All Around Shanghai

These are the last of my Shanghai photos. No big theme here except that they are all from Shanghai (except one from Kaifeng that I had to sneak in). A few of them are about the Shanghai roads, a few about construction density, a few about the Shanghai railway station, and a few are about the beautiful Shanghai skyline. Enjoy!

Traffic in Shanghai, China.

The Oriental Peal in Shanghai. Taken from the bund with a telephoto lens.

The Oriental Peal in Pudong, Shanghai. Taken from the Guanghua Towers in Fudan University.

Highrises under construction in northern Shanghai. Taken out my laundry room window.

Buildings under construction north of Wujiaochang, Shanghai. Taken from my bathroom window.

The Puxi side of Shanghai, taken from the Guanghua Towers at Fudan. I didn't like this photo while I was in Shanghai, but after returning to Oakland I was struck by the insane population density portrayed in this photo. Look at all those high rises!

A crosswalk in Wujiaochang.

A man stares as I pass by his storefront in a hutong alley in Kaifeng, Henan, China.

Rail cars at the Shanghai Railway Station.

Rail cars at the Shanghai Railway Station.

A man stares out the window of a subway station.

A residential neighborhood near the Shanghai Railway Station.

A bike repair stand on the side of the street in Shanghai.

Obligatory shot of Shanghai's Pudong skyline from the Bund. Hard to be original with this shot without extraordinary weather or lighting.

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Night Markets

Today's post is about night markets - a source of cheap and delicious late-night sustenance for me and my classmates. The first two images are of a night market held outside the one of the gates to Fudan University, a quick two minute walk from my apartment complex. They stay open until 2am, and the most frequented stand, the barbecue stand, sells 1 yuan grilled vegetable skewers and 2 yuan grilled meat skewers. Pretty much the perfect midnight snack.

The rest of the photos in this set are from a night market in Kaifeng, Henan, that we visited as part of the CLS travel trip. This night market sold everything from peanut brittle to rabbit meat. One of my favorite things about both of these night markets was that the stalls are lit by bare incandescent bulbs, which makes for great lighting at night.  Cheap food and good lighting is heaven for a perpetually hungry 20 year-old photographer....

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