Dear Friends,

Anyone want to learn Photoshop, Excel, Word, FrontPage or Dreamweaver…

My good friend Sleiman has just published the Autumn schedule for his very popular training courses.

Check them out and be sure to book early as they tend to fill up fast.

Course Titles and Dates for Autumn Term

See the full schedule here 

Well its not real Fox hunting, rather drag hunting where a lead rider goes ahead laying a trail of scent along the ground which the Hounds then follow. These photos were taken Boxing Day 2003 in Abortsford B.C. It was a beautiful winters day, clear cold and sunny. Quite nice to watch all these horsemen and women riding across fields and streams all dressed up like a bunch of mad english nobility. Come to think of it there were one or two mad english nobs in the pack…

These Canadian Stock Photos are available for license in our Alamy library…

My good friend Faris is in the process of customizing the look at feel of this here blog. Basically I want it to look like the rest of SDBPHOTO.COM and shortly it will. Only thing is we are going to reverse the color so we will have light dark grey banner on top with light grey main body and dark text, easier to read don’t you think.

Anyways if you would like your blog customized you can contact him by clicking over to his site http://skylabel.com

Thanks Faris…

Farmer walking his bicycle through rice paddies in Nothern Vietnam Mai Chau Valley

Available for sale in our ALAMY library

Old and new, this statue of one of the first Portugues explorers to set foot in China in 1513, backlit by massive neon signboard for modern Emperor Casino.

“After sailing many miles across the sea, Jorge Alvares and his crew dropped anchor in Tamao, an island located at the mouth of the Pearl River. This was to be the first time the Portuguese ever to set foot in the territory known as China, the mythical “Middle Kingdom.”

Some letters from Italian merchants at that time recorded the first trade between the Chinese and Portuguese, claiming they “were not authorized to land as locals said that by allowing foreigners to enter their houses, they were violating social customs.”

Even still, Jorge Alvares sold all the goods to local businessmen at a fair price.

Two years later, a commercial fleet under the command of Rafael Perestrelo began an expedition from Goa in India, with the hope of further trade with the people on the Pearl River.

The fleet profited greatly from this expedition and earnings were at a record high, with most of their commodities being made in the Southeast Asia countries.
　Very few Chinese people knew who they were trading with and where this country was and how exactly to name the Portuguese. Instead they just called the foreigners Da Xi Yang Guo Ren (people from the Atlantic Ocean countries).

Rafael Perestrelo was even once quoted as saying, “being a very good and honest people, the Chinese hope to make friends with the Portuguese.”

Since then, the two countries began an exchange in culture and trade that would span for nearly 500 years.”

Here it is another post to test the waters.
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Not quite as pretty as our lovely Ju, but showing a nice garment anyways…

Ah aint she beautiful. Our lovely Juliana and I did a fashion catalogue for Lea Boutique Apparel… Here is one of the photos. You can check out all their lovely styles on their new website www.leaapparel.com.hk    This site will go live shortly…

In 2000, Lea Fashion began selling leading edge, Italian made, ladies apparel in Hong Kong.

In 2001, to offer something totally new to the market, we began producing our own label garments, designed in Paris and Florence, under the names of Spatial and Tendresse et Passion. Designed for the woman who appreciates style and needs to be practical, they are sexy and wearable.

With customers from all over the world, including Japan, Korea, China, Malaysia, Australia, Europe and the USA, we appeal to Asian and Western women who are looking for quality at an affordable price.

In 2006, to assist our many, international, wholesale and retail customers keep in touch and up to date, we established our e-commerce site at www.leafashion.hk
ashley(at)leafashion.hk
Here you can now browse the latest designs and order directly over the Internet.

Take a look.
Lea Fashion. Affordable quality
This site will go live shortly…

Just finished transfering both my and mommys blog to a new hosting company. This one is called Dreamhost and so far so good.  We now have a 20GB server and plan on using it. Look out for lots more great photos from both me and my mom, who is called Pauline so my mom, Pauline took this fantastic horse picture at a celebration of Ghengis Khan 800 year anniversary thing.  Well I just think this is a fantastic photo and i know it is going straight into stock…

Well done mommy…

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