Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com