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Yu yuan-na go there at night

18/7/2020

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One of my favourite places in Shanghai is the Yu Yuan Gardens. Every time I have visited there has been something else to discover. Up until this last visit, it has always been during the day. The shopping precinct that surrounds the gardens comes even further alive at night when the lights provide another dimension...
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Getting a Leg up

17/7/2020

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Shameless Photoshop work that stretches the imagination (and the legs of the model) For those missing the point look at the proportion of leg length to body ~  from hip to shoulder. Fashion marketing and business owners have no shame... 
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Clean Sweep

7/7/2020

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One of the many contradictions of China is high tech versus lo-tech. One can buy anything on your phone, pay people via an app to stand in line for you in a restaurant queue, access real 5G speed and then there is the old school practices that are maintained and perhaps are more environmentally sound. Street sweepers in all the parts of  China I have visited make their own broom switches... there and then on the street. 
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This guy was bending the wire tie in preparation to wind the bamboo broomstick under his arm. There is no doubting the effectiveness of this approach. :-)
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