November Romance - A photostory

One morning this week I looked out the window in our kitchen and noticed the falling leaves, blue skies and a bright sun shining down on Gao An Lu. I checked the thermometer and noticed that it had climbed  up close to 20 °C - despite autumn not unusual for Shanghai at this time of year.

Whilst sipping my coffe I remembered a friend of mine telling me that a few weeks ago she went to visit a forest park located northeast of the City. She assured me that it was worth going and that you could actually find some forest there (I have learnt by now that  even though it says forest, it doesn´t necessarily mean that there  is one..) It sounded like a good place to go to explore on a sunny day. So I decided to venture out with my camera in search for shooting a little story about autum in Shanghai.

A 20 kiliometer cab ride laterI found myself close to the Huangpu river but the area seemed more like  some kind of industrial estate. Was I really in the right place? But as soon as I walked through the entrance gate I knew I was right and was swallowed by green lawns, trees, lovley waterponds - and an uncoutable amout of wedding photoshootings taking place.

Weddings and Wedding photography is a big thing here in China and  quite different to us in Europe. It is well worth dedicating a whole post to it one day. But I want to find out about it some more before writing about it. All you need to know for now  is that the photos play a major part and are usually taken before the wedding.

For today I just want to invite you to  join me  for a stroll through Gongqing Forest Park on a sunny tuesday afternoon. Come and find out that even a big concrete city like Shanghai can have a romantic touch, that it can be colourful and that people here are not much differen to anywhere else in the world.

It is only when we look behind the scenes you will notice that some things are a little different than home :-)

Zuo Ba! Let´s go: This way to the ticket office: ENTER HERE