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Before They Wake up~ Boracay 

The stillness, soft light, undisturbed water, the lone human… the reasons to wake up before they all do.

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Xitang~ An Old Water Town

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A  90 minute drive from the bustling Shanghai Metropolis, lies one of several old water towns where life carries on with a completely different rhythm. Water has this way of slowing things life down to a gentle meander, and it magically transforms reality into gentler ripples of dream like visions. Blue and soft in nature, it allows for a place in oneself of deep contemplation. The old walls seem as thought they are speaking to the visitors, telling tales of times that have been and predicting the tales that will inevitable come to be.

All images taken with iphone 7, edited with snapseed.

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Beirut: Impressions on the Run

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the certain nature of uncertainty
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when the mask drops
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The urban spirit
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when you have seen more than your share
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tales of fading glory
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on the road for handouts
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a page from the Beirut sketchbook
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sleepless nights and random sketches
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some stories are best left vague
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his imaginary girlfriend
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time to leave
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opening act
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non-stop protest
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Beirut nights

Beirut, beautiful, sophisticated, artsy, dirty, confused, decadent, mismanaged and always pulls on my every hidden emotion.

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the color of rain~ China

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With rain in China comes color, like fireworks on New Year’s, the umbrellas adorn the streets like confetti, I wait for the rain…

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a process inside a process~ why do I edit my photos?

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love is like oxygen
another year about to fly by
another year about to fly by
smiling at her future
smiling at her future
the big church
the big church
stepping into a story
stepping into a story
stretching the truth
stretching the truth

When I edit my photos, I set in motion a whole new process that allows me to see beyond the actual image. I begin to feel emotions and to imagine worlds that the image open doors to. So my initial photograph becomes a key, a starter and a catalyst to a brand new process. I leave myself open to what the moment suggests, what level of contrast it wants, what degree of clarity or blur, saturation or absence of color, and what lines to highlight, and inside of all this (which sometimes takes not longer than a few minutes), a new image is born, one that is layered with sketches of imagination and brush strokes of feeling. I attempt through that to marry the past with the now in anticipation of the art that might wish to join my future.

 

Wishing all my readers and subscribers a wonderful and inspired new year.

All above images were taken with an iPhone during my recent trip to New Zealand and edited with phone apps.

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The inevitable change

secrets in the rain~ Shanghai
secrets in the rain~ Shanghai
once upon a rainy day~ Shanghai
once upon a rainy day~ Shanghai
fall games~ Shanghai
fall games~ Shanghai
fall mosaics~ Shanghai
fall mosaics~ Shanghai
legends of the fall~ Shanghai
legends of the fall~ Shanghai

Every year at about the same time in November a new wind blows in Shanghai bringing with it the promise of a heartless winter to come. But there is so much to love about the way the fall forces itself on summer, not offering any apologies, simply making a bold statement, stripping the trees of their leaves, forcing us all to alertness and away from the laziness of summer warmth.

 

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fleeting moments~

on holiday in her own mind~ Tokyo
on holiday in her own mind~ Tokyo
Rendezvous with life~ Shanghai
Rendezvous with life~ Shanghai
softly speaking~Tokyo
softly speaking~Tokyo
the winds of change~ Shanghai
the winds of change~ Shanghai

Those fleeting moments that catch us; we choose to hold on to them; to encapsulate them in an image; the scenes that we freeze before they dissolve into the stream of flowing,moving life…

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Pingyao moments~

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Pingyao, an ancient town in the Shanxi province of China, completely walled, preserved and authentic looking, is home to the yearly Pingyao photography festival where thousands of photographer meet. I visited for 3 days as 2 of my photographs were curated and  included in a show there and during the last 2 days, it rained endlessly setting a beautiful mood for photography. I walked and walked, got drenched and took some photos that I will treasure for always.

all the time in the world~ Pingyao

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We meet ourselves in the least expected places

and we are quite often surprised
and we are quite often surprised at what we see

This image is part of an iphone photography collection I just posted as a separate page on this blog. I have been finding such great freedom in street photography making use of the iphone and finding new creative ways every day for capturing the world around me. Please visit the new page when you have time~ I will be updating it regularly