Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the bund skylines look very sifi you capture the metallic quality very well over the flower wall ric On Oct 24, 2014, at 11:07 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Douglas, Richard, Jay, Nathan > Thanks for looking > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> Selfies and Pei Pei for me, I think. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 23 Oct 2014, at 18:46, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information