Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] I'm Back!
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sun Nov 13 08:58:08 2005

Probably from burning (brown) coal?


> From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:55:05 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] I'm Back!
> 
> At 07:55 AM 11/13/2005, you wrote:
>> Which parts of China were you in where the smog was so bad?  Or is it 
>> every
>> industrial part?
>> 
>> Eric
> 
> Eric -  It was everywhere!  We had high hopes that getting out in the
> rural areas would mean getting away from the air pollution, but it
> seemed just as bad in the country.  People there talked about how
> much worse it is the summer and said that autumn is actually the
> clearest time of the year.  We did have a few clear days after rain
> and wind blew the smog away, but I have lots of photos where you
> can't see more than a block because of the thick haze.  And it's not
> fog - it burns your throat and eyes.  Many of the people who worked
> in the streets or rode bikes wore surgical masks.  It was worse in
> Shanghai than Beijing, though.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
> 
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