These are the pictures I took while Elena and I visited Shanghai.

The hotel curtain sucked--and the stray morning light woke me up. I fought it and tried to go back to sleep, then a little voice in my head said, "Morning light is perfect for shooting cityscape." So I jumped up and took a few shots, and then plopped back down to sleep.

I get bored waiting for food to arrive.

We drove by a patch of these plastic looking little flowers, and I just had to jump out of the car to take a shot. Our driver was very patient.

And then I saw more pretty things several feet away. . ..

And more. . .. Is that a bee?

Look mom! It's a bee!

I think the driver is getting annoyed. Ok, one more and I'll jump back into the car.

Wait, just one more! Ok, we can go now.

I can't resist symmetrical things--I get shutter itch.

Mandatory hotel mirror shot

I realized there's not one single picture of myself during this whole trip. I couldn't be bothered to ask Elena to take one, so it's self-service I guess.

These alien creatures were taking over the hotel.

Bar lights are always cool. You get drunk faster that way.

This looks like a hotel brochure shot.

A lounge singer belts out classic Terresa Tang tunes while we have buffet dinner. She does Terresa's style very well.

Going shopping in one of the busiest shopping areas in Shanghai. The wide end of my Tamron 28-75 gets a work out.

Check out this guy. He's one of the live ads standing around the shopping area.

Holy cow it's Sam Fisher! What's he doing hanging out at a mall in Shanghai? (Actually, Ubisoft Shanghai ported one of the Splinter Cell console games, and the rendering engine they developed ended up getting used by the French team on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.)

Food court at the mall. Not nearly as impressive as the ones in Malaysia.

Elena shops for shoes, and I decided to take a photo of my toes. On the left, you can see I've been a good boy and cutting the nail straight across, as I was instructed to do to prevent ingrown toenail pain. On the right, you can see what happens when your entire toenail gets ripped out. It's about halfway grown in the picture.