Last week I was in Shanghai for work and met jet lag straight on, here are some of the pictures from that week, including 6am walks through the city while it was waking and I was searching for sleep…
The mountains of the clouds
The customary gas mask in your room for emergencies, wrapped in a velvet pouch
Jing’an Temple
Waiting to something to clean
The new climbing over the old
Morning rituals
Nanjing Road
Dali time
Start of the morning commute
new mode of transport
Japanese dining
Concept store Corso Como
Passion Fruit Cocktail in the Coconut Paradise Restaurant
new buildings and old ways
The People’s Square
Red Queue and phone box
Market streets
Smoke and Flowers in the floor
Funky food plates and twisting cutlery
Da Dong restaurant and our own Duck being sliced
The Dragon’s Breath stealing the view on the Bund
The year of the rain
Old Town umbrellas
City God Temple of Shanghai
And ending with a little consideration for the bottom…
All Photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
Damien B. Donnelly 
Really enjoyed your photographic journey, Damien. Many wonderful, visual moments. ❤
Thank you Olga
wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing your journey.
My pleasure, thanks for coming by
So interesting, and there are so many juxtapositions of different things–ancient and modern, Asian and European, artificial and natural.
I do love the clouds at the beginning though, too.
The clouds were awesome in their massiveness! Juxtaposition is the perfect description for Shanghai. You have the feeling the entire city is being turned into the answer to western desires when I think westerners want to escape and see eastern influences which unfortunately have been built over! Another parking lot over paradise!
You captured it in your photos.
Thank you, Dami, for sharing those Shanghai stories with us. I very much enjoyed the tour!
I imagine that jet lag walks like those you mentioned actually can help to take in all those new and very different impressions during the relative calm of early morning… But I doubt that personally I would have managed to successfully combine this with work… 😉 Cudos that you did!
Much love,
Steffi
Really awesome pics. Thank you for sharing. Glad you had some time to find these places as well enjoy some fine food in some beautiful places. Whole city looks spotless, well organized. Thanks, too, for the poem. Well done. Looks as though I should wait till I have some more money saved up before I take on Shanghai.
Thanks Kim for stopping by. It’s an interesting city of contrasts and if you stay away from the Gucci’s then it’s also extremely cheap for westerners! Best wishes
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As someone who lives in China (Suzhou, one big city west of Shanghai), you’ve done a really wonderful job of capturing the feel of Shanghai and this region of China. Great photos!
Thank you Craig, It’s really nice to get approval from the inside. I tried my best to fill every free hour watching life pass by. Thanks for dropping by.
Thanks for bring beautiful picture of Shanghai… they are very true (:. I love Shanghai more than anywhere else as it’s my hometown. BTW you must be saying in a very good hotel to give you a mask in velvet pouch….
Glad you liked the pictures! Especially as it’s your city so that’s real approval! I think some hotel like to make the foreigners feel more relaxed by adding the velvet pouch- it’s not my first emergency mask in China that was wrapped so well! Best wishes damien