[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

Richard Man richard at richardmanphoto.com
Sat Oct 25 22:43:13 PDT 2014 

Hi Jayanand, yes, a lot of Chinese, even the ones in Hong Kong, do not like
to be photographed.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > >>>
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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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