[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

Lluis Ripoll lluisripollphotography at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 08:43:39 PDT 2014 

Jayanand,

Yes, this is true, and we don’t know how can react other people from a different culture.

Cheers
Lluis


El 26/10/2014, a las 03:40, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> escribió:

> Luis, Tina
> Thanks for looking.
> 
> One is always more comfortable in one's home environment than as a
> itinerant traveler, especially without any means of communication - nobody
> knows English there, and I do not know Mandarin! So I tend to capture what
> I can, a trifle uncomfortably, because I have no idea what the reactions
> could be, or what the culture allows and because of that I am always wary
> of getting too close - which is the basic problem with travel photos, I
> feel. For example, I remember trying to photograph a bunch of people
> playing Mah Jong once in a small town, and being roundly admonished by the
> local guide, because the players believe that such acts bring bad luck, and
> if they had seen me, things could get ugly....
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Lluis Ripoll <
> lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alicante, Spain
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>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> YNWA
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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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