Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice shots, especially the third one Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:20 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > The new Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth was docked at the Ocean Terminal in > Tsim Sha Tsui today and I took some pictures as I rode across from Central > on the Star Ferry. Taken with the Panasonic GH2 and the 14 - 140 zoom and > lightly processed in CS4. > A couple of them are in this folder: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/QE/ > > Some info on the ship: > Launched Oct 2010 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth > Country of Registry Great Britain > Speed 23.7 knots > Gross Tonnage 90,900 GRT > Guest Capacity 2,068 > No. of Crew 996 > Length 964.5 feet (the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall including > the antenna that King Kong swings from) > Width 106 feet > Draft 25.9 feet > > Tsim Sha Tsui was humming with the 2000 passengers from the Queen competing > with the Mainland tourists to see who could be fleeced the fastest. :-0 > I bought what I had to and got out of there. > C&C always welcome. > Cheers > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >