From a window display inside the China World Mall, the first of many upscale malls which now can be found around Beijing.
Although this was just a quick snap with the back camera of my iPhone 6, I spent a lot of time developing it with Lightroom, including removing reflections from the display glass and those pesky wires holding the tutu in place. (If I knew how to use Photoshop, I might’ve also removed the pedestal.)
Bicycle and Mercedes-Benz GLK 300.
Taken two days ago outside our closest traditional Beijing restaurant.
It is snowing right now. In a few minutes, we’ll be “trekking” the long block or so needed to get there. Lao Lao and Lao Zu have gone ahead to get seats.
I like it when it snows during Spring Festival… a nice juxtaposition of snowfall amidst the din of firecrackers.
Taking advantage of the beautiful winter weather (blue skies and low air pollution) that Beijing had New Year’s Day, we took Chong Chong out to a local park.
I’ve gone back to this photo many times in the month and half since I took it. I felt like it’d end-up being black and white from the beginning (even though it was a beautiful blue-sky day). Most of the time was spent on cropping and removing distractions from the shot. Today’s final tweaks were with the grain… there was almost none in the original shot.
Continuing with pictures from the hike.
I don’t have any details about this structure.
The image is a stitch of three shots joined together using Photoshop. It was developed using Lightroom.
