Road Trip: Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Leica M9)

I was incredibly lucky last month when a friend asked me if I’d like to make up the fourth person for a drive around the Tibetan area of West Sichuan, Province. Obviously I grabbed it. We were two Canucks, and two Chinese.
We took a couple of weeks to make a 3000 km loop starting in Chengdu. For photographers who love scenery and interesting cultures, this has to be one of the best corners of the world.
But rather than type about it, here are a few images. I have a larger gallery from this trip here.
If you’d like to check out more of my work, you can check this and/or this.

All images Leica M9 with Voigtlander and Zeiss lenses.

马尼干戈乡 Xiongba

སྐོར་ར M9

Tibetan Woman, སྡེ་དགེ Dege

Leica M9, Zeiss 25mm

Tibetan Pilgrim

དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང།

སྡེ་དགེ

སྐོར་ར, Ganzi

Up to Chola Pass (5000m)

马尼干戈乡

དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང།

Ganzi Horse Festival

Zeiss 25mm

Voigtlander 75mm Heliar

Leica M9, དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་

Dzogchen Monastery རྫོང་ཆེན་དགོན།

Derge Parkhang

Derge Sutra Printing Temple

Eastern Tibet

Derge Parkhang

50mm Nokton f1.5

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