I'm not sure if this is actually the 'best' image I made all year, but it is one of my favorites and one that I have been playing with for quite some time now.

I'm also not sure it belongs in the Portrait category, but it's 'about' a person and it didn't really seem to fit in any of the other categories, either....

It was shot it Shanghai, China, early one morning in a public park that I stumbled upon during my wanderings in the old French Concession area.  At one end of the  parkway were lots of people waltzing in small groups to music coming from a tape recorder and just past that, there were 4 or 5 older men, writing chinese characters on the cement  walkway with large brushes and cups of water.  Their messages dried and faded away almost as soon as they finished making them....

I read very little chinese, so I have no idea what any of this means, but I call it shanghainese graffiti