Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-09-24. (read more »)

Today, the general manager of a camera store in Thailand rudely interrupted me as I was introducing the Lytro camera to a few of our Photokina photo walk attendees. He literally walked in between me and the group; the very first thing he asked was, “Where is your manager?” I assume he said this because he is an older Asian guy and I look like a young-ish Asian guy. He must be very traditional. I can respect experience and wisdom, but the automatic assumption of hierarchy due to age is barbaric. Also, I’m American, and I am just not into that sort of implicit relationship (Ren, the founder of Lytro, is even younger than I am). After the rude introduction, he proceeded to brag about himself for a few minutes, making a few demands. I won’t go into the details.

I did my duty and referred him to our sales team, but I can’t say that I was overly enthusiastic in my recommendation to follow up.

The night I arrived in Cologne, I woke up at 3am to get on a Skype call to co-host This Week in Photo with Frederick Van Johnson, Nicole Young, and Steve Simon. I really enjoyed getting to chat with them about the photography news of the week!

I listen to TWiP every week during my commute from San Francisco to Lytro HQ in Mountain View. If you are interested in photography, I highly recommend subscribing to the podcast.

Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-09-17. (read more »)

Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-09-10. (read more »)

On August 28, 2012, I was featured in an OnAir (live) Google Hangout series called Life Through the Lens, which was described to me as “sort of like ‘The View’, but for photography.” I really enjoyed the interview—I got to blather on about some of my favorite pictures for over an hour.

Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-09-03. (read more »)

Tweets posted by @echeng during the week of 2012-09-03. (read more »)