Josh's photoblog

Life resumes after Sandy (Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Life resumes after Sandy (Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

Someone has strung up a dead chicken outside a vacant lot next to a fancy mall in the north of Kunming

Someone has strung up a dead chicken outside a vacant lot next to a fancy mall in the north of Kunming

Every spring and fall, Siberian red-beaked seagulls converge on Green Lake (Cuihu), where passersby can hold out food to be snatched by the birds mid-flight. 

Mushrooms at a market near Yuantong St. in Kunming.

Mushrooms at a market near Yuantong St. in Kunming.

Our room at Laomadian guesthouse in Shaxi.

Our room at Laomadian guesthouse in Shaxi.

A dish of fried purple potatoes, at a roadside restaurant near Jianchuan.

A dish of fried purple potatoes, at a roadside restaurant near Jianchuan.

A monk’s lunch: roast pork and pumpkin. (at Baoxiang Temple on Shibao mountain, near Shaxi)

A monk’s lunch: roast pork and pumpkin. (at Baoxiang Temple on Shibao mountain, near Shaxi)

Fruit spread out for sale outside the market

Fruit spread out for sale outside the market