CAPTURE NEW HORIZONS

I am currently in Shanghai for the next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship on Sunday 1 November.  This morning I woke up in my hotel room and on opening the curtains I was immediately hit by diffused sunlight through the polluted atmosphere that seems to permanently shroud China's largest city.   This is the fourth year I have stayed at the Crowne Plaza hotel located a few miles from the Shanghai International Circuit and every year I take pictures out of the window to show how things change very quickly in this part of the world.  Last year there was bare ground now, 12 months later, it is a massive construction site with four cranes and hundreds of workers. I took some shots on the X-T1 and XF50-140mm f2.8 to document the changes.  At least the light was quite special even if the subject matter was not.  Probably have a massive tower block in front of the windows next year. ----------------------------------------------...

This was the scene this morning out of my hotel room window here in Shanghai.  The Crowne Plaza also has its own golf course and the mist had settled on the fairways with just the trees sticking up out of the fog. The shot was taken on the Fuji X-Pro1 and 60mm f2.4 lens.  The post processing included a bleach bypass filter and I added some film grain to give it almost a high speed black and white film effect. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMI...