Monthly:April 2010

New Weekend Workshops for May Announced

We are delighted to announce our upcoming workshops for May 2010! We have two workshops planned, “Shoot-Edit-Photoshop” and “Beijing Desert Workshop”. We hope each one will cater to whatever you current goals in photography may be. Please find the initial outlines below. For more details and detailed itineraries, please head to our Workshop page (via the tab at the top-right of the blog) .  We look forward to seeing you on one of our upcoming classes! “Shoot-Edit-Photoshop” – Dates: Saturday 15th May 2010 […]

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Earth Hour Competition: We Have a Winner!

Last week I posted the first competition for my blog, based on the recent video that I shot to coincide with Earth Hour here in Beijing. If you missed the video, you can watch it here on Vimeo or YouTube. The challenge was to find me within the video, walking in front of the camera. Sounds easy huh? Yes, except for the fact the that the video is time-lapse and condenses the whole earth hour into one minute, hence making […]

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China’s Growing Sands in National Geographic China

[vimeo width=”580″ height=”300″]https://vimeo.com/10864307[/vimeo] I am delighted to announce here on my blog that this month’s issue of National Geographic China contains a 12-page essay of my images and text, about my Pulitzer Center-sponsored work on “China’s Growing Sands”. This is a wonderful opportunity to reach out to a new audience in China and bring wider attention to the issue of desertification, which is gripping the north of the nation. I considered just posting photographs of the layout here as a […]

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Win a Free Workshop!

[vimeo width=”580″ height=”300″]https://vimeo.com/10718110[/vimeo] Earlier this week I released a video titled ‘Earth Hour: In One Minute’, a time-lapse video that captured last month’s Earth Hour at the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing. I thought it would be fun to use this video as the basis for the first competition that I have run through the blog. Up for grabs is a half-day (3hours) one-on-one workshop with me here in Beijing. Maybe you’d like to brush up on your editing, your […]

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Earth Hour In One Minute | Time-lapse Video

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKS4nUsQMxc[/youtube] Double click window above to watch up to HD 1080p on YouTube Last weekend, I was sat at home wondering how I could test out my recently purchased Canon 7D. I had been waiting to get this camera for a while as it has video capabilities and comes at a relatively affordable price, compared to most high-end camcorders. I had seen the quality of videos that the camera could produce and I was keen to get my hands on […]

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