{"id":35685,"date":"2025-08-05T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannybach.com\/2025\/08\/05\/about-the-cover-of-mountains-of-change\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:29:27","slug":"about-the-cover-of-mountains-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannybach.com\/en\/about-the-cover-of-mountains-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"About the cover of Mountains of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"35685\" class=\"elementor elementor-35685 elementor-35668\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a87e765 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a87e765\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-thegem\"><div class=\"elementor-row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c160b28\" data-id=\"c160b28\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ff0b05 flex-horizontal-align-default flex-horizontal-align-tablet-default flex-horizontal-align-mobile-default flex-vertical-align-default flex-vertical-align-tablet-default flex-vertical-align-mobile-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-thegem-styledimage\" data-id=\"8ff0b05\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;thegem_elementor_preset&quot;:&quot;style-2&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dannybach.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Giao-Thoa-Van-Hoa-38.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:35670,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;source&quot;:&quot;library&quot;},&quot;image_position&quot;:&quot;left&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"thegem-styledimage.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"styled-image-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"gem-image gem-wrapbox gem-wrapbox-style-2 gem-wrapbox-position-left lazy-loading \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"gem-wrapbox-inner  lazy-loading-item\"  data-ll-effect=\"move-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"gem-wrapbox-element img-responsive \"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t src=\"https:\/\/dannybach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Giao-Thoa-Van-Hoa-38.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t alt=\"Giao Thoa Van Hoa - 38\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/section>\r\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d18d202 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d18d202\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-thegem\"><div class=\"elementor-row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6f795f8\" data-id=\"6f795f8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2cc7d62 flex-horizontal-align-default flex-horizontal-align-tablet-default flex-horizontal-align-mobile-default flex-vertical-align-default flex-vertical-align-tablet-default flex-vertical-align-mobile-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2cc7d62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi folks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may or may not know that the cover photo of Mountains of Change depicts a Hmong boy standing and watching a group of people bring a model of Fansipan Peak down to Sa Pa square for display. The details are not very clear, because the photo looks very blurry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I usually prefer sharp photos with a large depth of field and a high enough shutter speed, but when choosing the cover photo for Mountains of Change, I ended up with a blurry photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main reason for this decision is that the photo shows the transformation in my thinking: when I first started this project, I observed and felt that everything that was happening in Sa Pa was very complicated and beyond my understanding at that time, the traces of thoughts are like the details on the photo were all faintly visible, immersed in shapes and colors. After I gathered enough information and knowledge about the development of Sa Pa, this story became so clear that it was haunting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This photo completely summarizes my psychological transformation during the process of making this photobook, in addition, the content in the photo also closely follows the themes that the book evokes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I took this photo in 2018, when I still brought a lot of equipment along, I took this photo with a Fujifilm GW690III camera, using Fujifilm Provia 100F positive film, digitized with an Epson V700 scanner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few words to share about the cover photo, hoping to find sympathy with readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best regards and see you again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PS: The photo book Mountains of Change has been opened for sale on different channels, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/dannybach.com\/2025\/08\/05\/where-to-purchase-photobook-mountains-of-change\/?lang=en\">this link to buy the book<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/section>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks, You may or may not know that the cover photo of Mountains of Change depicts a Hmong boy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kinh-wave-en","category-visual-diaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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