Shanghai Lilong Lane (Day)

a Shanghai-style shikumen lilong lane, two-storey grey brick terraced houses with red brick bands lining the left and right sides, black-lacquered wooden doors in carved stone door frames with no inscriptions, bamboo laundry poles with a few plain cloths hanging high up from upper windows, potted plants beside the doorsteps, a stone-paved lane running to an arched passage at the far end, and an empty patch of paving in the centre about 4 metres from the camera