Josh's photoblog

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

“Caniam” and “Nican” “lenses” at a photo shop on Xichang Lu.

“Caniam” and “Nican” “lenses” at a photo shop on Xichang Lu.