Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:36:27 -0400
References: <CAH1UNJ1Kb+B_+hqdTem8fnObHaHfppOmG6FSxUDyX6DbGpRjJA@mail.gmail.com> <94518722-2C0A-4B6D-8DE8-E810062D56F6@frozenlight.eu> <CAH1UNJ0QG8c4QCAP09WNn_gGbeP3RFMZcSARjTpPmJ+sjXKsFQ@mail.gmail.com> <C15EA288-07D1-4CF5-983C-8B7B69C045E8@cartersxrd.net> <0DA31E4C-3137-4870-A176-E559A221423B@gmail.com>

+1!

Tina

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Lluis Ripoll <
lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jayanand,
>
> I missed these ones, Selfies is a good capture, it made me smile, also
> smartphones. Nice colors combination in The Bund on Sunlight and Cigarette
> Break, I like too Bird Garden. Nice set, but your usual sets from Chenai or
> Wildlife are better for me.
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
> El 25/10/2014, a las 14:31, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> escribi?:
>
> > the bund skylines look very sifi
> >
> > you capture the metallic quality very well over the flower wall
> >
> > ric
> >
> >
> > On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Douglas, Richard, Jay, Nathan
> >> Thanks for looking
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
> >> frozenlight.eu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Selfies and Pei Pei for me, I think.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Nathan
> >>>
> >>> Nathan Wajsman
> >>>
> >>> Alicante, Spain
> >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >>> http://www.greatpix.eu
> >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> >>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> >>>
> >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
> >>>
> >>> YNWA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 23 Oct 2014, at 18:46, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Neela & I have just returned from our maiden trip to China, which
> kicked
> >>>> off in Hong Kong and ended in Beijing, following the tourist trail
> about
> >>>> which a friend of mine, who travels often on business across the
> length
> >>> and
> >>>> breadth of China, calls "Showcase China". In many ways I found China
> >>>> fascinating, and full of contradictions. The infrastructure is
> amazing,
> >>> but
> >>>> quite a bit seems wasteful - Chongqing, for example seems to have a
> >>> modern
> >>>> suspension bridge across the Yangtze every kilometre or two, and all
> the
> >>>> cities I visited had many unoccupied completed residential
> skyscrapers,
> >>> and
> >>>> plenty of half finished ones where no work was apparently going on.
> The
> >>>> cities are spotlessly clean, but the air pollution has to be seen to
> be
> >>>> believed - we did not see the moon and stars during the whole trip
> save
> >>> for
> >>>> the first night in Shanghai. Amazingly, there are no birds or even
> >>> insects
> >>>> visible in the cities at all -  dead from the air pollution, I
> suppose.
> >>> In
> >>>> fact, I just saw two wild birds on the whole trip - which included
> four
> >>>> nights on a boat on the Yangtze! Again, the way the historical sites
> are
> >>>> preserved and protected, and the same time designed to be tourist
> >>> friendly,
> >>>> in places like Xi'an and Beijing, is just very well done. Local guides
> >>>> spoke surprisingly frankly to us about the pros and cons of life
> there,
> >>> and
> >>>> gave valuable glimpses of personal history to emphasize the points
> made,
> >>>> and were not scared of criticizing Mao, the wasteful infrastructure
> >>>> spending or laws like the "One Child Policy" either. Most were college
> >>>> graduates who had majored in "Tourism English"!
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, here are some pictures from Hong Kong and Shanghai. All
> >>> photographs
> >>>> with the Fuji X100S or Fuji XE-1 with either the 35mmf1.4 or the 56mm
> >>> f1.2
> >>>> lens mounted:
> >>>>
> >>>> *Hong Kong*
> >>>>
> >>>> Occupy Central - the few days we were there, the students seem to have
> >>> gone
> >>>> home - the protests restarted the day after we left:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141008-034.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Bird Garden:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141008-079.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Conversation:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141008-572.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Shopkeeper:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141009-626.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> *Shanghai*
> >>>>
> >>>> Pudong (Grain deliberate) a three vertical frame panorama:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141010-190.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> The Bund at Night:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141010-165.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> The Bund in Sunlight:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-716.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Cigarette Break:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-718.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Smartphones:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-721.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Selfies:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-743.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Eye Contact:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-875.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Pei Pei:
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141011-797.jpg.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Please see LARGE
> >>>>
> >>>> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> Jayanand
> >>>>
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-- 
Tina Manley
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai)
Message from ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter) ([Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai)
Message from lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll) ([Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai)