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Blog entry On Shooting in Shanghai posted. 2009-09-21 16:03:03 UTC

What a strange place this is. I have been living here for more than seven years and yet, there it is full of surprises every time I go out and shoot. ...

Blog entry On Equipment posted. 2009-09-21 15:55:46 UTC

My first own camera was a Nikon F301. I still have it and shoot with it sometimes, but have accumulated a too long list of lenses, flashes, and other ...

Blog entry On Shooting Film posted. 2009-09-21 15:44:07 UTC

I like to shoot film for a simple reason. I can use a small, unimposing camera and just two manual focus lenses. That makes for a very small setup ...

Photo Scaffolds! published. 2009-09-17 09:42:50 UTC

Perched inside a piece of scaffolding for the new maglev construction, workers take a break. Scaffolding like this stretches for hundreds f meters ...

Photo A long way to go published. 2009-09-17 09:37:02 UTC

From atop an almost finished pillar, two workers gaze out as the construction site stretches out into the distance of Shanghai. On the left, the big ...

Photo Pillars at First Light published. 2009-09-17 09:32:12 UTC

Three pillars of the new maglev stand tall in first light on a Saturday morning in Shanghai. Two pillars hold up a prefabricated slab of concrete and ...

Photo Street Sweeper published. 2009-09-17 09:23:11 UTC

A worker sweeps the road along the construction site of the maglev from Shanghai to Beijing. An old fashioned broom seems little help against the engulfing ...

Photo Breaking up the Road published. 2009-09-17 09:19:25 UTC

A worker and his daunting task. Breaking up the road that leads to the new bridge for the maglev. A big sledgehammer is all he has to reduce the concrete ...

Photo Workers' Housing published. 2009-09-17 09:15:12 UTC

A migrant worker holds his infant during a break. This house holds maybe twenty workers, their families, and belongings. Looming in the back is a bridge ...

Photo View from the Top published. 2009-09-17 09:09:40 UTC

Two workers stand atop a concrete pillar of the maglev they are building. Each of these pillars supports a giant concrete and steel piece that two ...