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Collierville Town Square

Today was a beautiful day and I got the chance to visit one of locations that I been trying to scout as part of my project to explore some new grounds around Memphis. I drove a bit far today to visit the historical Town Square in Collierville. The town locates right outside of Memphis, and is mainly composed of upscale houses and neighborhoods.

I went to visited it’s town square today for some scenery shots. The place does give quite a history feel to it, with it’s small local stores  along with train tracks.

anyway here are the shots from today. Enjoy :)

New Orleans: French Quarter Part 2

The French Quarter came alive especially during the night time, much like our Beale Street here in Memphis theres party everywhere we go, also includes magic tricks apparently. When the sun sets I switched to my trusty 50mm at 1.4 hopefully to capture such a lively atmosphere.

We were lucky that the first day we got to New Orleans that the weather was perfect, in which we got to experience a perfect sunset at french quarter. The next day was a perfect mess since it was much cloudy most of the day along with some rains, so the sun didn’t appears till the next day when we were leaving.

So here part 2 of New Orleans

New Orleans: French Quarter

This past week was my spring break, out of sudden bordem a friend of my decided to head to New Orleans for the last few days. Without much planning, we just packed our bags and started heading down to the coast. The distance from Memphis to New Orleans was about 6 or so hours, thought the journey through Mississippi was much a bumpy ride. Since we didnt have much cash we decided to stay at Super 8, haha it was actually decent place to stay. haha

Our first destination was the French Quarter, the heart of the downtown New Orleans, we basically just walked around until we got lost. The atmosphere is so amazing around French Quarter, but I enjoyed the Art work the most. Just a joy to such a vibrant support for the local artists, there are gorgeous paintings everywhere you go along with decent live music. This would be first I touch my camera this year and did a bit of photography.

So enjoy the first part of my trip.

China Adventures: Shanghai House Restaurant

During my winter break, My family and I took a trip back to Shanghai to attend my uncle’s wedding, I told myself  that I will blog my experience once I get back. One of my new resolutions for 2012 was to undertake Food Photography, and I thought this trip will be the perfect opportunity  for me to dive in. Every time during my stay in Shanghai, my family will always try to experience the new restaurants that in recent years got a bit famous. The Restaurant business in shanghai grow tremendously in the recent years, as people tends to eat out more. A lot more. Almost every restaurant we went to needs to be reserve days ahead, and sometime weeks early. Our first stop was at the Shanghai House Restaurant (上海人家), it was located inside this gigantic mall, as from the name the place serves mostly traditional Shanghainese cuisines.

We ordered the usual Shanghainese dishes which includes Red Braised Pork, Spring Rolls, and many other tiny delicacy that is known from shanghai. Overall the experience and service was pretty decent and food was mostly delicious, thought i think they put just a bit too much sugar in some of the dishes. Enjoy the photos below.

More foodness in this coming week as I get all of my china photo sort it out.