Monday, May 21, 2007

Bright lights, big city

Shanghai has a population of over eighteen million people (according to Wikipedia). It’s a densely-populated, active, flashing, noisy place. It’s difficult to convey its use of—and apparent devotion to—colored lights.

This is Nanjing Lu, the main shopping street, on a Wednesday evening:


And here is a picture of the Pudong, a commercial area to the east of the Huangpu river, which has the weirdly-shaped and colorful Oriental Pearl TV Tower:


Our first morning in Shanghai, Debbie and I, who were sharing a hotel room, woke up at 6:00 am. The reason: there was a marching band competition going on immediately outside our hotel:

3 Comments:

At Mon May 21, 12:23:00 PM EDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who won the competition?

LOVE the nighttime shots.

 
At Mon May 21, 01:02:00 PM EDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did it bring back memories?

 
At Mon May 21, 06:11:00 PM EDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey! A tympani nest - what class is that! And, two more shots for my wallpaper. These night shots are really really good.

 

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