From Russia With Love

in #photography8 years ago

Last time I visited Shanghai we did something I called Speed sightseeing. Instead of taking the subway from the train station into the city I choose to go by taxi. I was jumping from one side to the other in the back seat to snap as many photos as I could. Not so easy to take photos from a moving vehicle.

In this photo I captured what is called the Shanghai Exhibition centre that is erected in the center of Shanghai and it was actually built in commemoration of the China and sino-soviet friendship. The original name is the sino-Soviet Friendship Building.

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The design draws heavily on Russian and Empire style neoclassical architecture and it is quite a marvel amidst the otherwise very modern city skape of Shanghai.

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Nice picture.

Thanks !

With love from Vancouver bro, nice shot! :)

Thanks buddy ! Hope you are well :)

Very beautiful building. Very Russian Aura, You are right. , A neoclassical Russian style. Petersburg Russia came to my mind :)

It's cool because shanghai has a lot of this mix of architecture, there even used to be a small area in Shanghai called little Moscow, where the Russian population lived. This was around a hundred years ago though

Wow ! Very interesting 😊

Not bad from a moving vehicle!

Thanks buddy ! I snapped quite a few, this one was the better one hehe

Oh, yeah, the shot certainly has a very soviet feel to it, but I guess you could see a bit of China too. It looks even more soviet with the cookie-cutter apartment buildings behind it.

Haha yea the buildings behind are stereotypical in this sense

Superb pic mate. It reminds me a little of North Korea haha!

Thanks man! It's definitely a very communistic feel to it !

It certainly does how that feel about it.

i must say you got a nice shot while moving.

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