China is fascinating and beautiful. It’s also photogenic. I like photos of the little details that say so much: cups, food, lanterns and so on. Recently I’ve been looking at the work of several Chinese photographers that are really good at taking these sorts of images. Ling Li is one of them – her photos are full of energy and life. Take some time to look at her Flickrstream and photoblog, and enjoy the interview.

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I decided that it was time to go digital back in 2006. To start, I bought a cheap Olympus digital compact camera. I was so pleased with the results that I never used film again.

When I look back at the photos that I took with that camera it occurs to me that the photos are actually very good. Not so much in a technical sense – there’s no way that the quality of an image from the small sensor of a compact camera can match the quality of photos taken with digital SLRs. But aesthetically, yes.

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