Month: January 2015

As the name suggests, this post tracks a short trip from Suzhou to Shanghai on an evening train. Although I hadn’t been planning on documenting the journey, I decided to shoot a few photographs and see how it turned out after not shooting anything over the couple of days I spent in Suzhou.

Starting in a Suzhou metro station, I shot until the train pulled into Shanghai later in the evening. I think the six shots that make up The Train from Suzhou to Shanghai describe the journey better than I can here. So please, come take a look.

The photographs here in Shanghai Old and New were, unsurprisingly, all shot in Shanghai, although not all at the same time. Not even all in the same year, in fact. The theme though *is* Old and New, so I think I can get away with using pictures that fit that description too.

It’s really a quick snapshot of a tiny part of Shanghai life, starting with a familiar urban view and exploring things perhaps only known by those who have been to China, with a couple of visual examples of the country and its biggest city’s march into a new age of financial muscle, as evidenced by demolition, construction, and shiny new buildings.

While most of my posts on here are about trips I take or days spent in places taking photographs, I thought posts that concentrate on the images themselves would make an interesting distraction.

Shanghai Street Scenes features five shots I took during one day in Shanghai. Being a December morning, the winter sun provided a very nice light for the shots, and the people who were keen to place themselves in it for the warmth made worthy subjects.

If you want to hear a little photo critique instead of the usual travel-type posts, come see the images I got from that Shanghai morning and get the story of why I shot them.