The Shanghaiese look to the east, where Pudong rises into the sky just across the Huangpo River. At left is the 88-story Jin Mao Tower, still the tallest building in China and one of the tallest in the world. The building to its right, the 101-story World Financial Center, now under construction, will soon surpass it. I made this image from inside a car that was moving along a Shanghai expressway, letting me create foreground and middle-ground layers of light standards, plus two foreground buildings that provide striking contrast to these skyscrapers. These layers are integrated by the repeating rhythms – the vertical light standards echo the thrust of skyscrapers behind them, just as the verticality of the skyscrapers themselves rhythmically echo each other.