Men fly kites at the base of the restored city wall near Chongwenmen, in Beijing, in 2008.
Rain streaks the windows of a Beijing bus arriving at Qianmen on a wet spring day in April 2012.
A baby wearing a traditional open-backed bib has the advantage in a Fengtai district wet market on a sweltering summer day in Beijing, 2011.
The recently completed CCTV headquarters rise up beneath a window washer in Beijing, 2010.
A sudden downpour at rush hour on June 23, 2011, brought traffic to a standstill when Beijing's drainage systems couldn't keep up, flooding the capital's roads.
Serious metal lovers abound at Beijing's MIDI Music Festival, 2012.
A woman gives her husband a haircut in the hallway of their Beijing apartment on a hot summer morning in 2011.
Pigeons in a coop in Beijing's Fengtai district huddle close to their mother, 2011.
An elderly man in Beijing displays one of the tiny, featherweight kites he flies in Taoranting Park before putting it back in its traveling tin.
Just one of many selfies taken at the 2012 INTRO electronic music festival in Beijing.
A young seamstress sews curtains in south Beijing on a spring day in 2011.
A security guard takes a break at the 2012 MIDI electronic music festival.
A man sleeps beneath a painting of the Water Cube and Beijing Olympics near Qianmen.
On a summer day, the towering lamps provide some of the only shade available in Tiananmen Square.
Lighting strikes the south of Beijing during a summer storm in 2010.
Left: A woman goes through the photos on her camera at the 2012 MIDI Music Festival. Right: An enthusiastic crowd surfer is hoisted into the air.
The Temple of Heaven is painstakingly restored and repainted regularly, while the residential building on the right, which once stood in Chaoyang district, was razed to make way for the expansion of Beijing's Central Business District.
The tiny ladder of a fire engine is no match for the flames that consumed the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Beijing on February 9, 2009.
Themed "PM2.5" for the size of the hazardous pollutant particles that can enter the bloodstream, the 2012 MIDI Music Festival took place under appropriately hazy skies in Beijing.
An employee touches up the wax version of singer Jay Chou's face at Madame Tussauds in Beijing before the doors open on a July 2015 morning.
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