Will it go round in circles?

Back to the location of the first new photograph posted in this blog (link): another take on the roof of a new shopping mall, LuOne.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal length: 5.8 mm
Exposure time: 1/500
ISO speed: 160
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Fire and ice

This is the fourth of a series of six abstracts that I shot last week in the German city Bocholt, which we visited on a daytrip. A construction place was fenced off, and the fence was turned into an intriguing combination of graffiti and weather-induced wear.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Shanghai High-rise Buildings Abstract 7

Continuing the series of abstracted Shanghai high-rise buildings. As in most cases, the conversion to black and white helped emphasize the inherent line play. The reflections along the dark diagonal add spice with their interactions.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal length: 25.2 mm
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO speed: 100
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Depression

This is the third of a series of six abstracts that I shot earlier this month in the German city Bocholt, which we visited on a daytrip. A construction place was fenced off, and the fence was turned into an intriguing combination of graffiti and weather-induced wear.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Spiral

The spiral stairs of the new Soho building near our Shanghai home. It has featured from a different angle before (here).

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Watch me bleed

Another abstract that I shot in an abandoned factory complex at the Yangshupu Road, which now houses the Shanghai Factory Outlet fashion shopping mall (see for the first one here). Wear and tear at its best.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal length: 7.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Nanjing Usnisa palace 6

When we left the Nanjing Usnisa palace, we had to wait for a bus at a bus stand with an extraordinary roof. Another abstract architecture opportunity spotted and taken.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal length: 6.0 mm
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO speed: 100
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Arc

I shot this abstract somewhere in Shanghai, most likely in the centre, not far from where we live. I like the interplay of straight lines and curves.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/7.0
Focal length: 54 mm
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO speed: 125
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Rainbow warrior

This is the second of a series of six abstracts that I shot earlier this week in the German city Bocholt, which we visited on a daytrip. A construction place was fenced off, and the fence was turned into an intriguing combination of graffiti and weather-induced wear.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

The stars like dust

A very trippy ceiling I came across in one of the rooms of the famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The original is black stars on white, I inverted it in Picasa for additional effect.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal length: 7.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO speed: 800
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Shanghai High-rise Buildings Abstract 6

Continuing the series of abstracted Shanghai high-rise buildings. As in most cases, the conversion to black and white helped emphasize the inherent line play.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal length: 26.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/400
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Winter is coming

This is the first of a series of six abstracts that I shot earlier this week in the German city Bocholt, which we visited on a daytrip. A construction place was fenced off, and the fence was turned into an intriguing combination of graffiti and weather-induced wear.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO speed: 640
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Pictures at an exhibition

A shot I took at a photography exhibition somewhere in the French concession part of Shanghai. I turned the shot 90 degrees to get a different effect.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 160
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Resignation

The last of three of these shots. The yearly manifestation Kerst in Oud Kampen (Christmas in Old Kampen) is a street theater show that often offers special photography opportunities. One of the interesting parts this year was a large paper tree that included over a dozen different sculpted paper faces.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/50
ISO speed: 100
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Nanjing Usnisa palace 5

Back to the entrance (or in this case exit) of the Nanjing Usnisa palace. A variation on a shot I posted before (here).

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/1250
ISO speed: 125
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Clouds

An amazing decorative ceiling light in one of Shanghai's shopping malls. I went for black and white in postprocessing to emphasize the shapes.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Tangential

Paying another visit to the Drachten dumpster we first encountered a few days ago. I love the flowing double curve through this shot.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 160
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Peeking through

During our short break to Nanjing and other cities, we visited Yangzhou. I've already shared a picture of the beautiful Slender West Lake garden (here); now a shot from the other garden we looked at, Geyuan Garden, famous for its man-built rock formations. Composition-wise this is an interesting example of the rare double frame-in-frame technique.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO speed: 800
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Shanghai Shopping Malls 4

Another one in this series about the hypermodern (and often visually very interesting) shopping malls of Shanghai. Like the previous one, this one was taken in the Aegean Palace.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 250
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Strength

Just another chains shot for my art blog. I took this one in the garden at the entrance of the Shanghai Old Town.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 250
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

A flower?

When we were walking through the Frysian town of Drachten earlier this week, I came across a dumpster. Most people would see the dumpster, shrug, and move on. I always check dumpsters for abstract shot opportunities, and I was once more not disappointed. Rust has created beautiful colours and patterns.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 200
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Nanjing Usnisa palace 4

Continuing this series of the impressive Nanjing Usnisa palace. This is a detail of the roof in the hall of a thousand Buddhas.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Disgust

The yearly manifestation Kerst in Oud Kampen (Christmas in Old Kampen) is a street theater show that often offers special photography opportunities. One of the interesting parts this year was a large paper tree that included over a dozen different sculpted paper faces. Here is another one (for the first one, see here).

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO speed: 100
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Shanghai High-rise Buildings Abstract 5

Another shot in the series of abstracted Shanghai high-rise buildings. As in most cases, the conversion to black and white helped emphasize the inherent line play.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal length: 22.1 mm
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO speed: 200
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Foursome

During the two-day festivities of Kerst in Oud Kampen, four large containers were stacked, 2x2, near the Buitenkerk. A good opportunity for an abstract shot at the point where they met.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal length: 17.7 mm
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO speed: 500
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Plenty of parallel lines

A curious abstract shot with an almost mandatory double diagonal composition. It's very difficult to see what it actually is - a storage cabinet spotted in a Shanghai bookstore at Fuzhou Road.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO speed: 800
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Squashed bug

A funny sculpture we came across in an Amsterdam shopping corridor. A Volkswagen beetle pressed into a round shape. It is an art piece by Ichwan Noor, titled Beetle sphere.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/25
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Yellow fever

Another example of how rust on metal surfaces can create beautiful abstract images - you just need to spot the opportunity. This is in an abandoned factory complex at the Yangshupu Road, which now houses the Shanghai Factory Outlet fashion shopping mall.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal length: 8.9 mm
Exposure time: 1/50
ISO speed: 250
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Face off

Back to Amsterdam, where we came across this intriguing sculpture at the Rokin. It is by Mark Manders, a Dutch/Belgian sculptor and it was installed in 2017. The bird is a nice touch.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO speed: 200
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Hieroglyphs

I shot this in the largest Starbucks in the world - a complete building on the main shopping street of Shanghai, Nanjing Road. A complex combination of in-situ roasting and endless rows of seats to enjoy your cuppa joe. I went for this title because the depiction of the Chinese characters on this large machinery reminded me of hieroglyphs.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal length: 22.1 mm
Exposure time: 1/25
ISO speed: 400
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0

Happy 20... wait what?

Happy 2019, and never mind the confusion. This is a detail of a container sprayed with artificial snow that was used during the yearly Kerst in Oud Kampen (Christmas in Old Kampen) manifestation.

Camera: Canon IXUS 170 handheld
Aperture: f/3.6
Focal length: 4.5 mm
Exposure time: 1/50
ISO speed: 100
Post-processing: Picasa 3.0