In China, old people have three past times, and all of them involve the same thing, sitting around.

The first is sitting around with friends drinking tea and talking, the second is sitting around with friends gambling, the third is sitting around. People all around like to sit around and be lazy, but the old people usually like to do it in public where they are subject to nosey photographers and the sun.

Been shooting a lot of medium format black and white film lately, just sort of playing around while I try to aquatint myself more with the shooting style. Been using a TTL camera made by some unknown Chinese camera (used - $20) manufacturer named Eastar which is very similar to the Seagull TTL cameras produced here. Also been using a cheap brand of black and white film called Lucky which is the choice of photography students here because its cheap (a 120 roll costs 6 rmb or about 70 cents) but the negatives are very easily scratched...either way its good fun. I also noticed that in all of my photos there are areas of the photo that have a strange line pattern going on, this is the lens of the camera being funky and cheap.

Eastar 6x6 Medium Format TTL camera, 75mm f3.5 lens, Lucky black and white 100 film