After leaving Beijing we travelled to Shanghai, this is a beautiful city with the weather changing creating different moods.
Here are a few of the many faces of the shanghai river front, the Bund.
The left side of the river, Pudong is very modern and futuristic.
The right bank is very European, from the 1920s

It has been a busy few days getting images catalogued, keyworded and uploaded to shutterstock.
there are a few new images available from the china trip. some of my favourites were deemed not needed for the stock catalogue, that is ok. i am still happy with them and they will make the book of the year this year, I'm sure.
I publish a book each year of my favourite photos, its in A4 and is a great coffee table addition and talking point when visitors notice it.
here are a few which never made the cut.

The summer palace boating on the Lake

the Great wall, smog covered

outside the world trade centre Beijing at Dusk

A street vendor with sugar coated strawberries

Shanghai, wedding day

These posts are a bit out of order as I have been back a while.
We also visited shanghai, along the Pudong, there appears to be several weddings a day, or brides just love it for their wedding albums, the most prominent color for wedding dresses also appears to be red. At first I thought they we re fashion shoots, but the more we travelled up and down they were all weddings, here are a couple of my shots of the big day...... whilst travelling on an open top tour bus.

The new web site is up and running so I thought I would re-vitalise the Blog. It is amazing it has been so long since the last post.
Today's post is about the Great wall.
On a recent visit to china, I was a bit disappointed that Beijing was covered in smog with readings in the high 300s and one day over 400, we were told the safe level was 150. Not sure what all the numbers meant but suffice to say on the day over 400, breathing was not s much more difficult rather you had to clean out your nose on returning to the hotel a bit more thoroughly.
The up side was the light.
The sunlight was filtered and dappled so reducing harsh shadows during the day.
this led to some eerie images. Beijing is a beautiful city with great heritage. it was a pleasure to see and photograph the buildings but I should have worn a mask....
The first two images were taken at 10:00am looking at the sun through the smog.
The next three are images on the great wall

the lunar project

Well, I finally finished taking the shots of the moon. I have edited it and the final picture, greatly reduced is here. What do you think?

Lunar shots

I have been working on a few projects over the past couple of months, a couple of birthday parties, a book and a year long project charting a babys development. one phto a week for 12 months to create a lasting montage. I will post it when I finnish. another project I am currently working onj is a lunar phase photo. to complete this I am taking a photo per day of the moon then creating a montage of the phases of the moon. we are on day 14 of a 28 day journey.
The moon is quite easy to photograph, I am using a 55-250 lens, on a canon 30D, shutter settings were F9, 1/250 sec, this has changed the past couple of mornings as the moon is rising later and the shy is already light, now approx F5.6, and 1/400 sec.

I also managed a good one with some cloud cover.

movie posters

here is a new project i have been working on, changing some old movie posters to add a new twist.

What do you think?