Andrew - Beautiful scenes from Dubai!
Crossing Dubai Creek on that ultra-cheap ferry service was the best experience we had there, apart from a dawn falconry experience in their Desert Reserve.
Congrats Allen, your talent very deservingly should get Leica's attention.
Thanks Andrew, I have not spent much time on the upper concourse level (it has often been closed whenever I visited), so it was a new experience for me. Interesting to know your thoughts about the SL. I used one only briefly and enjoyed it very much in a way slightly different from the M system. Perhaps more as a DSLR alternative. I do shoot the M240 with the EVF somewhat regularly, so here the SL would be better. I loved its EVF and it was easy to manually focus ~50mm and longer M lenses without even using magnification or any other aids. But I do use the M EVF's tilt function quite a lot... a redeeming feature in light of its otherwise rather low resolution and laggy-ness.
David, at least the old City Hall building was spared demolition due to public outcry and found new life as a courthouse. Can't say the same for the old, ornate City Hall building here in my town that saw the wrecking ball in the name of progress (as did much of the city's core during that time in the ~1950s).