So far China has bucked a global downward trend of diminishing camera sales, as smartphones include ever better photographic capabilities. By 2015 China is expected to be the biggest camera market in the world with many of those sales happening in the amateur enthusiast market. In this video China Daily reporter D J Clark, set off to join a group of amateur photographers in Hubei on a weekend competition in the rapeseed fields of Shayang.

Video: D J Clark

Producer: Flora Yue

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About D J Clark

D J Clark has worked worldwide as a multimedia journalist for more than 20 years. As well as working for China Daily he runs an MA course in Multimedia journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University and is Course Director of Multimedia at the Asia Center for Journalism in Manila, Philippines.