...the photographer

R. Todd King consults for AdmissionsConsultants, advising clients pursuing admission to top business schools; he focuses his work on Asian clients.  Previously he was a business strategy consultant in the US for Morningside, an international investment group based in China, where he researched US best-practices for Chinese e-business and media companies to emulate.

A Class of 2000 MBA graduate from the MIT Sloan School of Management, he concentrated his studies on the e-business and entertainment industries in China.  He spent six months of his Sloan tenure in China: in Beijing, where he provided consulting and project management for the major Chinese Internet portal site Sohu.com (including the marketing concept and design of Sohu’s animated fox logo); and in Shanghai, where he provided marketing consulting for the Fudan University International MBA Program sponsored by Sloan.  He was an organizer of the Sloan student business trip to China in 1999, and participated in Sloan Project Team 2000, teaching teamwork and career skills to International MBA students in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Prior to Sloan, he spent a five-year career at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he received screen credit in six animated films including “The Lion King” and “Mulan” for his computer and technical support.  His work on “Mulan” spurred his interest in Chinese animation and media, and led to his China-related work at Sloan and Morningside.

In 1992 he gained his undergraduate degree in computer science with honors from the University of Utah, after serving four years in US Army Military Intelligence.

...the photographs

All photographs on this site are digital.  Recent photographs were taken with either a Nikon D90 (12 megapixels) or a Nikon D200 (10 megapixels) with a Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens or a Tokina 11-16mm AT-X lens.  Photographs prior to the spring of 2006 were taken with a Sony DSC-F828 (8 megapixels); those prior to 2004 were taken with an Olympus C-2020 (2 megapixels), and those prior to the spring of 2000 were taken with an Olympus D-500L (0.8 megapixels).  Photoshop was used for basic tonal correction.

A number of these photographs have appeared in publications worldwide.  Publishers interested in purchasing these works for their projects should contact the photographer for more information.

The Harbin winter festival photographs through 2007 have been published as a book entitled “Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow: The Winter Festivals of Harbin, China”.  The book, available through Blurb.com, can be previewed and purchased below.

...the web site

This site was created entirely by hand (with Notepad), using no web authoring tools.  Elizabeth Castro’s book “HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th edition” (now in its 6th edition) was the primary coding reference.  The site performs consistently across the current versions of the Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers.

The site is best viewed at a browser width of 800 pixels or more.  The background color of the site is dark blue; if you see black, then you need to adjust your monitor.  If your operating system is Windows XP, turning on ClearType font smoothing is highly recommended - not only to improve the readability of this web site, but also to improve the readability of everything else on your computer screen.

The site was last updated on 15 March 2010 with the addition of the preview/purchase widget for the book, now appearing above and on all the Harbin pages.  The site was updated over the prior three months with the addition of two first-trip-to-China pages adapted from a 1999 journal of the trip, the major addition of ten long-delayed Beijing and Shanhaiguan 2006 pages, and the addition of three far-more-recent New England Autumn 2009 pages.