In China I often woke up quite early and I snapped this one morning before everyone else had started waking up. Curiously enough I got a very compliment on the OTP podcast from both Bill and Jeffery which was quite gratifying though I’m not totally sure what made this stand out much more some of my other stuff which almost never catch their eye in the podcast. In any case, I do the assignment for myself and the group dialog…and a nice warm bed sure is comfortable, even if you have to get out of it to shoot it.

of course sometimes you need the large sensor of an SLR….though I’ve forced Bokeh on the iphone before…though never via the selfie stick I don’t think.

Grandma’s Dining Table

this series is also courtesy of the selfie stick. The front facing camera sucks, but the payoff of extreme perspectives is well worth the tradeoff at times.

a couple windows from China, one being the view from my bed, the other in line for roasted chestnuts.

Sometimes when mulling an assignment you stumble across just the right place. Even so, I still end up shooting the heck out of it. I grew up with film but I got into photography after digital so I’m not good with limited shot counts.

This is a wall for a school outside aunt’s apartment in Hangzhou.

Breakfast.

There was a certain frustration with this China trip because we managed to pick about three straight weeks of rain out of the four we were there. But then again, where could we really go with a 19 month old? Aside from maybe picking up some buns in the morning, our morning routine was a big pile of steamed yams and corn, which our daughter absolutely loved to eat.

I went digging around Grandma’s little enclosed porch and back yard for a couple shots.

The place itself wasn’t new per se, since it was in between a supermarket and TJ Maxx we frequent…but this was the first time we actually walked between the two places.

I was surprised at how nice the light was with just a single desk lamp in that shot of my wife’s origami hobby.