Sunrise on Pudong, Shanghai, China

Sunrise on pudong by le niners.

I remember when there was nothing here but fields. No really it's true, and I'm not that old. Pudong is the new part of Shanghai that has burgeoned into modernity in an extremely short time. Where just 20 years hence, there was just farms, now stand some of the worlds tallest skyscrapers and other really expensive real estate. I've visited Shanghai 4 times over the last five years. Abet once was just a 6 hour stop over at the airport. And I am always in awe of this highly developed city. 


I selected this photo today because it is a little different form the normal tourist shot of Shanghai's Pudong district. Most photographers go a little bit further up stream, to the right of shot, to the famous Bund riverside. But this photograph is shifted downstream. In doing so, we turn the corner and get a view, 90 degrees rotated from the norm.

Temple of Heaven in Beijing

Temple of Heaven, originally uploaded by Studio494 (Simon).

I was surfing through some flickr photos looking for some interesting shots of Beijing, and this one just caught my eye. The Temple of Heaven in Beijing is a very colourful building. The thing that usually catches people's attention is the colours. Thus most pics you see of this building extenuate these colours. So what made me pick out this photograph, was the lack of colour. Though not a monochrome picture, this has a monochromatic feel to it. The lighting from behind has be perfectly executed and the detail throughout is fantastic. I have to wonder how this shot was taken. There are no tourists visible. Usually this site is crowded with tourists, but this photograph is devoid of people.