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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. Check it out.   Chin Hon's other photo collections and essays are here. He also has ...

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 not have been intended to become a propaganda showpiece, but it certainly did, featuring widely ...

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 this was Hollywood color, but it turns out to be true. Almost. Technically it's more ...

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, where I was living, but sold legally ten minutes up the freeway in Daly City. Every year we ...

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 you're interested in Photography with a capital ''P'' then go here instead.  Roman ...

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 photos in the gallery, but here are a couple for those who just want the digest ...

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 eight meter tall tablet erected during the reign of the Qianlong emperor to commemorate a ...

  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 National Park, near the border of the Sumatra and Jambi ...