Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stunning. All three. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > While in Hong Kong we were hosted by our son?s investment banker friends > to drinks and dinner at the China Club, owned by Sir David Tang, > and housed in the 13 - 15th floors of the old Bank of China building. > There is a terrace on the 15th floor and we sat out for drinks and I made > the following three vertical panos of the views to the north, south and > east from the Bank of China. > > First some information on the China Club: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Club > > And here are the panos: > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/Lippo3panW.jpg.html > > > > This one is looking East from the 15 floor balcony of the China Club > located in the old Bank of China building. The new Bank of China building, > designed by Chinese American I.M. Pei, > is to the right of the picture and the Lippo Centre - left centre of the > picture used to be called the Bond Centre after the Australian entrepreneur > who built it. Alan Bond > went to jail for financial skulduggery which resulted in his bankruptcy. > Released from prison he died after open heart surgery. > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/3PanVertIFCW.jpg.html > > > > This is the view to the North - with the IFC (International Finance > Centre) on the left side and across Hong Kong Harbour the ICC > (International Commerce Centre) > in Kowloon. Both buildings were built by Sun Hung Kai Property - owned by > the Kwok family. The two Kwok brothers have been quarrelling over the > control of the company since their > father died in 1990 and they are ruled by their matriarch mother. The > youngest son, Thomas, is serving 5 years in jail for bribery to the former > Hong Kong Chief Secretary - who is also in jail for accepting the bribe. > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/3PanMidlevelW.jpg.html > > > > And this is the view to the south - looking up toward the Mid levels - > where we used to live. In the far left corner is the cupola of the Court of > Final Appeal - which started out as the French Mission > Building in the early 1900?s and in the lower centre of the picture is St. > John?s Cathedral - which has the distinction of sitting on the only > freehold land in all of Hong Kong. All other land is long term leasehold - > following old UK practice. > > The panos were taken with the Fuji XT1 and the 35mm f1.4 lens, hand held > and assembled in CS6. > > Please view large - C&C always welcome. > > Howard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information