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Blog entry New Projects posted. 2010-07-26 01:33:09 UTC

Spurred by an article on WIRED about how the US wants to move more of its freight traffic to internal waterways, I thought about how Shanghai's waterways ...

Blog entry Spring is Here posted. 2010-04-23 10:19:21 UTC

Sping has finally arrived in Shanghai and I discovered this cute little market, full of fish, birds, flowers and more. Feels like a photo shoot coming ...

Blog entry Moved Hosting posted. 2010-03-05 15:11:54 UTC

After hosting the site for more than a year from my own DSL connection, I finally got a decent host. Hopefully there will be no more outages and the ...

Photo Rice Bags at the Market published. 2009-12-26 01:08:41 UTC

Rice bags with neat labels made from thin slices of wood, denoting the type and origin form a simple composition of circles and diagonals.

This ...

Photo Chicken on Tile published. 2009-12-26 00:58:23 UTC

A white tile counter, dark hands holding a wipe and dressed out chicken combine in this photo from a market in Shanghai. Neatly lined up, a black chicken ...

Photo Chicken Anyone? published. 2009-12-26 00:31:34 UTC

Holding a plucked chicken in her hand, this market woman wanted me to buy, but I was not in the mood. Stained styrofoam containers, contrast with the ...

Photo Rice and Smiles published. 2009-12-26 00:26:51 UTC

Standing amidst his goods, a trader in rice, beans, oil and other canned goods smiles at the camera. Their stall was stuffed to the rafters with bottles ...

Photo Selling Fish published. 2009-12-26 00:23:16 UTC

The wet market is full of fish in basins, or already gutted and ready to take home. This man was happily bantering with me, although his hand never ...

Photo Vegetable Shopping at the Market published. 2009-12-26 00:18:20 UTC

This old man reminded me of a turtle, as he was shopping for vegetables in this Shanghai market. White hair, deep set eyes, dark black eyes made him ...

Photo Poultry Stall in a Market published. 2009-12-26 00:11:02 UTC

Poultry is sitting in cages in a stark, white tiled room in a market in Shanghai. In the background, the bare chested proprietor is putting an end ...