[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

Sun Oct 26 11:11:07 PDT 2014

During the whole month that we spent in China, I only had one person get
slightly miffed that I was taking photos and that was a Tai Chi instructor
in a park.  Everybody else seemed very happy that I wanted to take their
photos.  The people were wonderful!

http://tinamanley.smugmug.com/Asia/China/China/i-tBzzDTh

Tina

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> 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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> > > >>>
> > > >>> 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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