my classmate to decide whether he wants to submit. Have a great weekend!
Unbelievable! This is (totally) like old chinese (or for that matter Japanese) mountain paintings. Beautiful. Thanks Michael. I could spend a couple of hours meditating, or mulling, or musing in that very spot…
Take care
Brian
Hi Brian, I would like to be there too, viewing it for hours!
Awesome.
Thank you 🙂
I think submitting it is an excellent idea. Each photograph cannot be repeated because each one captures a unique moment in time. It is worthy of being seen in print.
Hi Ronovan, I will leave it to my classmate to decide whether he wants to submit. Have a great weekend!
now that IS somewhere i have wanted to visit. amazing shot!
I would like to see it in person too!
You are right. Great image. Transcendent image.
Before you submit it, I think that the rock face at the forefront should have more light and definition … find out HOW you submit and then at worst they will not accept it. But I think there may be a fee to be paid for submitting…Check their website. Cheers. V.
Hi V, yes, thanks for shedding some light on the photo 🙂
HI Michael,
The pictures are definitely worthy of National Geographic. The terrain suggests a lot of seismic activity. The way the mountains are thrust upwards so violently implies to me they are not an old range of mountains, but probably very new? It would be nice to know the geological history of the area.
Leslie
Hi Leslie, yes, they are “new folded mountains”, but still they are old when compared with us humans!
For sure.
Leslie
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wow
Have a great weekend, Suzanne!
great picture!
Thank you 🙂
Yes I think he should try. No harm in trying. It is very beautiful.
Hi bebs1, I will leave it to my classmate to decide whether he wants to submit. Have a great weekend!
Wow – this is an impressive photo indeed! My congratulations and admiration to Mr Chung.
I will convey your congratulations to him. Thank you 🙂
OH MY GOSH!
Thanks for liking the image 🙂
Damn! That does look like a painting! I love it! Totally feel like I am floating on clouds. It sure must have been a surreal experience.
Caroline, I am happy to see that you like the image so much 🙂
A spectacular photo. And what would be lost in submitting it? They cannot say “yes” if they don’t see the photo!
Quite true. I will leave it to my classmate to decide whether he wants to submit. Have a great weekend!
You too!
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I think you should definitely submit it, maybe even to a travel magazine. Absolutely beautiful!
Hi, I will leave it to my classmate to decide whether he wants to submit. Have a great weekend!
That is one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen ( except yours of the stone forest). National Geographic would do well to publish it.
Your comment has prompted me searching through my stone forest photos to see whether there are other images that I should share!
So beautiful! Yes, it is National Geographic-worthy, & I appreciate the information you shared. I travel the world through such blogs as this post. Thank you for sharing.
I am also greatful to my classmate for his willingness to share!
What an amazing scene in this photo by your friend! It looks like something from a science fiction movie – very special. Thanks for sharing.
When I was young I didn’t know places like this exists until I came across paintings of Huangshan – they do look inspirational !
So mysterious and majical! Looks like a place that could have inspired the scenery for the movie Avatar.
The place that inspired Avatar is Zhangjejia, this place seems more mystical!
Really beautiful and very special with great information Michael 🙂
Glad that you enjoy Huangshan, Irene!
Wow! The world and nature are wonderful! And you’re right! The more you travel, the more you realize that you still other places to visit. Happy Travels! 🙂
The outstanding places are quite far away, requiring a lot of travelling time and money!
I don’t believe it! Michael , this is the “must go” place if you haven’t. This was one of my early trips to china. Unforgettable ! I will write a post if I find my friend’s good pix. Mine are so so.
Your friend’s pix is exceptionally beautiful! But you need to see the real Huang Shan!
Problem is that my wife has been there. Whenever, we decide on a destination, we would like to choose a place where we both haven’t been – which is now getting more difficult!
She doesn’t like to go to Huang Shan again? perhaps there are too many tourists there. it is too crowded.
I think I should go there before I am getting too old. Understand now that they have sort of escalator up to mid-hill. May combine this trip with a visit to the Lake of Ten Thousand Islands1
i also went to thousand islands. not that exciting. but huang shan is somethnig you cannot miss.
indeed huangshan is not something that everyone can climb.
I’ll think of another combination! Have a great weekend 🙂
Great photo, yes it should be shared with NG and that would be splendid!
I will try to persuade my classmate and hope he would submit it!
you’d get the feeling you are in heaven in this place 😀
Yes, it is like entering into heaven!
stunning, and yes to NG
Would persuade my friend submitting. Have a great weekend!
Yes he definitely should! and you should convince your wife to go with you to visit the place. Have a great weekend
Yes, I need to go there before I am getting too old – needs to be physically very fit!
All the more reason to go! 🙂
Spring is the best time; maybe next Spring 🙂
Amazing shot! I am heading there in a few weeks time and would love to be able to capture something half as good as that photo.
Hope you can still find the clouds which are there only in Spring!
Stunning view – looks surreal.
Surreal is the only word I can think of for this heavenly sight!
mט cup of tea ; )
Thank you 🙂
This is quite a photo! Would love to know how he got up so high and what time of day and year this was. Great!!!
Hi, this is in the morning and my friend has been hiking for a few hours!
This one must go to NG! Hope to Huangshan in the future!
Hope you will visit it one day!
So beautiful. Just as beautiful or more so than a lot of photos I’ve seen in international mags. You have some of your own, Michael, that would qualify! 😉
Thanks Linda for your always kind comment! Have a great weekend 🙂
Breathtaking view – amazing and beautiful 🙂 We live on a hill and at some times of year we see over the tops of clouds that are low in the valley early in the morning … it is a strange experience … but not in the same league as Huang Shan! Wonderful photo and fascinating place – thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you for sharing your experience and feelings too 🙂
I love Huang Shan
Thank you 🙂
Our planet is definately an amazing place!! This place looks intense beautiful… thanks to your friend : ) Trees
Looks heavenly, glad you like it!
Wow! Your friends photo is absolutely stunning. What a beautiful place!
Glad that you like his photo! Regards, Michael
What a capture – wonderful mist
Hi, they are clouds but doesn’t matter, visually they are just similar here!
wow… I thought places like that only existed in artificial set up in movies… it does exist. 🙂
It does exist in reality! Regards. Michael
It frees the spirit. Just like the master’s do in their ink and watercolors.
Well said, the effects are similar!
Stunning! 🙂
Thank you!
Breathtakingly beautiful!
Many thanks for the kind comment!
The more you travel the more you realize how much more there is to see…so very true sir.
Hi, great to hear from you Tim. Thanks for agreeing with me too 🙂
Beautiful picture! It’s one place that I really want to visit. Maybe someday… Thanks for sharing.
I suppose this place is a Must for visiting 🙂
oh my God. Outstanding!
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Heavenly!
Thank you!
it is a truly extraordinary photo. You should go see it in person! I agree with all the NG comments. I do not see myself making such a trip, or visiting many of the places you photograph and share, so thank you for taking me to place I may never see. We have a different kind of magnificence in the USA, but I think it not the same as the geography in your area of the world. Thank you for reading my blog posts! You can see my photography is not up to your level.
Hi, I will visit there before I am getting too old. Every geography have different beautiful sceneries, those in the US are as good as anywhere else. I have just restarted picking up photography after retirement – there are just so many things to learn! Regards, Michael
Please thank Mr. Chung for taking the photo and also for allowing you to post it! Stunning!!
His photo is really stunning, I am glad that he allowed me to post it!
Wonderful shot. Very painterly… ie it looks like a painting not a photograph which is a style I love. Please encourage him to submit it where ever he can.
He would not be submitting anything to any competition, but has sent me photos on snow geese which I published here!
Lovely.
Thank you 🙂
Gorgeous! The most beautiful part of China by far, in my opinion
Hi, I agree – it is the most beautiful part of China.
Last week I visited the Chinese Garden here in Portland Oregon, they had bonsai in what looked like a miniature Huangshan, and I said “they need to use dry ice to make the clouds”. After viewing your friend’s magical photo I wish even more to see it myself some day. Send my congratulations to your friend for a marvelous picture.
That’s really a remarkable photo. I will send your congrats to my friend. Regards, Michael
It’s truly beautiful! I made a very short trip to Beijing 2 weeks ago and was sorry I did not have time to see more of China’s natural vegetation. Thanks for sharing.
Hope you will be able to Huangshan one day !
Wow, really incredible photos! Amazing view!
Great to hear from you,glad that you like the image!
I have shared this with my students of feng shui so they may see for themselves the inspiring, almost surreal geography of China’s landscape. I live on a coastal plain and this image is literally “other-worldly” for those who have never seen such lands. Your eye and effort to share this is appreciated. It is in lands like this the Dragon lives. 😀
Have seen many Chinese paintings similar to this one but did not believe sceneries like this did exist!
This is astounding! It might well be one of Wang Chien’s landscapes, or even a Wu Li painting. Thank you for sharing!
I am sure you are able to appreciated this scenery more if you have seen their paintings and vice versa too!
Exactly! To me, your friend’s photo was was like the paintings I had seen had come to life. A stunning photo, indeed.
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Michael, this is breathtaking! I was recently in Hefei, but could not make it to Yellow Mountains. Thanks for sharing.
Hope you will make it some other time!
It is indeed a great photograph, which is more than worthy of being shown within a greater arena. I congratulate your friend on him achieving this remarkable view.
Many thanks for your comment, I am glad to have shared it!
Yes, I agree. This a wonderful shot…
Thank you, Mark 🙂
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Thanks very much for the sharing!
oh, beautiful and thanks for the visit
You are welcome. Thanks for visiting also!
Hi Michael! 🙂 Thank you for visiting my site and liking my Singapore post.
Hi, Karen, you are welcome!
One of the places I didn’t make it to when I lived in China and regret that. Looks so beautiful.
Hope you will make it up there some other time!
It’s a great photo, and he should submit to the National Geographic, or any other such publication.
He has indicated repeatedly that he wouldn’t want to submit. I think we should count ourself fortunate to have his photo posted here!
Stunning. Amazing and beautiful. Yes, submit it to National Geographic. It’s a fantastic photograph. Thank you so much.
Sorry, he still wouldn’t want to have it submitted. maybe, after seeing so many readers liking his photo, he may change his mind, hopefully!
Oh my. That is a wonderful painting. How great that you can share it. Thank you
Glad that you like it 🙂
I think it should be. It’s intimidating.
Sacred 🙂
Huang Shan is the #1 site that my family and friends enjoyed so much. It is hard to believe that you have not been there!
Save the best to the last!
Thank you for dropping by my blog. Lovely picture, I have never got as far as China but I love the thought of it, and this picutre encapsulates all my dreams.
Hope you will get to China one day!
Fog and mist is a tool you have used well here! ❤
Without them, the images will have lost a lot of atmosphere!
This is breath taking. Photography at its best!
It is incredible, thank you!
Your friend Mr. Chung has an artists eye as well as you! This is stunning, and I hope you submit it to National Geographic! I’m so glad I found your blog site. Hopefully these comments will change his mind..
Hi, Mr Chung has firmly decided not to participate in any competition. I am unable to talk him out and cannot submit it on his behalf. So, unfortunately, his works can only be seen through my blog!
Michael this is a feast for my eyes, thank for this photo.
Your words say it all except where can I see more of his art?
Your friend in calligraphy has kept the magic seen in a Chinese ink painting.
An art form I admire and so enjoy.
Mountains floating in clouds Ying Ke Pines. _/\_
I have posted 3 photos on Huangshan, I am left with only one more which I will post in due course.
Thanks Michael.
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Breathtaking and monumental picture from so high up!
Glad that you like the image, thank you!
Hi, thanks for liking my post. Stunning photo, Michael. I have been to Huangshan, and getting a clear shot like that is usually not possible. My photos sadly did not come out well.
Glad that you like the photos!
Wow! This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Thank you for stopping by 🙂
Thank you also for liking my posts. I love your work, the photos are great. I hope one day I could be as good as you are. Keep it up! 🙂
Many thanks for the encouragement, will keep it up!
Mr Chung should definitely submit to national geographic!
Stunning photo.. just out of the book Capital of Heaven i have of Huang Shan photos!
I have never made it to Huang Shan yet either….. and its just down the road from Suzhou!
Beautiful, spectacular photo!
He has refused after repeated persuasion, hope you will make to Huang Shan soon!
Lovely beyond words!
Hi, you may also like to view my other post – Clouds: A collage of Photos
Your photos are absolutely wonderful to look at, serene and peaceful!
Thanks for the kind words!
Whoa!!!
Heaven on Earth!! 🙂 Your classmate sure is blessed! 🙂
You have to visit there several times in a year or to fly there when you overheard there is a sea of clouds in the area.
🙂 Sea of clouds…sounds like a place out of my dreams!
There is another post which gives you a collage of photos with clouds at Huangshan and also Zhanjiajie!
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Thank you!
“Just, wordless”…It looks surreal, but it is real….”Soothes out new vitality from the seeds of greatness in scripted on our soul, pushing up, for new DNA upgraded versions” …looks unreal…., but it is really real……,and suddenly…, the “Amazing Grace” beautiful melody inundated the brain area of my ears, laying out some unhidden meaningful words, and unfolding analogies …,and my whole spiritual body bended to the floor over my knees…..the wave kept pulsing, with a smooth flight into my queue of memories, and fraises came out honoring the “Amazing View” …….
It is said by neuroscientist: …..”more connections mean more effective learning”….so…besides all the stimulations on visual, speech, hearing and movement areas of the Brain, there goes the electric pulse, touching yet many zones….,and as always I have to introduce more people……, to “my precious treasure, “Box of Chinese wisdom cookies”…, and look what they say “this time”:….”The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all undimmed”…., and another one of them says:…”Real is all a vision. You have to see it for yourself”.
Thank You Mr. Lai, again, and for your friend Mr. Chung’s incredible ability on capturing the perfect angle for this suggestive “Photo”. “Thank You”.
I am glad that this picture invokes so much feeling and sensation in you! Many thanks for introducing my blog to your friends 🙂
Was a mystical, a spiritual experience. The photo is a pretty good one, so I took advantages of it, and just thought that was standing in front of it, and couldn’t avoid “the reverence” I felt to the greatness of God’s “creation”.
Many thanks!
Well, may be was not very accurate to “say” that was completely mystical, but may be several levels before that some when closer one day, ha!…ha!. And , yes, I think that many of my friend, would like to see your site. Thank you for it.
Would be nice if you would share it with your friends 🙂
Absolutely stunning photography, Micheal. Your friend Mr Chung has a wonderful eye, and what a marvellous place to have visited. It seems to have a strong spirit and presence.
The mountains just seem to be floating above the clouds! I am glad that Mr Chung passed me the photos!
So am I!
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Such a classic scene – definitely worthy of National Geographic (I’d love to have it as wallpaper on my computer! *smile*). Thank you for sharing.
Well, you can have it on your computer as wall paper!
I am back from my Huangshan trip! The day trip took 12 hours including wait line, and we only saw 5 minutes of sun and mountain coming out of the clouds…. i posted my trip here and there are also some mountain pix too….did u get to see hongcun when u visited? https://journeydiva.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/three-nights-in-huangshan/
Wonderful post, we didn’t get to honfcun.
Michael I went there when I was living in Beijing and it was a magnificent place; your photos are really good.
I like the style of your presentation and your photos too!
Thank you so much Michael. This is really kind of you to post your really lovely comment. You have made my day.
You are most welcome!
Wishing you a happy weekend,
Michael
That photo is breathtakinly beautiful.
Thank you 🙂
this is beautiful 🙂 it’s on my bucket list 🙂 thanks for sharing 🙂 have a share travels always
Hope you will see it in person soon!
hi michael… yes soon 🙂 we will go back to philippines next year and start our asia travel 🙂 thanks for sharing your beautiful photos 🙂
Trust you will enjoy your stay in the Philippines!
Yes Michael, that is my hometown 🙂 have you been there?
Not yet, I hope I can visit there one day.
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