[Leica] Hong Kong panos and stories

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Nice views. It seems that HK tycoons have similar ethics to Spanish 
politicians.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 07 Feb 2016, at 16:09, 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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