June 20, 2022

Cycling Around the Yangshuo Countryside #2

35mm, China, Olympus Trip 35, Svema Color 125 No Comments

These are from a bicycle tour that Sarah & I took around the Yangshuo countryside in China. They were taken with my Olympus Trip 35, and while the Trip 35 is small enough to fit in a coat pocket, it does not fit in the pockets of my shorts. I had to carry it in […]

May 26, 2022

Beijing

35mm, China, Lomography Color 800, Superheadz Ultra Wide & Slim, toy camera No Comments

I believe these were the first two photos I shot when I arrived in Beijing. They were taken in the neighbourhood surrounding the hotel I stayed in.

May 12, 2022

A Market in Yangshuo

35mm, China, Olympus Trip 35, Svema Color 125 No Comments

Sarah and I did a cycling tour around the Yangshuo countryside in 2019 when we went to China. These photos are from a market that we visited that day.

March 24, 2022

Xi’an Muslim Quarter Part 4

35mm, black & white, China, Olympus Trip 35, Street Candy ATM 400 2 Comments

The night market in Xi’an’s Muslim Quarter is every street photographer’s dream. There is so much to see and experience. The entire street is lit up so bright that you can easily shoot with 100 ISO film even though it’s night. I could have spent the entire night snapping pictures had I brought more film […]

March 21, 2022

A Street in Chengdu

35mm, black & white, China, FPP Derev Pan 200, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

Sarah & I wandered down this street one afternoon in Chengdu and we discovered a shop where you could have your name carved in Chinese characters onto a stamp. We thought it would make a great memento of our trip and we bought a matching pair of stamps. I took these photos while we waited.

February 3, 2022

Random Photos Around Xi’an

35mm, black & white, China, Kosmo Foto Mono 100, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

These were all taken around Xi’an — one was taken on a bus, some outside the hotel, and one outside a house.

December 3, 2021

Hong Kong at Night

35mm, China, Hong Kong, Kodak UltraMax 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

Sarah and I happened to be in Hong Kong during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. While we did encounter protests at the airport, we had no such encounters the night before when we wandered around Temple Street. In fact, the Temple Street Night Market was incredibly underwhelming when compared to Xi’an’s Muslim Quarter at night. Xi’an […]

November 15, 2021

The Shanghai Museum

35mm, China, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

These photos are of the escalators and lobby floor in the Shanghai Museum. They are the only photos I was able to take since museums often frown upon photography inside the galleries. I was sitting on the stairs when I looked out across the atrium and instantly knew I had to photograph the criss-cross pattern […]

November 8, 2021

Cultural Entertainment on a Yangtze River Cruise

35mm, China, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

dancers aboard the Victoria Grace (Yangtze River Cruise)

Sarah & I travelled through China in 2019 and part of our travel itinerary included a 3-night/4-day cruise on the Yangtze River aboard a ship named the Victoria Grace. One evening, the crew treated us with a performance of ‘traditional cultural entertainment’ that included dancing, music, and even some magic and comedy. Our lovable humdrum […]

October 11, 2021

A Day in Chengdu

35mm, China, Kodak UltraMax 400, Superheadz Ultra Wide & Slim, toy camera No Comments

Sarah & I travelled to China a few years ago. These photos are from a day we spent in Chengdu. On an overcast day, we visited People’s Park, rowed a boat on the lake, watched an elderly man write poetry on the pavement with water, visited the Wenshu Monastery, and watched with averse fascination as […]

September 23, 2021

Xi’an Overnight Train Part 2

35mm, black & white, China, Kosmo Foto Mono 100, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

These photos were shot on the overnight train to Xi’an. This lovely family, with whom we shared our compartment, spent part of the day putting together a puzzle on their bottom bunk.

September 2, 2021

River Rafting in Yangshuo

35mm, China, Olympus Trip 35, Perutz Primera 100 No Comments

I shot these in Yangshuo, China while doing some river rafting. This was a very touristy thing to do as I’m sure you can tell from the photos. But it was a lot of fun! There were hundreds of boats on the river. Most of them were of the bamboo raft variety. They each seat […]

January 31, 2021

Visiting a Tea Plantation in China

35mm, China, color shift, FPP RetroChrome 160, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

In 2019, when Sarah and I were in China, we had the opportunity to visit a tea plantation in Emeishan. Patrick, our guide, drove us to the home of an old high school friend who was the owner of a tea plantation. Upon arriving, we were kitted out with traditional Chinese conical hats, tea baskets […]

October 31, 2020

Cycling Around the Yangshuo Countryside

35mm, black & white, China, Eastman Double-X 5222 B&W 200, Superheadz Ultra Wide & Slim, toy camera 2 Comments

Yangshuo countryside on Double-X 5222 film

Sarah and I took a bicycle tour around the Yangshuo countryside when we were in China. It was a spectacular day and we had a lot of fun. I shot these with my Superheadz Ultra Wide & Slim loaded with B&W film. I would have prefered colour film, but that was all I had with […]

September 12, 2020

Yangshuo at Night

35mm, black & white, China, Lomography Berlin Kino 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

fish on a stick at the Yangshuo night market in China

The highlight of my trip to China last year had to be the night markets. There is just so much to see and photograph. The streets and restaurant patios are filled with interesting people, while every shop is open with something exciting going on out front. There’s plenty of food, music, and all sorts of […]

June 11, 2020

Beijing Topiary

35mm, China, Kodak ColorPlus 200, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

This photo of a man pruning a topiary is from my first day in China last summer. The area around our hotel in Beijing was pretty nice and I often walked by this topiary on my way to and from the hotel.

June 8, 2020

Water Fight at Ocean Park

35mm, China, Hong Kong, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

audience gets soaked at Ocean Park, Hong Kong

Sarah and I spent a day at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. While wandering through the park, we came across a stage performance with dancers dressed in sailor outfits. It looked interesting so I stuck around to watch and take photos. But when they brought out the water guns, I felt like a little kid […]

April 13, 2020

Guitar Hero

35mm, China, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

I came across this man holding a guitar while walking down the street in Emeishan City. He seemed completely out of place and I was hoping he would play something, but sadly, this ‘Guitar Hero’ never played for us.

April 9, 2020

Emeishan City

35mm, China, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 2 Comments

Sarah and I visited Emeishan City at the base of Mount Emei (aka Emeishan) in August. Mount Emei is one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism in China. We actually spent a few nights at Baoguo Temple (aka Baoguosi) and spent a day hiking up Mount Emei-–which was like climbing the world’s longest flight […]

February 23, 2020

Wandering Shanghai’s Old City

35mm, China, Kodak Portra 400, Olympus Trip 35 No Comments

When Sarah & I were in Shanghai, we spent the day wandering the Yuyuan Garden and the surrounding Bazaar. I snapped most of these photos as we walked through the streets of the Old City on our way to the Bund.

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