This might be my favorite Dallas cityscape image so far.

Life compensates, it is said. So after two days’ rain, we got the most beautiful sunset and dusk. Too bad I spent too much time on the road and got lost for a while. Should have walked more than driven. Imaes in this post copyrighted by DMN.





Too bad the assignment is not about the festival of color, but about a boring table set up at a corner of where the festival happens. Just couldn’t help it and spent much more time photographing the color than the table:(
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Got an assignment to photograph a politician on my first day of work at DMN. What really attracted was the ridiculousness of politics. And it happened a black curtain was put up in a corridor. What an coincidence! Because… politics = behind the curtain. Of course, this is not something the paper would publish.

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A friend of mine, who is sick of snow, asks, “what do you mean by “sunny and warm?” And I answer with these snapshots of White Rock Lake. Sunny and warm means you go out and take a walk with your dog, bike around the lake, swim in the not too chilly water like the wild ducks, dance in the air like the birds…or simply roam around and enjoy everything happening around you - just like I did this afternoon. White Rock Lake is only five minutes away from where I live. Are you jealous now, Tom?






Chinese Near Year’s Day, also Valentine’s Day. We made a brief trip to Old Man’s Cave, roamed in the snow, and drove home in the sunset. We had a good day, a good beginning for the Year of Tiger.

一个梦:
我的拇指甲飞速地长,形成贝壳的形状,然后脱落。一个贝壳脱落后,新的又长出来。
过了一些日子,又做了一个奇怪的梦:
街市上有一具男人的尸体。一群人用九牛二虎之力把那尸体抬去焚烧。我好奇地观看。当人群散去,我看见那个尸体盘腿坐在离地面两米高的空中。他的四周是灰色的骨灰形成的环。那环像环绕佛像的那种,但没有光,没有色彩,是骨灰,灰色的。他似乎在微笑。
A loner for a long time and living by myself for several years, I almost forgot the word roommates till recently, when I have two great roommates. They drag me off my computer and get me to eat and drink and enjoy life, even to go to the mall… So here are two snapshots I took while I went out with them.


I pretty much get stuck to my laptop - till mid or late February. Though I try to shoot, I am limited to photographing my apartment.
My roommate, Ning, enthusiatically bought lots of stuff to decorate her new home when she first moved in, including this curtain, which reminds me of a little girls’ summer skirt.

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