A print is available in my 2008 calendar [link]

Recently the local council decided to refurbish the entire street, walls, gates, shops, even the brothels. The results are a bizarre mix of hideously mismatched styles, red brick, picket fences lining the tops of the walls, wrought iron gates with wooden panels with metal butterfly and flower decorations. Along with some tacky street statues. Then one day, long after it was all finished, this clock appeared... and it hasn't told the right time since. Not only that but all four faces of the clock tell different times. It looks pretty dull in the daytime but takes on a different feel at night time... if you ignore the silly fat jazz player sculpture beside it.

It's the first in this series of photos with my daughter that I've done outside and it didn't go too smoothly. I went down the night before to figure out which was the best way to shoot it to minimize the time I would actually spend down there with my daughter. It couldn't be too late or she would be too tired but this is China. That means that within a few minutes of starting we were surrounded by a dozen people with cars pulling up to take a good gander at what was happening. This made my daughter uncomfortable and I had to move very quickly which didn't allow me enough time to get exactly what I wanted. But I think I got the mood right. By the way the out of focus part is from the tilt and shift lens and not added in Photoshop.

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