Far Back
By: Gustav Hoiland
Category: Observation
| Aperture: | f/7.1 |
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| Focal Length: | 22mm |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | NIKON D80 |
Took a quick cruise through historyville after wrapping the day’s labors. Through November of 2009, a piece of time in Shanghai. I think by this point I could confidently read the Shanghai map and venture pretty far out on my wheels. Instead of choosing a destination and weaving through it all to get there I think I was taking it a bit more slowly, just meandering through areas I hadn’t yet seen.
Ugh. So much goodness. Not in the sense of comfort or coolness, but variety. A richness of differences and quirks spread across the land. The drabness of leafless trees and low-rise concrete… just grey forever here. But it’s on a human scale. Not behind any gates, not cordoned off. Just a humble dwelling with some simple retail.
Not sure what I’m getting at. But I had completely forgotten about this ride / moment until I breezed back through the rectangles.
Out to midtown rain now.
Gustav Hoiland 
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