Emily's Escapades » Photography http://blog.emilyminor.com Life in Shanghai, China Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Shoes http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/06/04/shoes/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/06/04/shoes/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:39 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=2586

These shoes were lined up in the window of a big house in the botanical gardens in Kunming.  It looked like a lot of workers lived there.  A lot of the gardens themselves were very dry and not in bloom, but I think this photo made the trip out there worth it!

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2010/06/04/shoes/feed/ 0 52 Weeks, 52 Streets – Anhua Lu http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/12/31/52-weeks-52-streets-anhua-lu/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/12/31/52-weeks-52-streets-anhua-lu/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:33 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=2019

This year I am going to do a photography book.  It will be “52 Weeks, 52 Streets.” (or something similar.)  Each week, I’m going to take photos of a small street in Shanghai.  I just went out and did Anhua Lu.  Next will be Anfu Lu or Anren Lu.  I’ll go down the alphabet and concentrate on streets in the Jing’An, Old Town and French Concession areas.  At the end of the year I should have a nice coffee-table book!

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The day Dan left for Australia, we agreed to meet for a burger and milkshake.  I figured he wouldn’t be done packing, so I headed to his place.  He thought we were meeting at Johnny Moo’s…  so I waited for a while until he came back to his apartment.  I amused myself by taking some photos.  The “quality” of jobs here is just amazing. They just slop the paint everywhere (like on the electric boxes and window sills) and just left a paint brush in a bucket of paint (now dried.)  My dad would have been very upset at me if I’d done that….

IMG_4640I did take one semi-creative self-portrait though!

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/11/30/crappy-construction/feed/ 1 The new best lightning photo http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/27/new_best_lightning/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/27/new_best_lightning/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:34:44 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=1196 I thought it was special to get lightning shots before, but it’s actually not that hard.  Basically, you keep the shutter open and hope a bolt appears in at least a few photos.

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This one hit really close.  This photo is not Photoshopped (well, basic levels and cloning out some dust.)

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Close up, lightning looks just awesome!  You can see little white particles of energy all around in the air.

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Who said lightning never strikes in the same place twice?  I have two photos of it hitting the Pearl TV Tower now, and saw it happen close-up another time.

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This is a composite of five different photos.

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You can see that each one is hitting a building!

More lightning photos to be posted tomorrow.

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/26/more_lightning/feed/ 0 WOW – BIG CHANGE! http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/13/new-blog/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/13/new-blog/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:45:27 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=4 Yes, this is really Emily’s Escapades!

I’ve moved my blog to WordPress.  It is supposed to be a much more robust program.  I think I’ll like it!

Please check back in a couple days. I don’t have everything moved over and linked correctly and formatted how I want it just yet.  Do let me know if you like the new look though!

]]> http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/13/new-blog/feed/ 3 Jon’s photos from Hangzhou http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/04/jons-photos-from-hangzhou/ http://blog.emilyminor.com/2009/08/04/jons-photos-from-hangzhou/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:11:00 +0000 emily http://blog.emilyminor.com/?p=808




Jon is a pretty good photographer too! He has learned a lot about composition and tricks to get good photos with his point and shoot. All of these photos are his.

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It was nice to have Mr. Fan take some photos of us together… we almost never have photos together! We’re too busy taking photos ourselves.

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