What I did on my Summer Vacation Photographs
A yak/cow hybrid (Cho) amidst a meadow of Ranunculus at high altitudes in W. Sichuan

Professor Wang with the curious bracted flowering stems of Rheum alexandre.

Primula cockburniana is a blazingly good candelabra primrose too infrequently seen in cultivation

Bold leaves and flowers along a mountain stream belong to Ligularia and Rheum alexandre

Nova Producer and Writer, Doug Hamilton

Mark Roberts, soundman, is reknown for his work in recording the natural world, from ants to zebras

Our Chinese botanist from the Chengdu Institute of Botany, holding a picture of Ginkgo biloba taken by Ernest Wilson in 1903. The extant tree can be seen in the distance

The film crew and Chinese fixers from CCTV at 14,000' in the colorful meadows above Kanding

Lilium sargentiae, similar to L. regale, thrives in surprisingly hot, dry and rocky sites in Sichuan held by our cameraman

Tourists dress the part of the Red Army on a famous foot bridge in Kanding where a famous showdown occurred with the forces of Chang Kai chek

A young and shy country lad followed our crew through the dense forests of Glacier Peaks Nat'l Park

The lovely and robust Rhododendron calophytum grew beneath the virgin stands of Tsuga dumosa, here in a bright and moist glade

Homework time for a young student in a small village in Central Sichuan

This Gingko biloba, centuries old and revered as a spiritual place, was visited and photographed by EH Wilson in 1903