Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Panos of the Costa Classica
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:05:15 -0800
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Nice pictures, but...  suicide pacts? Was the service that terrible?

Henning


On 2012-01-26, at 5:07 PM, H&ECummer wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
> This was the coldest Chinese New Year in Hong Kong in 60 years - 
> temperatures as low as 7 degrees C - in the city and cooler in the New 
> Territories.
> Despite that we were out and about. We were drawn to the cruise ship the 
> Costa Classica - which plies a cruise route around Asia - and is owned by 
> the same company as the ill fated cruise ship grounded off Tuscany. The 
> Classica has had it share of troubles too - running aground in Shanghai, 
> passengers in suicide pacts, and problems with Chinese visas for
> passengers.
> 
> Here's a two panel pano of the ship tied up at the Ocean Terminal
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2012Panos/2PanoCostaW.jpg.html>
> 
> and here is a 5 panel pano of the chilly Hong Kong harbour from the Tsim 
> Sha Tsui side of the Star Ferry terminal.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2012Panos/5PanCostaW.jpg.html>
> 
> Both panos taken with the GH2 and the 20mm f1.7 processed in CS4
> 
> Please look large.
> 
> All C&C welcome
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
> 
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Henning Wulff
henningw at archiphoto.com






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