Ahh, dumplings with peanut and soy sauce for breakfast. This place would not rate above a C in California and I have no idea how old the cloth in the bottom of the steam trays was but the service was friendly, the food good and the company was excellent. 12RMB fed four of us for breakfast daily, that's roughly $1.85USD. Of course we did bring our own water but when a case of 24 was ~$4USD that doesn't add much to the cost.

This was a 'grab' shot that existed for all of about 10 seconds when our hosts sister walked up and stood next to her. I would have liked to meter better but I saw it, framed it and got two shots off before the situation changed. Shutter was slow so I even with IS it ended up a single useful frame. I really like the shot though.

Taken in a street market in China this fall, I really love the overall feel of this image. I am putting together a gallery of offerings from the trip that will help support future travel efforts. I'll add a link when I get the portal online. All the shots from the trip were shot with available light and my 5D. It was a challenge but the 5D AWB is AWESOME, personally I think it's better than my 1DMIII.

Forever getting sucked into high contrast, I love dark backgrounds when using my lighting although getting some egg crates would definitely help with my spill management. This was a first attempt at mimicking a favorite shot of my friend Duane's that he took of his daughter.

Sometimes the stress of shooting just gets to me so I have to think of new and innovative ways to express my frustration. EJ helps this with an experiment in exposure management using a couple of soft boxes and seeing just how much fun we can have with them.