I had dinner atop the Oriental Pearl Tower on my last night in China and hoped to finally get that dusk shot I’d been waiting for. Not only was it threatening rain, but I had learned the night before when trying to shoot the skyline that most of the buildings were not lit until about [...]

Hopes for the sparkling twilight or early morning skyline shot of Shanghai dimmed on the morning of my last day in China when I awoke to more overcast skies. Still, a cab ride down to the riverfront couldn’t hurt. If there’s no sunrise, surely there will still be something to shoot. The color that was [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that my main goal on this trip to the Shanghai region of China was to get a good, iconic skyline shot of the Oriental Pearl Tower and the recently developed Pudong area. I showed a photo of two nearby skyscrapers — currently the tallest in China — with a [...]

I ran across a link to the New York Times’ feature, Obama’s People on John Nack’s blog this morning. I really feel like these portraits show a government “of the people”. Check ‘em out and watch the “behind the scenes” as well. What a production it must have been to generate this seemingly simple series [...]

I still have a few more photos from China that I want to share before my next trip begins on the 1st of February. This is a shot of two of the tallest buildings in China — part of Shanghai’s Pudong new development area. This area has sprung up from nothing in the last two [...]

Here it is, 2009. Where did the time go? 2008 was an amazing year for me, filled with plenty of travel — even though we swore we would cut back so that we could buy a new house. While we did buy a house, move, and sell the old one, we didn’t do a very [...]