[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Lluis Ripoll]

Jayanand,

I missed these ones, Selfies is a good capture, it made me smile, also smartphones. Nice colors combination in The Bund on Sunlight and Cigarette Break, I like too Bird Garden. Nice set, but your usual sets from Chenai or Wildlife are better for me.

Cheers
Lluis

El 25/10/2014, a las 14:31, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> escribió:

> the bund skylines look very sifi
> 
> you capture the metallic quality very well over the flower wall
> 
> ric
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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>> 
>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> On 23 Oct 2014, at 18:46, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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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