A lot of text, lately, on this blog, so I’ll keep this brief. This is a picture I took after some rain in downtown San Francisco. This is Maiden Lane, near Union Square, a stretch of high-end boutiques and shops. A pair of opera singers used to set up at one end and sing, but [...]
It’s fun to take pictures from high up. A few years ago, a friend working as a wedding planner let me roam around the top floor of the Bank of America building as she set up someone’s wedding ceremony. These were the best sustained views of San Francisco I’ve ever had. In the picture above, [...]
The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley has published my tutorial on Geotagging and Mapping Photos. In it, I go through a set of steps on how to assign location data to images shot on a digital camera and how to use the results to put the images in an online map. The KDMC [...]
This is Mr. Lu. He is a farmer. He lives in a village in northeastern China. He has traveled throughout the country but his favorite part is this little valley. His family has been here for centuries. These are his cattle: Every morning he takes his cattle out to graze, then brings them back around [...]
China Boom Times: Life in China’s Coal Country China is portrayed as a land of glittering “instant” cities. But the economy that is driving the country’s growth is powered by coal. A look behind the curtain in China’s primary coal-producing region. The United States Fall of the Wild: The Drakes Bay Oyster Farm A controversy [...]
They’ve made the rounds, but in case you missed them, here are a few wedding photos taken during and just after the earthquake. More here.
Sorry for the delay on the India photos, for those who’ve been asking. I hope now that the FLW project is done (will believe it when I see it), will have time to take care of all the India, Shanxi, Liaoning stuff. As for the above picture, my understanding is that this building exists purely [...]
So there’s a story related to this picture. Actually, the story I’m telling is about the village where this boy lives. It’s the reason why I’ve embargoed all of my photos from China last August. Check Frontline/World tomorrow (Thursday, the last day of January) and you’ll see what I mean. _uacct = “UA-2461583-1″; urchinTracker();
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