Kitty Cat
at Fuzhou Airport.
Kitty Cat
during our final days in the temporary apartment we stayed at in Fuzhou after
we sold our house.
Kitt Cat
cutting up cardboards and styrofoam to pack fragile items with.
Kitty Cat
packing up our clothes for the big move back to California.
Kitty cat
threatening my life with a butcher knife.
Kitty Cat
making the moving list of all of our items.
Kitty
Cat about to head out for one of her mind-blowingly frustrating meetings at
the restaurant. Having witnessed the kind of crap she deals with as a co-owner
of a restaurant, I can only conclude that for some people hell must be a giant
restaurant where the cooks are tempermental prima donnas, the busboys are
morons, the waiters are irresponsible jerks, the cashiers are gossip mongers,
the managers are incompetent lying egomaniacs, the customers are violent,
and the other co-owners are...well, they could be reading this.
Kitty Cat
going through her daily newspaper session--one of her favorite things .
The
sun was setting, and Kitty Cat was trying on a new camisole and robe. I saw
the red silky stuff, glanced at the the setting sun outside and said, "Get
yer ass out on the balcony--we're going to shoot a little session." These
photos are technically half-way between a formal session and a Kitty Cat Diary
entry. It's more thought out in terms of photography, because I brought out
a big oval reflector, paid more attention to aperture/exposure settings (whereas
I usually just wing it for casual shooting), and she was more or less posing
strictly for the camera. But it's not really a serious session because we didn't
bother with fine makeup or even iron the camisole (you can clearly see the fold
creases). Also, if this had been a serious session, I'd have brought out the
entire lighting rig for more sophisticated fill-light, so basically this is
just us goofing off. You can see tell clearly which shots used the gold side
of the reflector, and which ones used the silver side.
April
Kitty Cat
at the local foreigner's Exit & Entry Adminisration, extending my residential
permit.
Kitty
Cat traveling by taxi. I don't usually go out with the Sigma 12-24 unless I
know I'll be needing an ultra-wide lens, but on that day I decided to use it
as a walkaround lens. On the longer end, you can actually shoot without much
distortion if you're careful. The wider end is so nice for getting in the entire
surrounding. I should use it as a walkaround lens more.
Kitty
Cat at Shangri-la hotel--currently the nicest five-star hotel in Fuzhou. The
food's way too expensive, but it is the best by far in this backwater city.
2001-2003
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-- 2006 -- 2007 -- 2008