Day 197: Parasols
Unlike NYC where sudden rainstorms sprout umbrella hawkers outside every subway station and hotel, Shanghai’s parasol vendors are brought out by the summer sunshine. Light skin is a “Chinese obsession”...
View ArticleDay 201: Hot & Sticky
The rains are gone and the summer heat and humidity have arrived in Shanghai. Sunshine, (a low AQI meant blue skies) a temperature of 95 F (35C), and humidity of 71% equaled a heat index of 109...
View ArticleDay 203: Beating the Heat
A group of men play cards while others stop to watch. Card playing (and gambling) is hugely popular here in China and a card game, on the street, or in the park, can quickly generate a crowd of...
View ArticleDay 206: Shanghai Aglow!
A long gray winter and a spring spent in the USA meant that I have witnessed very few Shanghai sunsets. From November on the sky resembled the fifty shades of gray that is my wardrobe, light, dark and...
View ArticleDay 212: Mellow Yellow
One of the things I enjoy most about Shanghai is the way they enclose many of the myriad construction sites with living walls of vegetation; these enclosures are planted with thousands of individual...
View ArticleDay 231: Downpour
Shanghai’s wet summer continues. The long walk through the French Concession after brunch was abandoned and good fortune arrived in the form of an empty taxi willing to take us home to Pudong. Two...
View ArticleIn Your Face
I normally don’t ask people for permission to take their pictures. Two reasons, first, I consider myself a street photographer and as such believe that casual, candid, anonymous shots are preferable to...
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