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Subject: [Leica] Russell's Hong Kong Visit
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 20:01:07 +0100
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You all look smart Howard!

The apple never falls far from the cherry tree ... ;-)

Thanks for sharing
Amities
Philippe

Le 3 mars 15 ? 18:49, Richard Man a ?crit :

> I see he inherits your beard :-)
>
> Thanks. Never get tired of HK photos
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:32 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> HI Luggers,
>>
>> Russell, my number one (and only) son came down from Tokyo with his  
>> girl
>> friend, Kseniya, for a short weekend visit.
>> Keniya is a Byelorussian lady who took her MBA in Japan - in  
>> Japanese -
>> and presently works for an American company selling medical  
>> equipment - so
>> not only is she beautiful but she's very smart too.
>> Some pictures:
>>
>> We went up to the Peak on Sunday when there was a break in the  
>> weather -
>> which has been misty and damp. Here's Russell and Kseniya taking a  
>> selfie.
>>
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RussSelfieKsen.jpg.html
>>>
>>
>> Here's the family, Esther, Kseniya, me and Russell at the lookout  
>> point on
>> the peak. Later in the day we went across the harbour to the ICC  
>> building -
>> just behind Kseniya's head in the picture - and had a drink in the  
>> Ozone
>> Bar located at the 118th storey of the Ritz Carlton.
>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/EKHRPeak.jpg.html 
>> >
>>
>> Here's a six panel panorama of Hong Kong harbour from the Western  
>> side of
>> the Peak looking toward Kowloon.
>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/6PanHarWes.jpg.html
>>>
>>
>> And here is the view from Kowloon across the harbour looking back  
>> at Hong
>> Kong Island and Victoria peak.
>>
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/4PanOzone.jpg.html 
>> >
>>
>> This is a four panel panorama processed in CS 6. I took a lot of  
>> photos to
>> make panoramas but window reflections from inside the bar made the  
>> assembly
>> of the wider
>> panos impossible. And there was no way to step outside on the 118th  
>> floor
>> to view without glass in order to avoid the reflections. If there  
>> had been
>> a way I would have, of course, despite the height and the wind at  
>> that
>> altitude!!
>> Ozone, at the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong(118/F, International Commerce
>> Centre, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, opened in March 2011, tops the  
>> list of
>> the highest bar in Asia at 118 floors, beating out Shanghai Grand  
>> Hyatt's
>> Cloud 9 (87 floors) and the Shanghai Park Hyatt's 100 Century  
>> Avenue (92
>> floors). (The highest bar in the world is At.Mosphere, on the 122nd  
>> floor
>> of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai). Highest, in this scenario, means  
>> from street
>> level, not sea level.)
>>
>> Please look large.
>> C&C always welcome. All pictures taken with the Fuji XT 1 and the
>> redoubtable 35mm 1.4 which is, at present, my favourite walk around  
>> kit.
>>
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