Since my visit to China, and specifically here in PingHu, was very brief, very much a cultural snapshot, a brief slice of time. Thus, I was unable to tell by looking at this family owned business, which came first, the development of the industrial park, or were they just lucky that the government did not allow their small factory... Continue Reading →

While wandering around in this new industrial complex that was recently built in PingHu, I found this room. It was a large room in size, not neccessarily in height, part of a clean room area for future medical device assembly. The Chinese have a number of windows in their facilities, but they are usually masked with... Continue Reading →

What I am realizing is that my series Open During Construction (Zhao Chang Ying Ye) is getting a little more complex than some of my earlier work as it relates to scope. Most of my earlier projects were united under a theme and althought they did change over time, but remained realitivly one dimensional. I had an... Continue Reading →

I thought that this made a better blog title than quit being lazy! I have found that as I work a series of photographs, I have been doing some shortcut evaluations and not really taking the images to where I can fully evaluate them. Such that I was going from camera, to RAW editor, to Photoshop... Continue Reading →

  I diffenently have many moments of becoming the 'Charlie Brown' of photography, when the thoughts Make up your mind, Douglas! come roaring into my head when it comes to editing my photographs. Case in point is this image, Sign of the Times, that I made on the road into PingHu. One of the many new city signs... Continue Reading →

I have started working on the development of my second Edtioned Folio, which will be 15 images from my series Bad Trip - Sad Trip. As to a book version of this series, after wafling back and forth so many times, I feel compfortable that the series was well represented in LensWork and the entire... Continue Reading →

After writing yesterday about needing to have some wiggle room in a self-assigned series, it did get me to thinking about two other series that I was working on, specificily A Sideways Glance and Transitional Seam. For both of these series, I am photographing a specific area of Riverside County. And I am finding that one of these two... Continue Reading →

For those not reading Mandarin characters, the pinyin title is Zhou Chang Ying Yeh, the Chinese title for my project Open During Construction. The phrase roughly means that the business is open as usual, which provides me with some more ambiguity and room for creative interpretation of where I want to work on this series. I have been back and... Continue Reading →