Photography
Collection of photographs. Most of them were taken by a CANON 60D during Yinda Xu’s leisure time.
- NOTE 1: all photos within this page are protected by a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. See the detail at the bottom of this page.
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Bell Accompanied by the Landscape of Autumn, Beijing, China
An iron bell hanging in the foreground with a colorful landscape of autumn in the background, taken during a mountain hiking in the Xishan National Forest Park of Beijing.
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Red Leaves at Wucaiqianshan (舞彩浅山), Beijing, China
Re-feel the autumn of Beijing before entering the “nuit blanche” or “war room” phase before the CVPR submission deadline. This photo was taken five years after the former Xishan Bell photo. Glad to still be a player at the table even five years later.
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Sun Rising Taken from Zhoushan Island, Zhoushan, China
Sun rising with industrial ships crossing the light.
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Morning at Marseille-Saint-Charles, Marseille, France
A view inside the train station, casting through the rails and extending to their extremity, where a TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse), the French high-speed train, was entering the station. Taken in the early morning, and synthesized with High Dynamic Range (HDR) technique.
DISCLAIMER: Marseille-Saint-Charles is a terminus and this photo was taken with my camera mounted on a mini tripod placed on the platform at the end of the rail.
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Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseille, France
The Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde, taken from a platform outside the train station Marseille-Saint-Charles.
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Vieux-Port, Marseille, France
Le Vieux-port (the old port) in Marseille.
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Area of Neuschwanstein Castle, Schwangau, Germany
Photo taken from a balcony of the Neuschwanstein Castle during the autumn season.
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Petite France, Strasbourg, France
La Petite France in Strasbourg, with the reflection of ancient buildings.
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Eave of an Ancient Building, Beijing, China
The eave of a building within the Beijing Temple of Confucius
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Gate Tower of Tiananmen in the Evening, Beijing, China
Gate Tower of Tiananmen with the national emblem of P. R. China centered in the middle of the image. Taken with the body leaning on a hurdle, with a tiny tripod standing against my shoulder, and with multiple times of exposures (finally one of them was clear enough).
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Flag Raising Ceremony on the Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
The moment where a soldier from the Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion unrolled the Five-star Red Flag. A team of officers were saluting uniformly to the flag.
The original version of this photo contains many noises due to insufficient light and fast speed of the unrolling motion. The ISO was too high otherwise the shutter speed would not be fast enough to capture the very short moment of unrolling without motion blur. Hopefully, nowdays we have a bunch of powerful and off-the-shelf AIGC tools which may help to denoise this photo. Current version was denoised with the noise filter in Photoshop©.
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Parked KTM250Duke at the Roadside of Grass Skyline, Zhangjiakou, China
Birthday ride with my motorbike. Celebrate my 30th anniversary and head into the next decade of my life.
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Overhead View of Yuquan Campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
For reaching the view point, one needs to start from the library of Yuquan Campus and climb several hundreds of steps of the Laohe mountain.
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Tiny Snowman on One Railing by the West Lake, Hangzhou, China
The West Lake is located in Hangzhou which is my hometown. There is not much snow in Hangzhou. And no need to mention such an occasion where I could meet a snowman as cute as the one in this photo. Snowmen don’t last for long, but as one instructor during a lecture on photography at ZJU said, “Trigger the shutter and therefore preserve the story” (original version in Chinese: “快门下去就是历史”). This should be one of the initial motivations of many photographers in my opinion.
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Anabranch of the Yellow River, Shanxi, China
Two vehicles is crossing on a bridge over an anabranch of the Yellow River. Taken during a motorcycle road trip along the Yellow River and crossing the Qin Mountains.
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Seventeen-Arch Bridge (十七孔桥), Summer Palace (颐和园), Beijing, China
Taken on a date that is not far away from the winter solstice and therefore fortunate enough to enjoy an approached version of golden light crossing the arches (金光穿洞).
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Sunrise Taken at Dongjiang (东疆), Tianjin, China
Taken during a motorcycle road trip. This scene reminds me of the opening image of ED20 of One Piece as well as the first sentence of lyrics of “Dear Sunrise” by Maki Otsuki which is accompanied by a sentiment of reaching the end of a grand journey.
どれだけ走ってきたのか、分からないまま傷跡数えた。
It resonates with me by recalling the distance of my life path already accomplished which is paved with my past achievements. I feel like someone is telling me, “A valuable past worths continuous endeavor in the future.”. さ、諦めないよ。
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KTM250Duke Parked at the Entrance of Mulan Paddock (木兰围场), Chengde, China
Previous serving as a hunting ground during the Qing Dynasty, Mulan Paddock is now named the Saihanba (塞罕坝) National Forest Park and is connected to the eastern starting point of the National Scenic Highway No. 1 (国家一号风景大道) whose length is 180km.
Taken on the last day of my longest multi-day road trip by motorcycle accomplished alone. This day, I drove more than 200km of highways and 400km of expressways with my bike.
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KTM250Duke During the Ring Road around Qinghai Lake, Qinghai, China
The Qinghai Lake area is a mixture of deserts and lakes. The well-constructed infrastructure makes it possible for a large quantity of tourists to travel by car, by bicycle, and by motorcycle.
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Lakeside of Qinghai Lake, Qinghai, China
View of Qinghai Lake from the ring road. I had been waiting until a vehicle passed the center between two poles. The lower part is a piece of grassland accompanied by a herd of sheep. The weather was a bit foggy which made the upper part of the lake in the photo covered of white fog. As the largest lake in China, Qinghai Lake is preserved carefully and only allows tourists to reach the lakeside of a limited number of areas.
Reference: Qinghai Lake
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Sunrise Taken from the Peak of Mount Tai, Qinghai, China
Sunrise witnessed from Sun Viewing Peak. Deemed as the most revered one of the Five Sacred Mountains (五岳独尊), Mount Tai is famous for its grandiose landscape, rock carving with calligraphy, and more. Witnessing the sunrise on the peak after climbing Mount Tai during the night without sleep is a popular activity, especially among university students.
Reference: Mount Tai
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Yinda Xu's Collection of Photographs by Yinda (Frédéric) Xu (许胤达) is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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