Picture of the Week # 309 "Snow White and the Duck"  Shanghai, China 2014 Signed & Stamped

Okay, I know this really doesn't show China as you'd expect it. This was the first time I've been back since 1980 and this kind of image definitely didn't exist back then. This time I was there to work on a show titled "MAO to NOW" a photographic exploration of change. At the same time I have been accumulating my pictures going back almost 50 years that have a sense of humor. I probably have said this before but I am bored by black & white landscape images as beautiful as they may be, by pictures of war and of dead celebrities. Why can't they're be humor in photos? Aren't most family events, weddings etc fun? And aren't there things that you encounter on the street that make you smile and say to yourself I wish I had a camera. Well now-a-days everyone has either a camera or a smart phone. But what are they taking.... selfies. Amazingly those images bring a smile to my face. But I am more interested in other people than recording myself. So I am always on the lookout for pictures that make me smile. My serious images from China will be posting shortly. Stay tuned.