Emily's Escapades » street scenes

Beautifying the City

emily — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:54 +0000

Planting flowers everywhere possible really does improve the enviroment. Sandhya said she read that they’d created new hybrid flowers that will withstand the flower-wilting hot summer!

Mailboxes on Changle Lu

emily — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:01 +0000

Changle Lu – 52 Weeks 52 Streets

emily — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:38 +0000

Changle Lu is a nice street for a walk through the French Concession.

Yan’an Lu at Night, near Jing’an Temple

emily — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:07 +0000

Night Photos

emily — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:34 +0000

Here are a few night photos from around People’s Square. They were all hand-held.

The new blue LED lights made it look very cool, but hard to get a good color representation in the photos. The camera thought that there was no way there could be so much blue, so it added in a lot of red to compensate. I tried several things in-camera to fix this, but in the end I just had to fix it by using a point on the photo to tell the computer what white was supposed to be.

Beihai Lu – 52 Weeks, 52 Streets

emily — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:11 +0000

I need to have some variety in times I shoot or everything will start to look the same! Gary over at Expatriate Games has some really great night photos; if I remember correctly we have the same camera so technically I should be able to shoot in as low of light as he does. These were all hand-held photos.

Beautifying the streets

emily — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:23 +0000

These planters with hanging vines actually do make the streets look nicer – they hide the piles of bikes parked along the road.

Beijing Dong Lu – part II

emily — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:18 +0000

Lots of work is going on… only a couple weeks until the Expo starts! My favorite photo here is of the worker scraping the Chinese character for “demolish” off of a huge glass window. I’m not certain if this means the building isn’t going to be demolished (at least not while Expo is going on), or if the window will be reused so they need to remove the paint first.

Beijing Dong Lu – 52 Weeks, 52 Streets

emily — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:55 +0000

Beijing Dong (East) Road is known for all of little shops selling everything having to do with building things: pipes, wheels, nuts, bolts, screws, transformers, tools, ball bearings, and many dohickies and thingamagigs that I have no idea what they might be used for.

Hanging Meat

emily — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:35 +0000

Now you see meat hanging outside all of the time. These were on our roof. I don’t think it’s cold enough to keep meat fresh.