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It has been 27 weeks since my last entry, which I guess is a long time!
A few things have happened in this last while so it seems appropriate to update this thing finally.
I won the 2009 Carl Zeiss Photo Contest. The theme was pulse of the city and a photo I took in the back alley of some street in Chongqing won first prize. 300 some participants from 39 countries took place in the competition this year and I am very happy to have won. Oh yes the prize….a free Carl Zeiss lens of my choice. Results can be seen here: www.zeiss.com/photo and here: www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9…
I have decided not to study for my graduate's degree this next school year. While a master of something would be nice, the school here does not have anything I am interested in, I need to work and make some money or go broke, and I have been here in backwater Chongqing for more than 5 years now and I think a change of venue might be nice. Maybe Hong Kong…or wherever there is work to be had. I think a change of area would be stimulating for my photography and mind as well.
I recently bought a Panasonic G1 as a replacement for my dying Ricoh GRD which has over 20,000 pictures on the dial. It is a nice camera, not so great at high ISO but a competent small carry around when a Canon 5D is just too much to have without a huge loss of image quality.
I have done a few photo projects in the past months though my non photography related job keeps me from really being able to finish them off because I come back home everyday so drained I don't want to look at a photo let alone pick up a camera.
The girlfriend is doing well, she opened her own studio for drawing and painting, last month she made more money than I did! We have been talking about taking a trip in a few months, a few places for ideas: Vietnam, Cambodia, or less likely America. I have not been back home to the states in 2 years so it would be nice to go sit in nature for a few weeks, though she would just want to buzz around Seattle shopping and visiting galleries. We will see.
A few things have happened in this last while so it seems appropriate to update this thing finally.
I won the 2009 Carl Zeiss Photo Contest. The theme was pulse of the city and a photo I took in the back alley of some street in Chongqing won first prize. 300 some participants from 39 countries took place in the competition this year and I am very happy to have won. Oh yes the prize….a free Carl Zeiss lens of my choice. Results can be seen here: www.zeiss.com/photo and here: www.zeiss.com/c12567a8003b58b9…
I have decided not to study for my graduate's degree this next school year. While a master of something would be nice, the school here does not have anything I am interested in, I need to work and make some money or go broke, and I have been here in backwater Chongqing for more than 5 years now and I think a change of venue might be nice. Maybe Hong Kong…or wherever there is work to be had. I think a change of area would be stimulating for my photography and mind as well.
I recently bought a Panasonic G1 as a replacement for my dying Ricoh GRD which has over 20,000 pictures on the dial. It is a nice camera, not so great at high ISO but a competent small carry around when a Canon 5D is just too much to have without a huge loss of image quality.
I have done a few photo projects in the past months though my non photography related job keeps me from really being able to finish them off because I come back home everyday so drained I don't want to look at a photo let alone pick up a camera.
The girlfriend is doing well, she opened her own studio for drawing and painting, last month she made more money than I did! We have been talking about taking a trip in a few months, a few places for ideas: Vietnam, Cambodia, or less likely America. I have not been back home to the states in 2 years so it would be nice to go sit in nature for a few weeks, though she would just want to buzz around Seattle shopping and visiting galleries. We will see.
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Enjoying being back in Seattle again.
Reinventing
Professional photography is sort of like owning a restaurant....I guess, I dont really know what it is like to own a restaurant but I do have a wife that cant stand to eat the same thing twice a year so I guess what I mean is you always have to be reinventing what you do, adding new dishes to the menu, and as I start to do such additions to expand the work that we do here I find myself more and more interested in different types of photography that I had not really considered in the past.
For instance I was never really interested in macro work until a client needed some super up close detail photos. I was never really interested in taking p
Infrared Obsessions
Work work work. Working as a professional photographer is very time consuming. So everything gets set aside while work and what not takes over.
So much of the photo work I do now is for big clients and has been interesting but it leaves no time for personal photo stuff. Which now where I find myself with a little time between projects I find myself both mountain biking around China and taking up a interest in infrared photos. Something for fun and a change of pace. Nice.
Whats up
So it has been a year since my last journal entry. I never get around to playing with deviant art much. The last year has been work, strange projects, getting married, moving into the new place her and I bought, looking for more work, making money, trying to make more money, and then trying not to let that money disappear.
Wangyi and I bought and apartment, a mere 50 square meters. I took the shell of the place and completely redesigned it. Naturally nothing was where I wanted it, including the walls so most of it all went. Now the house is open and wide feeling, and I make it so there was a large area of the wall could be a balcony and the
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Congratulations on your win.
Chongqing to Hong Kong would be quite a dramatic change of scenery. I'm sure your street-photo skills would still result in some great images wherever you go! Best of luck.
Chongqing to Hong Kong would be quite a dramatic change of scenery. I'm sure your street-photo skills would still result in some great images wherever you go! Best of luck.