Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/27

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Subject: [Leica] Piper at the Ferry
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:21:19 -0500
References: <7F401ABF-279F-49E1-891C-CB28DCB9B970@netvigator.com> <C61ACBDE.4D6C1%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

That's the ferry pier, not a mall.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> 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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In reply to: Message from cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer) ([Leica] Piper at the Ferry)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Piper at the Ferry)