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Archive for November, 2009
Shanghai @ Work :: Road Construction X Refelctions
The road construction series might have to come to an end soon. At least the black and white series. Colour to follow.
Shanghai @ Work :: Road Construction IX Curves and Straight Lines
You may have noticed all these images are black and white There really is no colour in these images at all. It’s dusty, grimy and dirty on these roads and the story I’m trying to tell with these images is all about the shapes, curves and lines.
Shanghai @ Work :: Road Construction VIII More Scaffolding
This is just a small part of a very very very huge project.
Shanghai @ Work :: Road construction VII Inside the Scaffording
These grids of scaffolding are under the new expressways being built here in Shanghai. They are a labyrinth of scaffording and quite fascinating to look at. The men who put this network of grids together work incredible fast. One wonders if they would enjoy playing with lego or mechano??
Shanghai @ Work :: Road construction VI
With all these new roads, one wonders when the new traffic jams will start…
Shanghai @ work :: Road construction V
A single man works alone on the edge of a part of a new expressway under construction in Shanghai.
Shanghai @ work :: Road construction IV
From old roads to new expressways. Building work happens fast in China
Shanghai @ work :: Road construction III
This is the area leading into what will be the Hong Qiao transportation hub. The massive amount of construction here is not only about new expressway roads, but it also encompasses new metro lines, light rail, high speed long distance rail links and a new airport for domestic travel. At the moment and on the [...]
Shanghai @ work :: Road construction in Minhang
The current series is from the area around the Hong Qiao Shanghai airport and mostly black and white. The world going on here is impressive albeit incredibly dirty.
Shanghai @ work :: Building a road!
West of the main city lies Shanghai’s, and probably China’s, biggest construction project underway at this time. There are overhead roads being built from every direction converging on what will be a transport hub for people living in the Shanghai metro district or travelling to places further afield such as Beijing.
I pass through this construction [...]
Shanghai @ work :: Building a dream?
New construction is everywhere in Shanghai. Here it’s just starting.
Shanghia Metro :: Line 2
Images on the metro still fascinate me. I took this one with my Canon G10 one evening whilst experimenting with blur and exposure. I really like it, even though I probably shouldn’t!!
Shanghai @ Night :: Shanghai Art Gallery
The Shanghai Art Gallery is has a great location just off Nan Jing Xi Lu and overlooks People’s Square.
Shanghai @ Night :: Alleyways and City Lights
Alleyways and city lights is the subject of this posting. Taken one evening in November 2009 just before it started to get really cold in Shanghai. This area near to People’s Square is undergoing major construction and renovation. The ambient lighting around the centre of Shanghai is also pretty crazy at night!
More (de)construction in Shanghai
It’s a busy time in Shanghai at the moment. The Expo 2010 is a big deal and much of the city is going through construction and in many places destruction as well. This image is from a area of the city between People’s Square and Nan Jing Xi Lu.
Construction near People’s Square, Shanghai
It seems like I’ve been living in cities of construction for the past 3 years. First Vancouver where they have been preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics for the last few years, and now Shanghai where rapid construction seems to be a way of life - and especially because of the World Expo taking place [...]
Night time in Shanghai :: Nanjing Xi Lu looking towards Tomorrow Square
It’s been a while since I took night time pictures in Shanghai and last Sunday was reported to be the last day of good weather for a while (and that’s definitely been true all of this week!). So I packed up a tripod and headed down towards People’s Square and went looking for some cool [...]
Black Doors in Shanghai
All the same and all different.
A series of doors in the Luwan area of Shanghai.
Two wheels in Shanghai
That’s enough of Australia for the time being - I’m sure though that I’ll find a few more pictures to blog about Melbourne or Sydney at some point.
However, I’m now back in Shanghai and I’ve been busy getting into various series of work and thinking about what makes Shanghai tick! One thing for sure that’s [...]
A few more Melbourne Cafes :: October 2009
Melbourne has so many little side streets in it’s central area. Some of these side streets are just cafe after cafe after cafe. Here’s eight of them!
Degraves Espresso
Melbourne has a fantastic array of coffee shops and cafes - too many to mention. However, here’s one of the more well known ones based in downtown not far from Flinder’s Street Station.
The Yarra River in central Melbourne
Following on my usual theme of night time blues, here’s a picture from central Melbourne of the Yarra River.
Flinder’s Street and Traffic Light :: Melbourne October 2009
Another one of Flinder’s Street Station. This time with a traffic light. It’s kind of similar to my image from KL of the Petronas Towers.
Recent Posts
- Building China :: unfinished road with family September 5, 2010This is currently one of my favourite images and represents life in the suburbs of Shanghai. There has been frantic construction going on for several years now to place Shanghai in the best infrastructure position possible. The domestic Hong Qiao Airport recently opened a brand new terminal and this happened in conjunction with a new [...]
- Suzhou Street Life II September 4, 2010A couple bikes parked by a wall in Mu Du, near Suzhou, China. Seen best in black and white :: June 2010
- Suzhou Street Life September 3, 2010Exposing for the highlights gives this one a darker feel and it’s just what I wanted to be able to show the busy atmosphere at one of the bus stops in the centre of Suzhou. Seen in Suzhou, China :: June 2010
