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Photo Man with funny teeth published.

On a market in Heshun, a man in hat with really funny teeth smiles at into the camera, while the butcher cuts his meat for him.

The setting was ...

Photo Woman on a market in Yunnan published.

Out West in Yunnan, close to Ruili, near the border with Myanmar, an old woman haggles over the price for a bag full of vegetables. Her drawn face ...

Blog entry Nikon F100 posted.

I went and upgraded my film body to one of the best Nikons ever made. The F100 was the last pro-sumer film body to hit the streets and it is smooth ...

Blog entry Twitter changes posted.

Twitter changed to oauth only, and so I updated my code to keep twitter followers posted automatically with news.
30 minutes and one gem later, everything ...

Photo Waterfall Cherry Valley published.

The waterfall in Cherry Valley in Yunnan is cascading down the rocks to meet the muddy brown river below.
In this black and white picture, I wanted ...

Blog entry Buying Gear in Shanghai posted.

The best places to buy camera gear in Shanghai must be the mall at Luban Lu and Xietu Lu (five stories full of new and old, cameras, film lighting ...

Blog entry New Projects posted.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...