Guangzhou
Crossing the bridge on a Saturday summer night A view of Waterloo Bridge from Charing Cross Busy harbor nights under fairy lights The London Saturday Night River Fever If you haven’t seen Kowloon or Guangzhou The world has many faces but there is only one Orient Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Happy days never go away They stay safe with cherished memories Fast access and redundant The image of bustling cities An umbrella to protect from bad spells It was China 2011 Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Inside looking out, a dreamy view from a mall Perspectives spotlights and framed mirror images Multiple reflections of two girls chatting at a window You can’t hear the voices they look a hologram A postponed reality, outside spills inside Or is it the other way ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The Iron Dragon is the keeper of the gates While the usual overburdened bike passes through Worlds apart quietly collide, mix and mingle And the Empire grows, like flower in its crystal vase Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The ubiquitous tricycles with their bulky loads The urban vision of a thriving city that’s alive A throbbing metropolis, half human, half concrete Booming and breathing statue of a future in motion Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Perspective of a giant shopping mall Goldfish dreaming of bullion bubbles Floating like spaceships in a definite space The fish tank stands like a partition wall The unattainable is on both sides Silent contemplation from inside Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The amazing fashion wholesale malls of Guangzhou This one is about boudoir lingerie, you would have guessed The world is awakening and the sun rises in the East This elating feeling of the ‘American Dream’ of the early sixties Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Caught in the commotion of the milling crowd In the darkened alleys of a Guangzhou shopping mall A young beauty shines in her red wedding dress Just a glimpse, like a press scoop, a minute fantasy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Driving like flying on the great Guangzhou flyovers Catching a glimpse of human swarms and armies Disappearing between a zebra crossing and a pylon Giant cities are shredders extracting their pound of flesh Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
To all friends and followers I wish a Happy New Year A 20-20 that should be at least a best average May your wishes come true All the best (Guangzhou TV tower under the storm China 2011) Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries