[Leica] The Flower Market and the Bird Market in Hong Kong

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

I liked the BlueBird image, Howard. Very nice!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/25/2014 4:38 AM, H&ECummer wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> On Thursday morning  Richard and Joe Leung and I met the the B1 exit of 
> the Prince Edward Station of the MTR and visited the Hong Kong Flower 
> market which is even more busy than usual leading up to the Chinese New 
> Year holidays.
>
> Here's Richard from the shadow side exercising his M9:
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/RichM9.jpg.html>
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> And here's Joe, laughing at me for out drawing him with my Auto focus Oly 
> EM 1:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/JoeM8.jpg.html>
>
> Flower Clipper from the shadow side:
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/FlowerCut.jpg.html>
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> Flower seller - I especially like the catch lights in her eyes:
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/FlowerSeller.jpg.html>
>
> Purple Orchid (macro close up with the Oly 12 - 40 manual focus with 
> magnified focus peaking)
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/PurpleOrch.jpg.html>
>
> After spending quite a long time at the Flower Market we strolled over to 
> the Bird Walking Park not far away.
> Here older gentlemen come with their caged birds to give them an outing 
> and to sit and smoke and talk to each other.
> We were a bit late and there weren't too many bird walkers around but we 
> did meet this gentleman who was
> willing to have his photograph taken with his bird.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/BirdWalker.jpg.html>
>
> Here's another view of Mr. Bird walker - with eye contact between him and 
> his bird:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/BirdWalker1.jpg.html
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> A lively blue bird - species unidentified yet - in his cage - I liked the 
> shadows and the eye catch light.
> I also liked that the bird's owner had seed feeder and water feeder in 
> colours to match the bird. Very artistic:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/BlueBird.jpg.html
>
> >From the Bird Park we were taken by Joe to one of his nearby Chinese 
> >Restaurants for lunch. Joe is a great source of
> information about good inexpensive Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong and we 
> had a nice meal with just a bit of camera stacking:
>
> Joe and me taken by Richard with my Oly EM 1. Richard noted the camera 
> handled the back lighting very well:
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> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/HCJL.jpg.html>
>
> And finally here is Richard again with his weapons of photo war:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK201314/RichCam.jpg.html>
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Howard.
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