The photograph was taken from a boat on the Li River in the Guangxi province of China. As our boat made its way from Yangshou to Guilin I felt as if I was in one of the drawings from the books by Dr. Seuss with its randomly shaped mountains. It is here that one can find the surreal peaks and misty valleys that are popular subjects of Chinese paintings. The author, Edgar Snow described the mountains as being "...an infinite variety of queer, embattled shapes - hills like great castles, like rows of mammoth, nicely rounded scones, like ranges torn by some giant hand, leaving behind the imprint of angry fingers. Fantastic, incredible and sometimes frightening shapes, a world configured by a mad god - and sometimes a world also of strange surrealist beauty."