Someone asked if there was one place to see all of the header images, which rotate randomly. This is it.

Gulou Dong Dajie is being simultaneously disemboweled and skinned alive, and this has kindled a refurbishment fever in the shops alongside. It's a bit of a nightmare to navigate between piles of sand, stacked paving blocks and workers having a well-deserved smoke. If you turn up around 4 or 5 pm though, as the sun [...]

Couldn't sleep last night, so wandered out at 5am with my new camera and had a walk around Houhai. These are the few photos I was half-way happy with. I'm still getting used to the complexities of an SLR camera, and I keep on finding that I've just taken 50 photos with the ISO, [...]

Due to desperate avoiding of work (a particularly dull translation which requires me to acquire vocabulary like 'slops' and 'cooling tower'), here are 3 photos from a recent trip to the Forbidden City here in Beijing.

Finished a site today which I've been thinking about for months and working on off-and-on for about two weeks, Signese.com. Basically, it's simply a collection of photos featuring Chinese characters, which I take as I wander around Beijing.
Many, if not all, of the photos are not actually very aesthetically pleasing - I'm not a [...]

I went to the China Art Gallery at the weekend. There were some pretty pictures there.
Between the gallery and dinner, I managed to get a few photos of something I've seen quite often before, but never with my camera handy. It's one of the few things I could sit and watch all day. [...]