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Shanghai - Pearl of the Orient Tower

The Pearl of the Orient TV Tower (东方明珠电视塔) - short also known as "Pearl Tower" or in Chinese 东方明珠塔. Taken from the Garden Bridge (Chinese name: 外白渡桥 waibaiduqiao).

 

This shot is with the "Tungsten" white balance setting" and slight PP: due to the hazy conditions the contrast was ever so slightly increased.

 

The Pearl Tower construction started in 1991, finished in 1995 and at that time it was surrounded by a few 1 to 2 story buildings, wooden shacks and fields(!) (one must mentally flatten out all the surrounding high risers) and a shipyard a little to the north.

 

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Taken on December 27, 2009