[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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.
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> On 23 Oct 2014, at 18:46, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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