new shanghai... tourists

Posted by hugo poon (hong kong, Hong Kong) on 20 November 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

To someone who had lived his whole life in the countryside, visiting the financial center of such big city as Shanghai might be an incredibly great event... I wondered.

Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai, China

From my recent trip to Shanghai. The weather turned sunny on the last day of my stay in the city; I decided to pay a visit to the newest business district of Shanghai - Lujiazui...

I do not regard myself as a photographer. I'm an ordinary man but extraordinarily obsessed with capturing all the memorable scenes that I encounter in my everyday life. It's like an excited traveller craving to record his memorable journey in a memorable way, but in my case, it's the journey of my life ... If I can record my encounters in such a way that they leave an image on the mind of myself and other viewers, it's a tremendous joy and some accomplishment...
In terms of photography, I'm trying to preserve the moments as my eyes see "something" and my heart feels it too. As such, I seldom feel interested in planned, arranged or manipulated photographs...