Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]China is hue, so Doug Herr would have plenty of subjects to photograph, just not in cities. On Oct 23, 2014 1:25 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Your email contains a salutary lesson for some people here in Ireland who > think nothing but opportunities beckon in China. No doubt they do, but > there's seems to be a bit of a downside: Doug Herr might have trouble > finding subjects.... > > Anyway, it has to be Eye Contact for me. > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" < > jayanand at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" < > psm-1857 at googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:46 PM > Subject: [Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai > > > Neela & I have just returned from our maiden trip to China, which kicked >> off in Hong Kong and ended in Beijing, following the tourist trail about >> which a friend of mine, who travels often on business across the length >> and >> breadth of China, calls "Showcase China". In many ways I found China >> fascinating, and full of contradictions. The infrastructure is amazing, >> but >> quite a bit seems wasteful - Chongqing, for example seems to have a modern >> suspension bridge across the Yangtze every kilometre or two, and all the >> cities I visited had many unoccupied completed residential skyscrapers, >> and >> plenty of half finished ones where no work was apparently going on. The >> cities are spotlessly clean, but the air pollution has to be seen to be >> believed - we did not see the moon and stars during the whole trip save >> for >> the first night in Shanghai. Amazingly, there are no birds or even insects >> visible in the cities at all - dead from the air pollution, I suppose. In >> fact, I just saw two wild birds on the whole trip - which included four >> nights on a boat on the Yangtze! Again, the way the historical sites are >> preserved and protected, and the same time designed to be tourist >> friendly, >> in places like Xi'an and Beijing, is just very well done. Local guides >> spoke surprisingly frankly to us about the pros and cons of life there, >> and >> gave valuable glimpses of personal history to emphasize the points made, >> and were not scared of criticizing Mao, the wasteful infrastructure >> spending or laws like the "One Child Policy" either. Most were college >> graduates who had majored in "Tourism English"! >> >> Anyway, here are some pictures from Hong Kong and Shanghai. All >> photographs >> with the Fuji X100S or Fuji XE-1 with either the 35mmf1.4 or the 56mm f1.2 >> lens mounted: >> >> *Hong Kong* >> >> Occupy Central - the few days we were there, the students seem to have >> gone >> home - the protests restarted the day after we left: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141008-034.jpg.html >> >> Bird Garden: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141008-079.jpg.html >> >> Conversation: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141008-572.jpg.html >> >> Shopkeeper: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141009-626.jpg.html >> >> *Shanghai* >> >> Pudong (Grain deliberate) a three vertical frame panorama: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141010-190.jpg.html >> >> The Bund at Night: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141010-165.jpg.html >> >> The Bund in Sunlight: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-716.jpg.html >> >> Cigarette Break: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-718.jpg.html >> >> Smartphones: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-721.jpg.html >> >> Selfies: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-743.jpg.html >> >> Eye Contact: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-875.jpg.html >> >> Pei Pei: >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China- >> 20141011-797.jpg.html >> >> Please see LARGE >> >> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >