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Archive for August, 2009
Yuyintang Bands II ::Shanghai 29 August 2009
Another image of the bands playing in Yuyintang on Saturday night. Again I’m using flash and dragging the shutter to get this cool effect.
This is a band called Yuguo.
For more information about Yuyintang visit: http://www.yuyintang.org/
For more information about Yuguo: http://yuguoband.blogcn.com/index.shtml and http://www.myspace.com/yuguo
Yuyintang Bands I :: Shanghai 29 August 2009
Saturday night out with a band photographer friend and the next few days have some of the images from last night. This is a band called Yuguo.
Mixture of flash and no flash images, all have some basic processing with curves, levels and a high pass, otherwise what you see is what you get!
Enjoy!
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National Geographic “World In Focus” Photography Competition V
My final image for this series is that of Taxi drivers in the main busy square in Tokyo.
If you like this image, you’ll love the others. Check them out here http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1006811167
and please VOTE!!
National Geographic “World In Focus” Photography Competition IV
Fourth in a series of five images for the National Geographic and Photo District News.
This in my non asian image and shows some iconic British modes of transport: London bus; black cab; and a red mini!
Please check out my other pictures and vote.
http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1006811167
National Geographic “World In Focus” Photography Competition III
Third in a series of five images for the National Geographic and Photo District News competition.
If you like this series, please go and vote for my Petronas Towers image: http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1006811167
This series has one image from KL, one from London, one from Tokyo and two from Hong Kong, this is the second image from Hong Kong [...]
National Geographic “World In Focus” Photography Competition II
My second image in a series of 5 for the National Geographic’s “World in Focus” photography competition.
Please vote for one of my images using the following link: http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1006811167
This was taken in Hong Kong and shows the iconic Bank of China.
National Geographic “World In Focus” Photography Competition I
This is the first of 5 in a series on night time photography which I have entered into the World in Focus photography competition.
Please vote for this one at the World In Focus website http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/bin/Rate?image_id=1006811167
This is the Petronas Towers in KL, Malaysia and it is also the second time this image has appear in my [...]
The Door Series III :: 9 Up
Lots of random people passing the black door somewhere in the French Concession of Shanghai. August 2009.
The Black Door Series I
A series of images of random people walking past a black door in the French Concession of Shanghai.
Line 2 Sign :: Shanghai Metro Series
I’m going after interesting signs in and around the Shanghai Metro at the moment. Yesterday was a Zhongshan Park sign and a few days ago I had a cool Line 1 sign. More to come in the future.
Zhongshan Park Metro :: Shanghai
Back to the Shanghai Metro for some more underground images: yellow for line 3 and purple for line 4…
Hong Kong Airport IV
My final image from Hong Kong Airport. The original aeroplane with the great lighting and the beautiful sky! Any comments - or do you prefer the landscape version? Check out the first image in this series: Hong Kong Airport I
Hong Kong Airport II :: Infinity View
Second of four images (Okay I know I said 2 images yesterday, but I was looking through my images and found two others I really like), so instead of the vertical image of the yesterday’s plane, I have this image of the walkway within Hong Kong Airport. I’m a big fan of the white spaces [...]
Hong Kong Airport I
Today and tomorrow I have two images. Each is essentially the same image of a large aeroplane waiting for clearance at Hong Kong Airport. The lighting in the late afternoon was beautiful and tomorrow’s image shows more of the sky. Which do you prefer?
Walking at Zhongshan Park
Really there is no need to be walking inside the train… the idea is that the train does the work for you!
People’s Square Metro :: Shanghai
These people seem to have worked out how enter and exit the train without bumping into each other… I wish everyone could do that!!
Huangpi Nan Lu on line 1 :: Shanghai Metro
…and finally some people who haven’t moved and blurred my shot!
Line 1 :: Shanghai Metro
The Line 1 sign on the stairs down to the metro. See more of my metro series by clicking on the metro tag.
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