Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information