Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Piper at the Ferry
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:41:34 -0400

Terrific writing and description but all I'm seeing is a kid playing a
bagpipe what looks like a brand new mall.
I'm not seeing any fog.
Everything looks brand new.

What happened to the Brigadoon's stuff did we miss it?
Or did it come later?


Mark William Rabiner



> From: H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:49:05 +0800
> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Piper at the Ferry
> 
> Hi Luggers,
> The other night we took the Lantau ferry into Central for dinner with
> a friend from London.
> The ferry was slow and late because of fog. When we stepped off the
> ferry we thought we had been
> transported Brigadoon style to another time and place. The skirl of
> the bag pipes drew us down
> the foggy pier to the Star ferry entrance and there in the night was a
> young Chinese piper playing the pipes for
> the Celtic Society. Wonderful! The magic moment was recorded by 100's
> of tourists. Why the Hong Kong Tourist Association
> doesn't play on this amalgam of East and West is beyond me!
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+Pix/Piper1.JPG.html
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/cr97wk
> 
> Taken with a Nikon D700 and Nikkor 50mm AF 1.4
> ISO 3600 1/125 @ f1.4
> 
> Cheers
> Howard
> 
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