07.26.09 China: A person, place, or thing
The portfolio I submitted for the course I was, er, “taking.” Based it on the idea of using nouns to illustrate the country.
Posts Tagged ‘shanghai’
07.21.09 A short last day, a short first day
Last day of Shanghai was a short one. First day of Hong Kong, likewise, a short one. So I combined the two.
Tagged big city, boat, china, d700, hong kong, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, shanghai, skyline, skyscrapers, travel
07.20.09 Shanghai day 5 part 2
More from day 5. I think there are . . . 3 or 4 more posts? Something like that.
Tagged aquarium, china, culture, d700, nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, shanghai, skyscraper, travel
07.19.09 Shanghai day 5 part 1
There were about 80 total images from day 5 (at least, ones I thought of as keepers). So I’m breaking it into two posts. I’ll post part two tomorrow.
Tagged china, culture, d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, shanghai, travel
07.17.09 Shanghai returns
Finally, back with the China pics. Most of these are from an “ancient” Shanghai “suburb.” It was rather nice actually. And while it was a suburb in the sense it’s 30 minutes from the city, it’s still not what you’d consider a Western style enclave or anything.
Tagged china, culture, d700, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikon, shanghai, sigma 28mm f/1.8, temple, travel
07.02.09 Parks and boats
The third day of Shanghai. It was far better than the first couple days, as the places were more cultural and we weren’t inundated with museums.
Tagged china, culture, d700, nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, nikon 70-300mm VR, shanghai, sigma 28mm f/1.8, travel
06.28.09 First days of Shanghai
Shanghai was a mixed bag in terms of favorite places I’ve been to. It’s a giant city – second largest in the world – but once you get past the surface, which looks like a culturally vibrant and crazy place, it’s really all about business. The arts scene was highly commercial, in a bad way, though it did have its gems. I’ll get to that even more in a later post. Architecturally though, it’s far and ahead one of the more interesting, in China and worldwide. The World Expo (aka World’s Fair) is being held there next year, so a lot of construction is going on to get these ridiculous projects built. What I also liked was in the mornings, people would be out and about right outside the hotel doing tai-chi and dance aerobics, even playing badminton. There was a pedestrian only boulevard / plaza in front of the hotel where all this took place.
