about
a perpetual tourist in the city…follow me (links below):
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- city doses
- yichinglin on 500px
- flickr-y or tumblr-y
- twitter-y or twitter-hd
- y’s bits
- y-ipa
- y-tube
- y-interest
When people tell me that I am so lucky to live in a city with so many faces, I tell them art is in the details. When people tell me that I have a great eye for images, I give credit to the city.
As a self-taught photographer living in New York City, I typically choose everyday objects and people as my inspiration. Through these images, I seek to engage the audience in sometimes subtle, oftentimes whimsical, exercises in seeing, thinking, and feeling. I am drawn by settings that reflect the transience of life, the beauty in its wear and tear, and the innately human ability to find uplifting gestures during difficult times or within everyday distractions.
The pattern that emerges from my work across the years is one of simplicity, natural depth, and clear-cut structure. As a classically trained and professional musician, I find art all around me in the same way as I enjoy shaping music from the sounds of the city and playing with words.
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I enjoy the way you ‘see’ the world around you—people, places, nature..et al. Keep the photos coming…..thanks.
thank YOU for your visits and comments! i appreciate your support (smile). you can also click here to rss feed the site for easy access to the newest updates.
hi yi-ching! met you at the veggie mart yesterday. couldn’t find your email, so i’m posting a message instead. i love the double rainbow in brooklyn photo you have on your site right now. very pretty. i’m happy to see you posting your work online, and can’t wait to see your ongoing journey!!
Hi! Just wanted to say that your photographs are beautiful! Very inspiring as well
thank you so much!
Looking Your artworks I exclaimed – WOW! – so often and so loudly that next door neighbour asked me – You purchased dog?
um…Wow! (smile)
how I can send photo?
Nice website! I started a website on photography too: http://lutgendorffarjen.wordpress.com. You’re welcome to have a look and may vote on the polll. Cheers! Arjen
oh, how lovely! thank you for sharing your website, Arjen. your nature images are like paintings!
Gorgeous! Great work!
thank you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Thank you, Bret!!
i only noticed this page today. silly me. lol. i’d just like to take this opportunity to say how much i enjoy popping over, keep it coming.
awww…
thank YOU!!
Hey Y, it was great to meet you yesterday. Actually it was serendipity for me
I just looked through some of your recent posts and I loved them! Very interesting pics and sorry to sound cliche but really make you think!
I’d like you add your blog(s) to mine but alas I’m a wordpress (and general tech) ‘dummy’ so please help. I’ve tried it before but I don’t think it worked.
Well, see around online or off. Check out my “Yes Trail” which better tracks all the things I’ve said “Yes” to since I started writing.
Good luck and big smiles to you!
on your admin page, try looking for “Widget,” then “Blogroll.” some themes (like mine) do not have a blogroll. good luck! and yes, i love your “yes trail!”
i happened upon your work this morning. a lovely way to start the day. i enjoyed the photos and the comments associated. peace, heidi
thank you, Heidi, for your compliments and for visiting. here’s something you might enjoy: a seal of approval (<– click here) (smile)
Gorgeous photos. Really beautiful perspective.
thank you for visiting, Michelle!
Thanks! I find your work and perspective very compelling! Keep it up~
thank you!!
Hey Y,
Been enjoying your photography for some time now, but can’t remember how I stumbled on your blog. Got it saved in my bookmarks, and check in now and then. You keep posting, and I’ll keep looking. And if you get a chance check out my daughters blog. I think you’ll like it. http://www.giddymultitude.com
Danny
thank you, Danny – and thank you for sharing the link!
Happy New Year Y.
Sorry this took so long. I have manynotes and sticky posts and papers with notes, etc I actually “lost” your info for awhile.lol I’m gonna browse through and take a look around your site. Talk to you soon.
Christopher-ATL
thanks for stopping by, and happy new year to you!
Very nice photographs, I really liked watching them all and certainly will visit your blog again!
thank you so much for coming by! cheers, y
I am so enjoying your poetry on Y’s-Bits. “some tie strings” leaves me tranquil, like watching goldfish under lily pads, like watching cherry blossoms float in slow water, like seeing chakra colors listening to the ocean with my eyes closed. Your line “i drop anchor on the smallest gesture” defuses the stresses of the moment, and nudge me gently to my quiet room within. And the lines “a gentle insistence/to find/my way back” lets the imp of joy, often shakled in my chest, have a moment of rising, twisting up one corner of my dour countenance.
Reading “even from this far”, endeavoring to grasp the perception of “the entire world spiraling/on the tip of her cigarette/” I applaud all you can express in so few words, magnificent imagery in your language–a tremendous compliment to the artist’s eye, the photographer’s eye you also employ. As a poet, I do not differentiate; both are art, both are reflections of our world filtered through our process. And thanks for visiting my site. It is fun joining you over at the Applehouse Poetry Workshop.
i’m honored by your warm response and the deep thoughts that you reflect from reading my words. thank you so much. i’m also glad that you caught, “a gentle insistence/to find/my way back” as a second level of meaning.
The image on the Home page today, “balling up”, is very stunning; those obdurate blossoms standing extant despite the frost or hard dew hanging on their delicately folded buds. Often it is a reach to find an image to perfectly fit one’s words, but today this image is more than perfect as a fit for “i have been asked”, your next look into the lexicon of grief poetics. Sometimes as a writing challenge in workshops we can stare an a photo, an image, and see where it leads us poetically. For much of your photography there does not seem to be a demarcation between what you “see”, and record, and what you “feel” and record. That makes you the rarests of artistic flowers, one that embraces more than one expressive medium with equal aplomb.
perhaps the demarcation is lessened because i don’t write to a photo, and i don’t generally think too much of the words when selecting a photo to post. what i mean is that i write, and then i go digging into my recent photos for something i wanted to post anyways and then i bind them together in my head. of course, there are much weaker bonds, but i try to steer clear of those (smile). thank you, again, for your wonderful comments.
Your revamped artist’s creed and mission statement on
this page is quite an improvement, at least in my mind,
over what may have preceded it. I love what you reveal
about your life, your photography, and your poetry. Boy,
will my face be red if this is not a new statement, and
simply this old man has actually read it and understood
it for the first time, providing an epiphany of insight
where none resided heretofore.
thank you! i think it was time to add a bit more substance! (smile)
I am so enjoying your poetry on Y’s-Bits. “some tie strings” leaves me tranquil, like watching goldfish under lily pads, like watching cherry blossoms float in slow water, like seeing chakra colors listening to the ocean with my eyes closed. Your line “i drop anchor on the smallest gesture” defuses the stresses of the moment, and nudge me gently to my quiet room within. And the lines “a gentle insistence/to find/my way back” lets the imp of joy, often shakled in my chest, have a moment of rising, twisting up one corner of my dour countenance.Reading “even from this far”, endeavoring to grasp the perception of “the entire world spiraling/on the tip of her cigarette/” I applaud all you can express in so few words, magnificent imagery in your language–a tremendous compliment to the artist’s eye, the photographer’s eye you also employ. As a poet, I do not differentiate; both are art, both are reflections of our world filtered through our process. And thanks for visiting my site. It is fun joining you over at the Applehouse Poetry Workshop.
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my dear, thank you for such lovely compliments! i’m floored, truly. thank you, again, for visiting!
I am so enjoying your poetry on Y’s-Bits. “some tie strings” leaves me tranquil, like watching goldfish under lily pads, like watching cherry blossoms float in slow water, like seeing chakra colors listening to the ocean with my eyes closed. Your line “i drop anchor on the smallest gesture” defuses the stresses of the moment, and nudge me gently to my quiet room within. And the lines “a gentle insistence/to find/my way back” lets the imp of joy, often shakled in my chest, have a moment of rising, twisting up one corner of my dour countenance.Reading “even from this far”, endeavoring to grasp the perception of “the entire world spiraling/on the tip of her cigarette/” I applaud all you can express in so few words, magnificent imagery in your language–a tremendous compliment to the artist’s eye, the photographer’s eye you also employ. As a poet, I do not differentiate; both are art, both are reflections of our world filtered through our process. And thanks for visiting my site. It is fun joining you over at the Applehouse Poetry Workshop. +1
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very cool blog, yi-ching. b/c it’s been so long i forgot how talented you always were. and obviously are.
thank you, Dusty – i appreciate your visits, and you are much too kind.
Subscribing for your beautiful pics.
thank you, Travis!! happy 2011!
I Love you!!! Mark
Hi Yi,
Last Friday was a blast at Paul’s Birthday Party. It was good to see you again. Recently, I wrote a new composition. I would like to share it with you via e-mail. Please send me your e-mail.
Paul’s Dad
hi, Paul’s Dad!! i’d love to hear it. check your email – and thank you for visiting!
Hi Yi-Ching,
This is Shahana, Aliya’s mom. I’m so glad to have found you online since I had misplaced your contact info. I’d love to get together with you. Please email me when you have a minute. I love your photos!
Cheers, Shahana
thank you for reaching out – see you on Sunday!
hi yi-ching,
you have realized a wonderful aesthetic concept for your website. congratulations! and be glad to live in the most interesting city of the world!
visit my NYC memories:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/sets/72157613455483112/
frizztext, Germany
wow! thank you for sharing your nyc photos. they are really lovely – are you really making a book?
Hi Yi-Ching, really nice blog…not just photographically…but I also like the food! Hope to see more posts on tasty food…hehe
thank you so much for your visits – definitely come back for more food! (smile)
First time here. Great work Y. I look forward to seeing more!
awesome of you to come by! please visit again, and i look forward to seeing more of yours as well!
Hello, I stumbled upon your blog and just love everything about it.
thank you! i hope you visit again, and thank you so much for subscribing! (smile)
You are an artist!
Amazing snaps… a very creative translation of routine life!
Keep up the great work!
thank you! i hope you enjoyed the writing as well.
I enjoy your writing…
My apologies, Please delete my accidental reply to your Coney Island jetty photo. I wanted to write some haiku attempts and ask your permission to post some of them, but I pressed the wrong button. I know it sounds lame but it happened. The spacing is wrong too. I am sorry for messing your blog up. On my old blog, the writer had editing privileges. So, please excuse the interruption and delete it.
Thank You,
martin
i don’t mind it and don’t think it’s “messing [the] blog up,” but i’ll delete it, if you wish.
Nice post, I love the website.
After having browsed through you website, I find it to be kaleidoscope of low key, lovely and lively pictures. It’s certainly full of subtleties but at the same time your clear vision of life around you. I have enjoyed strolling around your city of a blog.
thank you for your kind words. i hope you also spent some time reading the daily words (smile). cheers, y
Great shots!
thank you so much for visiting!
hi yi-ching. just wanted to say thank you for your inspiring poetry and photography and as a show of gratitude I’ve included your site for a Versatile Blogger Award!
Susan, you’re too sweet!! thank YOU!! i’m honored to be acknowledged as a “Versatile Blogger” – wow!
Your pictures always refresh and surprise me. Thank you.
thank you, R! that is so sweet – i hope they continue to do so. thank you for subscribing!
Yi Ching,
Nice to find you here. Awesome pictures… Love the variety and selection… Subscribing..
thank you for subscribing! i’m so glad you enjoy so many of my photos and “Liked” them. i appreciate your support!
Hi. I’ve just nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award
http://didised.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/the-liebster-blog-award-or-how-to-spread-the-blog-love/
Wowee! thank you for the honor! have a wonderful and fruitful New Year!! cheers, y
love your work!
i’m so glad you’ve dropped by. please feel free to subscribe for daily doses! cheers, y
Hi, I just happened upon your blog and am so delighted to discover your work. I’ll definitely be tuning in and look forward to future posts.
thank you so much – i also enjoyed your bubbles shots. great job. thank you for subscribing to my daily doses! cheers, y
you have a beautiful space here – filled with creativity
thank you so much for subscribing and for your kind words!
finally found your blog. wow!
Hello Yi-Ching,
I really love your pictures !!!
I hope you will like the fact that I nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award.
Cheers
Mathias
wow, i am honored! thank you so much, Mathias. i also enjoy your beautiful work, so i am thrilled. it looks like you’ve put in a lot of work accepting all of your awards, too! (smile) cheers, y
You’re welcome ! It’s a pleasure to visit your blog !!