Shanghai Tan

Ancient style floating village is gaining big popularity in recent years as touristic attraction, since the unknown village of Zhou Zhuang [周庄] made popular within China by now deceased artist Chen Yifei [陈逸飞] and known to the world after the shooting of Mission Impossible 3 with Tom Cruise. Wuzhen [乌镇]] is one of them, situated [...]

坐在家楼下的星巴克边喝咖啡边看《摄影之友》时，看到外面两个小子在派广告卡。过一阵子后他们坐下来休息，有位看上去像他们老大的老头子竟然给他们烟抽，看他们老少一起抽烟实在有趣，可惜当时没有相机，只能用手机把场景拍下来。后来看到他们还在那边混，赶紧回家拿相机，不久之后又看到那老头子给小孩抽烟，可是小孩却拒绝了。可怜呀，小小年纪就要出来混啦！ Old man offering cigarette to young boy

It wasn’t so long ago that Japanese fashion photographers would not use Japanese models for their top fashion shooting or for promoting luxury goods, they prefer to use western models with caucasian looks instead. That was during the 70s. At that time “Made in Japan” didn’t sound any good as it is today. Then little [...]

Sometime taking good portrait doesn’t require much effort and preparation, sometime great effort and preparation don’t result in good portrait. Last week it just turned out that Mary returned home earlier than usual from a formal party, she was nicely dressed with proper styled hair, so she asked me to take a few photos of [...]

I can’t believe I haven’t written any blog for more than a month, it’s been a crazy month at work… Two weeks ago I went to Nanjing with a few friends, my first time to Nanjing actually. As a once glorious capital of China during the beginning of Ming Dynasty [明朝], and then capital of [...]