[Leica] Hong Kong panos and stories

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Stunning. All three.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> While in Hong Kong we were hosted by our son’s investment banker friends
> to drinks and dinner at the China Club, owned by Sir David Tang,
> and housed in the 13 - 15th floors of the old Bank of China building.
> There is a terrace on the 15th floor and we sat out for drinks and I made
> the following three vertical panos of the views to the north, south and
> east from the Bank of China.
>
> First some information on the China Club:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Club
>
> And here are the panos:
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/Lippo3panW.jpg.html
> >
>
> This one is looking East from the 15 floor balcony of the China Club
> located in the old Bank of China building. The new Bank of China building,
> designed by Chinese American I.M. Pei,
> is to the right of the picture and the Lippo Centre - left centre of the
> picture used to be called the Bond Centre after the Australian entrepreneur
> who built it. Alan Bond
> went to jail for financial skulduggery which resulted in his bankruptcy.
> Released from prison he died after open heart surgery.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/3PanVertIFCW.jpg.html
> >
>
> This is the view to the North - with the IFC (International Finance
> Centre) on the left side and across Hong Kong Harbour the ICC
> (International Commerce Centre)
> in Kowloon. Both buildings were built by Sun Hung Kai Property - owned by
> the Kwok family. The two Kwok brothers have been quarrelling over the
> control of the company since their
> father died in 1990 and they are ruled by their matriarch mother. The
> youngest son, Thomas, is serving 5 years in jail for bribery to the former
> Hong Kong Chief Secretary - who is also in jail for accepting the bribe.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+2016/3PanMidlevelW.jpg.html
> >
>
> And this is the view to the south - looking up toward the Mid levels -
> where we used to live. In the far left corner is the cupola of the Court of
> Final Appeal - which started out as the French Mission
> Building in the early 1900’s and in the lower centre of the picture is St.
> John’s Cathedral - which has the distinction of sitting on the only
> freehold land in all of Hong Kong. All other land is long term leasehold -
> following old UK practice.
>
> The panos were taken with the Fuji XT1 and the 35mm f1.4 lens, hand held
> and assembled in CS6.
>
> Please view large - C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard
>
>
>
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