[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Richard Man]

I meant huge of course, the hue is grayish :-)
On Oct 23, 2014 5:31 PM, "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> 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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