Shanghai Tan

See the Autumn @ Lujiazui album here.

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.

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 [...]

It’s been exactly a year since my last visit to hometown Montreal, and I’m about to return for another visit next Monday. I’ve been working at IBM Shanghai — precisely IBM China Systems & Technology Labs (CSTL) — for a year and a half now. I’m starting to forget how it was like to work [...]

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. [...]

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

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 [...]

After a long year of waiting and waiting and waiting for the next generation of Canon EOS 5D to come out, I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy the 5D last week, at a very good price of ~2000$CA, no tax! When it was announced at Autumn 2005 the price was 3400$, so [...]

Plum blossom (Prunus mume) is a special kind of flower, not only can it survive winter, but it needs coldness to blossom. This particular characteristic gives it a unique status among the flower lovers, especially Chineses, for its persistence in the hard and cold weather. I just think that the English name plum blossom is [...]

In Chinese traditional holidays, first there is the Spring Festival [春节] held at the 1st January of the Lunar calendar where people celebrate with fireworks and firecracker (the whole night!); then at the 5th there is the ceremony to welcome the God of Prosperity [迎财神], with fireworks and firecracker again; and finally as a closure [...]