The 1,500-foot high Oriental Pearl TV tower soars over the Pudong skyline on the Huangpu River, just across from Shanghai's famed Bund. Pudong was built on the rubble of peasant houses that once fringed the river. The cloud effect here is particularly striking -- I had visited Shanghai twice before, and always viewed this scene in hazy, flat light. The third time was the charm! The play of light and color on the buildings, water, and clouds offer us the symbolic mood of the dawn of a new day. A very appropriate mood for this booming city that is spearheading China’s enormous economic growth.