On one of the two days I spent in Shanghai with pbase photographer Jen Zhou, she took me to Luxun Park to photograph the Chinese passion for exercise. I shamelessly walked into the middle of this group of exercisers and holding my camera high above them, attempted to capture their energy and grace. Meanwhile, Jen was making this wonderful shot of me as intent on my pursuit as they were on their exercises. (I had no idea she made this photo until she submitted it for this gallery. Although the particular shot I happen to be making here does not appear in my pbase galleries, an exercise image I had made a few moments earlier here in Luxun Park does appear in my Human Values gallery. (Click on the thumbnail at the bottom to see it.) Jen’s amusing image of me is abstract (she stresses my task instead of my appearance) and incongruous (my performance is hardly as elegant as theirs, and my six foot height and odd appearance offers surreal contrast. ) This is probably quite typical of how I must appear to locals everywhere, oblivious to everything around me but the shot at hand. It offers appropriate evidence of how others must see me.