Shanghai Tan

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last month I took a trip to Xi’an, Shaanxi province, at the central north of China. Visiting China without seeing Xi’an is like going to Egypt but haven’t seen the pyramids, or going to Cambodia but not seeing the Ankor wats. I’ve always wanted to visit Xi’an since my first time visiting China at 2004. [...]

Last Sunday I went to see the A1GP race at Shanghai International Circuit with a colleague. This is the same circuit that the Formula 1 uses. I never shoot car racing photo before, so I thought maybe it’d be fun to try. I brought my Canon 5D and 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens along with the [...]

I finally win a prize in a photo contest, the first one in my life! Last month I went to the Century Park for the ume exposition, took many photos there. Then coincidentally I went to the website of the park and saw the online photo contest. Since I was quite satisfied with my photos, [...]

I normally don’t post other authors’ photos on this blog, so that I can show off my own photos and at the same time proving that I am the best! But with every rule there is always an exception, sometime I run into photos that I can’t resist at bringing it up here, maybe so [...]