Pinoy Yuppie Husband Travels to Zhu Jia Jiao

We had our first weekend in Shanghai. Original plan to go to the most beautiful lake in China was sinked by gloomy weather forecasts. I met up with the other Pinoy Yuppie Friends. Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore was there with his D80 and new tripod with trigger-type camera mount. Before going to Zhu Jia Jiao, we had two stops. First was to the camera shop as our Soon-To-Be-Yuppie friend bought his Nikon D40 with 18-105mm VR Nikor lens plus a few other accessories. He hit a bargain considering he bought the lens for only RMB 1800 (PhP12,200)! Second stop was in the Shanghai Outlet store for our Oh-So-Yuppie friend's shopping needs. She bought a Nike jacket and bag that according to her was either hard to find (tagal ko na hinahanap ito) or necessity (pang overnight bag, wala ako nito eh) peace!

After lunch, we proceeded to Zhu Jia Jiao. It's an old fishing village with old houses, apartments and stores. It has many criss-crossing canals with a major river running through the village. We rode the boat from the starting station to the next station just crossing the river for RMB 60.

I used my ever reliable IXUS55 point and shoot camera again. I played with various settings and presets like my now favorite My Color to accent and highlight different colors.

Shanghai Outlet Store. It was 34 degrees centigrade Hot.

Feels like Arizona Mills but with more greens

SFF? hmmm...

Nike Bench?

Zhu Jia Jiao Water Village

Old boats plying the river with the Old-style homes in the background

Fisherman by the Canal

There's a story behind this picture and it involves Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore. As he was trying to photograph the fisherman, the fisherman stood up and started talking to Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore. Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore was surprised and actually thought the man was mad at him for taking his picture without permission. We had a good laugh when the man fished out a film instant camera from his bag and ask Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore to take his picture while he was fishing! Hahaha!

One of the old-style boats plying the busy main canals. This photo was taken using My Colors function with Green as the accented color.

Here's Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore thinkering with his Nikon D80
Old-style apartments beside the river (Tabing-Ilog style)

Old-style homes

River shot while riding the boat

Narrow streets lined with old-style homes

Residence # 127 flanked by two high growing shrubs.  Photographed using My Colors function green Color accented

The other side of the street with the multitudes of shopping stores

Colorful fishes are some of the items for sale

Pinoy Yuppie Husband's friends - (L-R) Soon-To-Be-Yuppie, Not-So-Yuppie-Anymore and Oh-So-Yuppie!

Chinese girl by the bridge

My favorite stolen shot.  I was in the small bridge taking photos of the buildings and my three friends when she posed for her boyfriend.  I did not have anymore batteries and I was just using the camera's viewfinder.  I just took one photo of her posing.  I was surprised it came out good.  The light wind blowing some of her hair and her skirt was a bonus!