This Week in Photos

Some favourite photographs from a week spent wandering the streets of Chengdu.

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Taxicab on the move.

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An encouraging sight out front of the PSB.

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And behind a very different set of bars.

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Chef.

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Yes, it’s a piece of toast with an egg baked in the centre. Of utmost deliciousness…

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…and the best mystery-fried-meat-and-herb-breadlike-product vendor in all Chengdu.

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Patterns.

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A flaw in the pattern.

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Strands.

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A leftover from the panda photo posts, a rare red sub-species that shares more in common with the raccoon than it does its black-and-white namesake.

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Dinner? The basket wasn’t secured but the hen’s wings were clipped.

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An altogether-too-common sight on Chengdu streets.

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We’d joked that, with indiscriminate littering the norm, China’s landfills must be empty. They’re not.

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Some plant.

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Paper route.

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Basketball.

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Austin Andrews is a Vancouver-based photojournalist and occasional filmmaker with a penchant for finding the fantastic in the everyday. Contact him at austin [at] disposablewords [dot] net

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