Shanghai Tan

Mount Sanqingshan [三清山] is a very special mountain located at the north part of Jiangxi province, roughly 200km away from the much more famous Huangshan [黄山] mountain in Anhui province.  At the end of March, Max, Miles and I travelled together to visit this mountain for the first time. We took the train to the [...]

As the first long trip of 2009, we hesitated between Guilin and Lijiang. I asked a colleague who came from Guilin, she told me that end of February isn’t pretty at Guilin because the paddle fields are still yellow instead of green. Then I asked around and everyone seemed to tell me that Yunnan is [...]

A gallery inside the Tianzifang [田子坊] alley is where I first saw a photo of Fujian Tulou [福建土楼] a year ago. It picked my curiosity very much because of the round shape large scale building and the contrast of gray roof tile with omnipresent red lantern. At that time I never thought of going to [...]

Every new year break is a moment of reflection and self evaluation, as well as a moment of day dreaming of wishes for the coming year. After a tragic year 2008, I suppose everyone’s wish is to recover from the deep hole, be it physical or financial. The same applies to me who dropped into [...]

I’ve been observing air quality and visibility at Shanghai for the past couple of months, trying to find a moment where I can go out and take some wonderful shots of Shanghai skycraper. Here’s a collection of some shots taken during December 2008. Click here to see the whole album.

After a failed attempt to organize a team building trip to Anji [安吉], I decided to go there by myself two weeks ago, actually with Ctrip tour [携程]. The Anji region is famously known in China as the capital of bamboo, but since China produces the best and most of the bamboo in the world, [...]

Although it might appear, from the absence of blog post during July and August, that I was sticking my ass to the office chair during the whole Summer, it was actually not exactly the case. I did have a few outings during Summer, though short but still worth while. The last activity was about the [...]

At the mid-August, I took a weekend trip to a small island at Shandong province, called Lingshan island, with 2 colleagues and many friends. It was one of those cheap fare trip, tour bus, villagers’ room, local food and very basic toilet with no practical shower. But it was fun exactly because of the lack [...]

Since my first day to China, I’ve always wanted to shoot lotus, since there was no lotus at North America. At beginning of August I went to Century Park for a short photo session. I was expecting lotus and sunflower, but it turned out I was too late, sunflowers were being cut down that day. [...]

Last month I was pleased to participate in an outdoor model photography session organized by IBM Photo Club. We went to Shanghai Daning Lingshi Park [上海大宁灵石公园] with around 50 IBMers. There were 6 models hired by the organizer, I guess 2 of them are semi-professionals, while 4 others are simply amateurs who might feel that [...]