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Jennifer Zhou | all galleries >> Galleries >> Cityscape > Golden future, Pudong, Shanghai, China, 2004

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13-JAN-2004

Golden future, Pudong, Shanghai, China, 2004

Canon EOS 10D
1/320s f/7.1 at 50.0mm iso200 full exif

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bhaswan		23-Aug-2006 00:27
surreal! beautifully composed.

Guest		04-Mar-2006 14:24
Very nice light... I like your images... It would be great to visit China... You are welcome to my gallerie.

Flying Dutchman		04-Oct-2005 01:09
Great image... a city at the moment of waking up

Dom Burke		20-Aug-2005 09:22
fantastic image

Guest		28-Jul-2005 02:51
Hi Jen, long time... sorry but I am a bit overflooded with work again... :( Well, I see here like a bit of an incongrouity, to me it looks like a golden city doe to the colors of the sun, but up to a certain extend... Here in the front edges of the pictures we see these two massive buildings coloured gold by the sun, but down below I see the little city, crowded, hubbled, buizy and I wold say "less afortunate". The unification of it all by the colour gives me the sence that it is all connected and in this context I wold imagine these two towers like the towers of an european castle in the middle ages, were the powerfull lived, and under below it the houses of the rest of the mortals. On the other hand, the clarity of the two forward buildings combined with the blur of the mist in the further down buildings also give me the sence of unpleasent feeleng, almost suffocating feeleng there below.

Guest		19-Oct-2004 19:45
magical and beautiful jen... full of atmosphere... evokes emotion in the viewer... dR

Tasty Orange		18-Oct-2004 03:38
Pollution can work wonders for urban landscape photography. What would be really cool would be a pteradactyle or wicked witch on a broom silhouette just left of center in the open space.

Guest		13-Oct-2004 23:59
A visual feast!

Phil Douglis		02-Oct-2004 05:28
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Guest		25-Sep-2004 12:44
I really love this image, Jenny!

Phil Douglis		18-Aug-2004 19:22
I've been thinking more about the meaning of this image to me, Jen. It won't let go of me. After leaving my comment on Marek's comment yesterday, I can't look at it without thinking of still another message you seem to be sending. The sun represents nature at its most overwhelming -- you have chosen to deliberately include its white hot heat in this picture. Pudong, slumbering below it, is reduced to a mere hive of ants -- mankind seems so insignificant when compared to the primal force of the sun itself. This is neither a sunset or sunrise. It is pure, blazing sun, which will remain just as powerful long after these buildings have crumbled into rubble. What you are saying to me here is that man may come and man may go, but the earth abides! I would love to know how you, as the artist, feel about this interpretation. Phil

Phil Douglis		17-Aug-2004 20:12
Jen, I agree with Marek's comment regarding the "primal" effect of shooting directly into the sun. It blinds us, and as Marek points out, it symbolizes the source of life itself. He also makes good points about the "visual draw" of your perspective choices, and the role of those buildings at each side as they play with our imaginations. I wonder how much of this was a result of conscious thinking and how much was sheer instinct? Either way, you have made an image of this scene that symbolizes not only our origins, but how we structure our existence by living and working within an infinity of stacked spaces.

Guest		16-Aug-2004 09:49
This image is made by light and form. I agree with Phil about the impression of infinity and I think this is created by using the brilliant (excuse the pun ;-) trick of partially obscuring the light source (the sun) on the one side, and showing its reflection on the other. Successful landscapes are supposed to work by creating a visual 'draw' which leads the viewer to explore the scene, such as a road or a river. In this example, the method is much more subtle and more powerful at the same time; we see the sun's reflection (on the right, the stronger side) and we follow it back, trying to see the sun. The decending size of the buildings helps to create the perspective draw. It is such a powerful, primal response -- we can't help looking directly into the sun, the source of life. The other instinct is the one for symmetry, so we are trying to look behind the left building in order to see a reflection of the entire scene, which we feel must be there. This is what creates the tension; the visual pursuit of the 'other dimension', the infitity that we know is there but can never quite reach. In summary, the light fantastic combination of symmetry and asymetry results in a multiplex reality.

Phil Douglis		13-Aug-2004 06:05
A wonderful cityscape, which works because of how you framed it within the facades of the buildings at the edges and the intensity of its coloration. It gives the city depth and makes it seem to go on forever (as it does). My own abstracted cityscape of Shanghai was made along Nanjing Road, and I used a different concept. Since i did not have the intensity of color available, I contrasted the new to the old. It's at:http://www.pbase.com/image/31309875/original

Guest		10-Feb-2004 01:49
The lighting is just perfect, and the buildings that frame the left hand side really draw you into the picture. Another excellent photograph.

Guest		08-Feb-2004 14:13
Very beautiful and atmospheric shot Jennifer!!! /Zevs