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Day: December 25, 2009

Pictures are worth a thousand words, but why stop there?

25 December 200917 April 2013 JohannaNo Comments

Pictures are powerful. Besides having high artistic value, a good photo will say a lot about a particular event, time or place. In other words, it will tell a story. But news photos are always accompanied by cutlines. Why? From the Poynter Institute: Photos tend to communicate in an impressionistic way; they are rarely as […]

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First foreign Christmas off to an un-Christmasy start

25 December 200919 April 2013 JohannaNo Comments

This year, I get to celebrate Christmas a whole 13 hours earlier! But all that excitement was negated by the perils of the Beijing work commute. 1) It’s 12 degrees outside, with a very brutal wind blowing, which makes it feel like -7 degrees. 2) I ended up having to wait in this -7-degree wind […]

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