[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Richard Man]

China is hue, so Doug Herr would have plenty of subjects to photograph,
just not in cities.
On Oct 23, 2014 1:25 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Your email contains a salutary lesson for some people here in Ireland who
> think nothing but opportunities beckon in China. No doubt they do, but
> there's seems to be a bit of a downside: Doug Herr might have trouble
> finding subjects....
>
> Anyway, it has to be Eye Contact for me.
>
> Douglas
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <
> jayanand at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" <
> psm-1857 at googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:46 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai
>
>
>  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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