A city in the clouds

Posted by Joel Martinsen, December 4, 2009 1:03 PM

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Wuhan Evening News
December 4, 2009

Fog shut down the city of Wuhan yesterday morning. Expressways connecting the city to the outside world were shut down, some for as long as nine hours.

Yesterday's fog was the heaviest out of three days' worth of misty mornings and created some stunning cityscapes that were captured by Wuhan Evening News photographers.

Here's a selection, beginning with a front-page photo that resembles a traditional landscape painting:

Ma Qing / WEN

Yang Tao / WEN

Cai Xiaozhi / WEN

Jiefang Park - Yang Tao / WEN

Jin Siliu / WEN

The Changjiang Daily, a sister paper to the Wuhan Evening News, published its own gallery of images. Here's the unearthly photo that ran on the front page: