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The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 8:16 AM by will
An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, Read More...
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Good photo essay on the Three Gorges

Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:04 AM by will
My friend Chua Chin Hon, a journalist and photographer, has posted an excellent photo essay on the Three Gorges area, including photos he has taken over the past several years. Chin Hon has a good eye and has included some excellent notes on the photographs. Read More...
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Scandalous death of a propaganda image

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:42 PM by will
The Wall Street Journal has an article (subscription - alternate links below) that nicely retells the story of the fake photo scandal currently sweeping the Chinese Internet. Taken (and doctored) by professional photographer Liu Weiqing, the photo may Read More...
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The Chinese have a lot of hells: Photos from a temple fair

Posted Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:57 PM by will
People of my age who are fond of schlocky movies may remember the John Carpenter/Kurt Russel classic, "Big Trouble in Little China". In that movie the Chinese sidekick tells our hero in a moment of peril, "the Chinese have a lot of hells". I always thought Read More...
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Armageddon in my neighborhood: Photos and video from Chinese New Year in Beijing

Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:14 AM by will
When Imagethief was a lad he was (as his father will gladly tell you) something of a pyro. I always looked forward to the fourth of July, Independence Day, when fireworks are traditionally set off in the United States. They were banned in San Francisco, Read More...
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Family photos from Italy

Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:21 AM by will
For friends and family (or stalkers, if I have any), here are the family shots of my recent trip Italy in a public Facebook album. I'm too lazy to use the nastier gallery software in my blog engine today. These are all goofy family holiday snaps, so if Read More...
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Pretentious, arty photos from Italy

Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 7:12 AM by will
Here is a gallery of some of the photos I took in Rome, Fiumicino and around Tuscany (and the slightly slicker Facebook gallery of same photos). Note that the thumbnails in the gallery are cropped for some reason I cannot change right now. There are 27 Read More...
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Video from the Lion City

Posted Saturday, July 21, 2007 4:44 AM by will
I've uploaded to YouTube a short clip from the underwater video I shot a year ago while diving in Qiandaohu, in Zhejiang province, on the Lion City. Lion City was flooded in 1959 when the Xin'an River was dammed. Most of the shots are of carvings on an Read More...
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Photos from Sumatra's Kerinci Seblat National Park

Posted Sunday, May 13, 2007 6:51 AM by will
Danau Gunung Tujuh (Mt. Tujuh Lake) Imagethief in the forest Sungei Penuh kids Complete photo gallery Imagethief spent the Mayday holiday backpacking in Indonesia with an old friend who lives in Singapore. Our destination was the remote Kerinci Seblat Read More...
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