For the past two months, I have been in extensively  researching into Italy. I am headed to Italy for the very first time this Thursday and as always I want to make the most of this trip. As, its high tourism season, we have decided to stay away from the typical locations. The only large city we are going to… Read More

Nothing makes me more excited than photographing passion. To have the honor of capturing someone’s life work, something that they are so incredibly proud of, is to me what photography is all about. The purpose of photography is to capture a snippet in time, those stories that often do not make into the headlines. While in Crete, we had the opportunity… Read More

This is the first post of several for my trip to the Greek Island of Crete earlier this year. Social media is such a scary beautiful beast. On the one hand it is wonderfully amazing, connecting people that might otherwise never meet. And on the other hand it is, at least to me, so strange and a little bit scary… Read More

I have been lucky enough to do quite a bit of traveling in the last couple months. First back to my home province of Sichuan and most recently to the Greek island of Crete to teach a photography workshop and so this little space has been woefully neglected. I am working on recaps of these two trips along with posts… Read More

I am heading out of the country tomorrow to visit my family in Sichuan for the first time in way too many years, so I am dashing this little post out before I leave. I am procrastinating on my packing. When I am creating recipes there are always a variety of elements that inspire and impact the final result. Sometimes it’s… Read More

Happy Mardi Gras! Someone better be eating some king cake for me in New Orleans today! I realized the other day that I have only shared one recipe inspired by the food of my second hometown, New Orleans. See my Creole Chicken and Mushroom Dirty Rice here. I need to rectify that fast! Today I hope you will give my… Read More