As Seen by TV

A good friend of mine had a spare ticket to the F1 Chinese GP, so it was off to the races for me!  Even as a fan of F1 this was only the 3rd race I’ve ever witnessed in person… the last one was Monaco several years ago… so I was excited to having 2 days of INSANE engine noises (those F1 engines are seriously out of this world, if you’ve never heard one, make it point to hit up the nearest GP now!).

And here’s a video I took from the start…… that voice yelling is not me, then again while filming I couldn’t hear a damn thing anyway!

Some daytime shots around Suzhou… a boat trip down the canals and a visit to one of the famous ancient gardens (forgot the name, ha!).  Check out the last pic below to see the fullframe version of the pic above… quite amusing!

ps- Thailand pics coming next!

YO!  Sorry for the hiatus, but I just got back from the Philippines.  Chillin’ hard.

Back to business…. these are some shots from the ancient watertown of Suzhou, China.  From my last post you can see I had to follow a Russian delegation around for a week and half… well, their trip ended in Suzhou, so I got some much needed free time to go out and shoot my own thang.  Holla!

As I mentioned in my last post, I had to follow (and capture) a Russian delegation from Moscow’s Skolkovo business school, on their Executive Exchange program through 3 Chinese cities.  They were a real riot… to say the very least.  The 9-day trip was a packed agenda of visiting companies, government institutions, meetings with high-level executives as well as cultural walks and landmarks.  This is a “best of” selection of the images taken during that trip.

Companies/government institutions visited: Lianhua Group, China Telecom, Huiyuan Juices, Metersbonwe, Zendai Group, Frog Design, Science & Innovation Center, Lenovo, Geely, Xizi Group, Cybernaut Captail Management, Alibaba, Suzhou Government Industrial Park, Suzhou Venture Group, Silikron, Innolight Technologies and Snail Game.

For 9 days in mid-November I had to document an Executive Eduction Tour by a Russian delegation visiting China (more pics on that to follow).  Touring around Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou we visited companies and tourist attractions.  This set of images was taken at a Chinese Opera performance on and in Hangzhou’s mystical West Lake, while it was raining.  It was quite beautiful to say the least.

…and with that I wish you all a HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

…where the real animals are on the wrong side of the fence.

But first a quick note, THE IMAGES BELOW WORK (the thumbnails might not), thanks to the Chinese government for going all hardcore on my internet access, you really do know how to suck.

I have never been so appalled as when I saw how the locals here treated animals at the zoo. Shouting, spitting, slamming against the glass/fence, and throwing anything and everything that wasn’t bolted down at the poor creatures. I watched one girl pour her milk tea all over a bear [see pic], which was quickly followed by everyone having a good laugh… and if that wasn’t enough, she then threw the bottle at him. The Chinese don’t have a word for “please”, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have one for “shame” either.

2 more days I’ll be on my MUCH NEEDED vacation, Vietnam here I come!
Real pho, fo’ real, yo.