[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[RicCarter]

the bund skylines look very sifi

you capture the metallic quality very well over the flower wall

ric


On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Douglas, Richard, Jay, Nathan
> Thanks for looking
> Cheers
> Jayanand
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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>> Selfies and Pei Pei for me, I think.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
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>> Nathan Wajsman
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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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