Shanghai street scene, by Danny Chau
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Danny Chau was born in Hong Kong, moved to England as a child and grew up in Sunderland. As a teenager he and his family moved to London and he's been there for a good 30 years or so, establishing a top specialist black and white print studio in the process. A couple of years ago he moved back to Hong Kong and has been busy re-discovering his Chinese homeland.
The picture featured today as our Picture of the Day is a shot Danny recently took while on a trip to Shanghai. I've lost count of the number of cameras Danny has used. This time he used a Leica M8. The picture has a de saturated look about it, which actually makes it stand out. There is so much going on, with one cyclist staring ahead, one peering back, and of course the nearest looking quizzically at the photographer. We've had an internal debate about the very elaborate framing that Danny has applied to the picture, which we think is probably unnecessary. But that doesn't alter the fact that Danny's image is a very fine one!
You can see more of Danny Chau's work in his DPNow gallery - and it's well worth a look.
Would you like one of your pictures featured on DPNow's POTD?
We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had just over10,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are politely rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
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