Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice story and photos, Howard! 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 20 Mar 2015, at 10:44, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > Hi Luggers, > Went along to the Apple Store in IFC II Central this morning to buy a new > portable hard drive to save all the stored data > for the clean up scheduled tomorrow at the Genius Bar to rectify my > Macbook Pro and Esther?s I Pad after my > first Hack Attack. Had one of the Genii back up both machines and while > waiting took the attached pano: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/2PanFerrisTent.jpg.html> > > It shows the reclaimed land in front of IFC II which has been transformed > into a ferris wheel site (a la London Eye) > and the tents of a Cirque du Soleil type show with horses in the > performance. It is a two panel hand held pano stitched together in CS6 > and processed with same. As you can see the Southwest monsoon has blown in > and it is now getting hot and very humid in HK. > > The second picture is Lao Yao. He was born in Hong Kong in 1939 - so is > now 75 years old. In 1943 when the US bombing intensified in the attempt > to dislodge the occupying Japanese Mr Yao and his family fled to China. He > was raised there taking primary, secondary and university studies. Later > he moved back to Hong Kong. > We talked while each of our computers was being repaired. He asked me what > countries I preferred and I asked him his choices. He said, surprisingly, > Russia, Estonia and Latvia. Then it came out that in addition to speaking > Cantonese (his maternal language), studying in Mandarin, he had learned > Russian because in his time Russia and China were friends. He learned his > fluent English while working in Hong Kong. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/5357C.jpg.html> > > In deference to Dr. Ted I have processed Lao Yao?s photo into B&W. An > interesting old fellow. > > The 27mm f2.8 Fuji Pancake lens turns the XT 1 into an innocuous looking > point and shoot and it is sharp at f5.6 - f8.0 out to the corners and fast > focusing and unobtrusive. > Glad I got it. > > Please look large. C&C always welcome. > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >