Lille: Rambla de Shanghai Photo

Photographer’s Note

Lille is this years European Cultural Capital. One of the attractions is the Rambla de Shanghai. From March 6 to July 15 the Rue Fadherbe in the centre of Lille is converted to a Chinese boulevard with two gigantic video screens, copies of the famous neons of Nankin (with names and logos of Chinese companies: some of them are restaurants others foodstuff companies), electric trees and a Tea House at the Place du Theatre.
Displayed here is one of the 2 sets of Nankin neon signs.

PS-E2 tech: skewed, cropped, levels adjusted, saturation (master) boosted, sharpened (the whole and selected parts with the brush), fill flashed parts of the picture, sky despeckled and blurred and saved for the web

eleparc, jhm, bfly, sunny, carper, Cool-ice, Steely, Spoony, cmartos, nwoehnl, Georges, Isabelle, pamastro, Jeppe, pingu23 has marked this note useful

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eleparc (24059) 2004-05-10 1:51

thanks bert for sharing this with us... i did not know lille had become that chinese;-) interesting shot!

jhm (83352) 2004-05-10 2:05

Zeer kleurrijke foto Bert, had u de nota niet geschreven dan was men in China en niet in Rijsel Frankrijk. Alles mooi in beeld ook al is het bijna avond, goed werk geleverd Bert.

bfly (5737) 2004-05-10 3:19

beautiful picture..neon signs are so powerfully colored yet I can still see lots of fine details from the houses at the back..little china from french windows...

sunny (3068) 2004-05-10 4:18

The neon signs are lovely colourful patterns here and form a nice composition, Bert! The darker buildings and sky put more impact and outline them in a fine way. Very well done!

carper (65696) 2004-05-10 4:20

Mooie kleuren, goede foto Bert,
Goede composition, good note, good job, thanks

Cool-ice (5289) 2004-05-10 5:05

Excellent and original, this opposition between the old building's wall of an european city and the colorful asian signs.
Well seen and done, Bert !

Steely (895) 2004-05-10 5:08

HAHAHAHA! no colossal KTVs?

Good shot Bert, Incredible that they put up those neon signs for a shot period only
Cool colours :D

Spoony (3539) 2004-05-10 8:46

Nice photo no doubt. It´s a diferent culture, and I like this kind of photos. Thank for sharing it.
Very well done and seen.

Hanssie (9133) 2004-05-10 12:53

Ik dacht ook al, dat je aan de andere kant van de wereld zat !
Mooie kleuren en het is net echt !

cmartos (6086) 2004-05-10 13:25

Wow! are you sure that this is Lille? :-). What a colourfull composition here. Very nice paterns dispalyed by these really converts this boulevard to a chineese one! Very good exposure and framing. Very well done Bert! Thanks for sharing.

nwoehnl (120) 2004-05-10 13:25

Kind of a double pattern you spotted and captured here, Bert - the colorful neon signs, and in between the windows with the small balconies in front of them. Quite an odd find at first sight, but after having seen some of last year's installations in my birthtown of Graz, Austria (they were cultural capital 2003) I am not too surprised.
Good shot, I like the luminosity of the signs.

Added to Roland's "neon at night" theme.

Georges (11185) 2004-05-10 15:09

Une image pas si evidente que ca a faire avec c'est enseignes trés lumineuse.
Trés bonne composition bien presentée.
Bravo Bert

Rinie_Hoff (9334) 2004-05-10 17:58

Hi Bert, beautiful and colorful picture. The composition is nice and strong with the old building behind it. It makes a good contrast with the Neon art. Very nice picture indeed!

Isabelle (9014) 2004-05-10 20:09

very cool composition, with that subtle diagonal on top, bert.
from the thumbnail i though you had gone to china!
very much TE spirit. great notes!

pamastro (7213) 2004-05-10 23:35

Great colors, again. The neon is so vividly captured. It's great. Very energetic and alive. The details are great, too, throughout. Maybe there was a little too much fill flash on the right side since the top seems just a bit washed out. But it doesn't take me away from seeing how great you captured the neon. Very nice job.

Jeppe (18623) 2004-05-11 10:52

Oh lovely and colourful image you spotted and captured here Bert. You chosen a very fine time of the day, with a rest of light to give us the buildings.

Very fine work - I like to watch this :-)

pingu23 (588) 2004-05-11 10:53

It looks so ... unreal !! Typical french buildings with those chinese neons !! I'm really not used to it !!!
Nice picture by the way, very colorful !

charmante (1053) 2004-05-20 2:46

I liked all your urban-architectural shots ( for I'man architect myself)& admired the angle, the frame & the subjects.
but this one, I like the visible contrast (dark/ light) & the hidden contrast ( china/frane , east/west)
nice capture!

Stepan (27175) 2005-09-16 14:54

I can't believe this is in Lille !
I suppose a great effect !
Thanks.
Stéphane

sergio1 (12150) 2005-12-07 7:03

Hola Bert
Bonita composición y iluminación, realmente una gran toma.