Fall is hands down my favorite season. Living in western China we rarely experience a typical fall. The altitude, brutally cold climate, and lack of trees conspire together to make Autumn a season that basically doesn’t exist. Skipping fall every year can be a huge bummer. But not this year. The falling leaves, brilliant colors,…
A few of posts back (Lights & Shadows, Colors & Shapes) some folks mentioned that they’d enjoy seeing some of the images in print. I happened to agree. I love printing. Any photographer will tell you that seeing their work in print is always special. Bringing an image from the abstract (often digital) into the concrete world…
Last week my wife and I sat down to watch the Obama/Romney debate. I usually avoid watch these debates because I turn into a cynic (and learn very little). Long story short, I watched it – was pretty much what I expected. One thing that I didn’t see coming was some of the harsh…
I’m continuing with a three part series on a trip I recently took to the QingHai country side of western China. You can check out parts 1 and 2 here: Light & Shadows & Colors & Shapes. For some backstory, see below: Last month I visited GonLung Jampaling Monastery in HuZhu county, QingHai, western China. HuZhu is one of…
I continue to have a great time catching up on the last few months of much-needed editing. Lot’s done. Lot’s more to go. I posted the first part of my series here, called Light & Shadows. Part two is appropriately called ‘Colors & Shapes.’ Just to give you a heads up, here is what’s going…
Two months worth of back editing continues. Last month I visited GonLung Jampaling Monastery in HuZhu county, QingHai, western China. HuZhu is one of the hidden treasures of western China because of it’s vast and varied minority mix – Mongolia, Tibetan, Muslim, Han. Just to give you an idea of how confusing things can get…
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About once a year I head over to one of our cities Daoist/Taoist temples for a visit and a look around. The place is fantastic for so many reasons. Mostly it’s the people amazing people. I’m such a sucker for interacting with people. Religion in western China is a blend of just about everything. For…
Every year I make it down to our local mosque to shoot the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid. One of the things I love about my job is I get to educate western photographers on the cultural makeup of western China. Most think it’s only Tibetans, however, there are huge (really huge)…
In the last post (a long time ago) I made a statement to the effect that things were kind of returning to normal in western China. Since making that statement we’ve seen almost five violent protests in the region – mostly involving flaming bodies, sadly. If you read the news, you’ll know what I’m talking…