Yes, we are indeed lucky to be here. it is one the most interesting places on the planet to live and work. As it is culturally so far removed from our own Eurocentric experience, you can imagine that we learn a heck of a lot on an almost daily basis.

As to a remark re my photos elsewhere. I see my photos more as an attempt at commenting on the sociology of modern China as experienced by us in this wonderful country - a view of the goodness / normality of life here, even if it is sometimes culturally foreign to us. And this is the point I am making - there is absolutely NOTHING sinister about what we see, experience and live daily. That might be why you see it as snapshots - which they are really, just images documenting real life in China. Normal, every day life.

Photojournalism to me implies something newsworthy. To be honest, average daily life in China is very mundane and just that: life, with a dollop of hard work. No riots, no egocentric politicians amassing fortunes (and those who do are executed), no crowd controls, no silly drug-abusing wanna-be stars and heiresses, no PC maniacs trying to bend the world to their small views and making news out of nothing at all.

Maybe that is the cause of what some see as a lack of photo journalism from China. And that is part of the inherent foreignness of this country and what causes so much misunderstanding.

Like a good friend of mine said a week or two ago, he hopes that when people come here for the Games next year, that they come without preconceptions coloured and flavoured by a one-sided Western Media; that they rather arrive here, willing to widen their own blinkers somewhat and go back home with a more balanced view of this dynamic civilization.