[Leica] Russell's Hong Kong Visit

[Richard Man]

I see he inherits your beard :-)

Thanks. Never get tired of HK photos

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:32 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> HI Luggers,
>
> Russell, my number one (and only) son came down from Tokyo with his girl
> friend, Kseniya, for a short weekend visit.
> Keniya is a Byelorussian lady who took her MBA in Japan - in Japanese -
> and presently works for an American company selling medical equipment - so
> not only is she beautiful but she's very smart too.
> Some pictures:
>
> We went up to the Peak on Sunday when there was a break in the weather -
> which has been misty and damp. Here's Russell and Kseniya taking a selfie.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RussSelfieKsen.jpg.html
> >
>
> Here's the family, Esther, Kseniya, me and Russell at the lookout point on
> the peak. Later in the day we went across the harbour to the ICC building -
> just behind Kseniya's head in the picture - and had a drink in the Ozone
> Bar located at the 118th storey of the Ritz Carlton.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/EKHRPeak.jpg.html>
>
> Here's a six panel panorama of Hong Kong harbour from the Western side of
> the Peak looking toward Kowloon.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/6PanHarWes.jpg.html
> >
>
> And here is the view from Kowloon across the harbour looking back at Hong
> Kong Island and Victoria peak.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/4PanOzone.jpg.html>
>
> This is a four panel panorama processed in CS 6. I took a lot of photos to
> make panoramas but window reflections from inside the bar made the assembly
> of the wider
> panos impossible. And there was no way to step outside on the 118th floor
> to view without glass in order to avoid the reflections. If there had been
> a way I would have, of course, despite the height and the wind at that
> altitude!!
> Ozone, at the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong(118/F, International Commerce
> Centre, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, opened in March 2011, tops the list of
> the highest bar in Asia at 118 floors, beating out Shanghai Grand Hyatt's
> Cloud 9 (87 floors) and the Shanghai Park Hyatt's 100 Century Avenue (92
> floors). (The highest bar in the world is At.Mosphere, on the 122nd floor
> of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai). Highest, in this scenario, means from street
> level, not sea level.)
>
> Please look large.
> C&C always welcome. All pictures taken with the Fuji XT 1 and the
> redoubtable 35mm 1.4 which is, at present, my favourite walk around kit.
>
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