Hopes for the sparkling twilight or early morning skyline shot of Shanghai dimmed on the morning of my last day in China when I awoke to more overcast skies. Still, a cab ride down to the riverfront couldn’t hurt. If there’s no sunrise, surely there will still be something to shoot.

The color that was lacking in the sky was provided by the silk garments worn by the wonderful people of Shanghai who seem to come out every morning to exercise along the promenade. I previously posted a shot of a gentleman flying a kite that is one of my favorites from this trip. It was also shot this morning under the grey blanket of clouds and just goes to show: it’s not always what you are looking for, but what you find.

My Alamy goals are progressing well. Since my last post I’ve keyworded 95 images (my goal for those 5 days was only 50) and I uploaded another 223 which passed quality control earlier this evening. It’s a bit of a gamble to upload so many images at one time because, if any one is rejected by QC, the entire batch gets chucked out. Happily, everything sailed through.

I can’t get overly confident in my goals, however. Starting this weekend, I’ll be on the road for two weeks and probably won’t get any keywording done at all. I’ll need to either make up the slack before I leave or have lots of catching up to do when I get back. At least for now I can say that I’m ahead of schedule.