Relaxing at the side of the road

A lilong district viewed from a pedestrian overpass at the Yan'an Elevated Road

Terminal 2 at Shanghai's Pudong Airport

Qibao old town, in suburbs of Shanghai - more or less a shopping street with a bridge over a canal, it's an old village swallowed up by the city and is a short walk from a subway station on Line 9

A rather decrepit canal in an unrenovated district of Suzhou's old city

Garden of the Master of the Nets (Wangshi Yuan 网师园), the smallest and one of the most famous of Suzhou's classical chinese gardens

Birdwatching along the sea coast in suburban Shanghai, near Da Shui Lake in Nan Hui (南汇) district on land fill where they're enclosing former salt marshes and wetlands for future development

A new Holiday Inn along the sea coast in suburban Shanghai, near Da Shui Lake in Nan Hui (南汇) district on land fill where they're enclosing former salt marshes and wetlands for future development

Women playing cards in the entrance to Caobao Lu subway station

Gates to front gardens of housing along Xinle Lu in French Concession - the ground floors are being used for retail but they have to find ways to attract customer's attention when the setback is so large