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A Few Days in Shanghai, September 2018

·Shanghai, China·#travel#cityscape#architecture#night_photography#china#shanghai
A nighttime cityscape with brightly lit skyscrapers and a distinctive TV tower beside a river.

Shanghai this week, and today ran from high above Lujiazui down to river level. From up in the tower you look down on the Oriental Pearl — down, which takes a second to register — with the Huangpu bending around it and boat traffic still moving well after dark. By daylight the same window shows how far the city actually goes: blocks of apartment towers past the river all the way to the haze, everything grey under the cloud cover.

Dinner was a long table, fourteen or so of us, white wine in everyone's hand and red berries in little arrangements down the tablecloth. A lot of toasting.

Afterward we crossed to the Bund, the old waterfront district on the west bank of the Huangpu — about a kilometer and a half of it along East Zhongshan Road — and stood with everyone else facing Pudong across the water. One tower spelled out 我❤上海 top to bottom in lights, then switched to I ♥ SH for the rest of us. The Pearl Tower ran through blue, then orange, then green while I leaned on the railing. Ferries kept crossing the whole time, dragging the reflections apart and back together.

A city skyline at night, with many illuminated skyscrapers, a river, and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.A high-angle view of a sprawling city skyline with many skyscrapers, a river, and a tall tower under a cloudy sky.Many smiling people are seated around a long dining table, holding wine glasses and looking at the camera.Illuminated city skyline at night with skyscrapers, one displaying a red heart and Chinese characters, cars, and people.A nighttime view of a brightly lit city skyline with skyscrapers and a tower reflected in a river, with boats in the foreground.Nighttime cityscape of illuminated skyscrapers and a distinctive tower reflected in a river under a dark sky.A person smiles, standing by a railing with an illuminated cityscape and river at night in the background.Nighttime Shanghai skyline with the Oriental Pearl Tower and skyscrapers, one displaying 'I ❤️ SH', reflecting on the river.

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