Happy weekend-following-the-thread-anniversary everyone! Here is another set of images from the Southern Gulf Islands, this time with a theme of ferries and their terminals. Once again, all were taken with the 50-135 f/3.5 Ai-s on my Fuji X-T2.
Thanks for the good wishes everyone. Can you believe I encountered a situation this morning that motivated me to walk back to my car to get my camera? I did, with the 135 f/2.8 Q.C. AI mounted... nice light this morning.
The monkeys and the man on the motorcycle in the marketplace are phenomenal. Hope you’re printing all these, they’ll shine on paper in a larger format.
cadman342001 wrote:
More from India. I'm getting confused now which pics are from where !
Anyways, this is the bicycle of the guy who goes to the Monkey Palace every day to feed the monkeys. I was waiting for them to try and steal it or ride it but alas, it was not to be ! Probably know which side their bread is buttered.
The market square with the Ghanta Ghar clock tower in the middle. It was built by Maharaja Sardar Singh (1880-1911) from whom the market takes it name.
CGrindahl wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes everyone. Can you believe I encountered a situation this morning that motivated me to walk back to my car to get my camera? I did, with the 135 f/2.8 Q.C. AI mounted... nice light this morning.
I haven't printed anything from our trip yet, Samy suggested a coffee table book and I also have lots of bare walls.
Guess I better pull my finger out as I still have half the pics still to process and everything I've done so far has only been exported at web size.
Andy
Mathieu18 wrote:
The monkeys and the man on the motorcycle in the marketplace are phenomenal. Hope you’re printing all these, they’ll shine on paper in a larger format.
CGrindahl wrote:
Thanks for the good wishes everyone. Can you believe I encountered a situation this morning that motivated me to walk back to my car to get my camera? I did, with the 135 f/2.8 Q.C. AI mounted... nice light this morning.
Yes, very weird. Since they migrated together with Oath things have been a bit confusing. Well finally for me, the old account is working again. Could as well have been what Steve said, trouble between the chair and the keyboard... :P
Kristian
cadman342001 wrote:
Fingers crossed for you Colin.
Yeah, I was going for the blue hour too, just as the buildings were lighting up.
Trying to stitch a 31 vertical shot pano in LR as we speak, it previewed but now LR is not responding
Kristian, the new sign in protocols are ridiculous, so confusing, I'm sharing my files atm without actually logging into my Flickr account !
The Mig and Sabre Jet at the Hazy. Taken with the 24 f2 Ai. The lighting there is bright enough to hand hold but the ISO does need to be upped to 1600. Thanks for looking.
Scott
I’d agree with Samy. A coffee table book on good paper would be something people would pick up and enjoy. A few favorite on the wall never hurts either. I don’t always use mine but I’ve been a fan on my Canon Pro 100. Decent quality and can be found very cheap a few times a year if you want to print your own.
cadman342001 wrote:
Thank you, you are too kind !
I haven't printed anything from our trip yet, Samy suggested a coffee table book and I also have lots of bare walls.
Guess I better pull my finger out as I still have half the pics still to process and everything I've done so far has only been exported at web size.
I thought it apt to show these two images as an opener from Hong Kong.
These were taken on our first day touring a very wet Kowloon. It is good to be posting again (no pun intended)
I thought it apt to show these two images as an opener from Hong Kong.
These were taken on our first day touring a very wet Kowloon. It is good to be posting again (no pun intended)
I was there to shoot some railroad museum images, but in the street leading to the museum, there were several old cars parked, likely completely unrelated to the museum, as they appeared like derelicts in daily use, rather than some sort of collector ride.
Got back home this morning. Sad because we had a great time but also relieved because we came through without too much hassle.
Apart from the multi-mile human chain peaceful protest we didn't really experience anything untoward.
However, there was always a chance that we could have been caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Saw lots of 'youth' wearing the uniform of black clothing and a rucksack with protective gear.
These guys use social media to full extent to organise flash-mobs and finance their campaign via crowd funding. Pretty slick.
Hong Kong stock index is down 25% since the protests started and hotels are now running half empty according to local newspapers. [Excellent deals to be had!]. Hotel staff are being laid off or told to use up vacation. The taxi drivers were mixing it up the other night by driving in convoy and waving Chinese flags right next to the human chain protest. With tourist trade being down the taxi drivers get hit financially too.
Let's hope they sort it out in a sensible way before something nasty happens.
Well I told Curtis he inspired me to post something. It has been over a month. We are in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan which is north of 80% of the population of Canada!
Taken at the site of a relic of the cold war. K.I. Sawyer Air Force base, now closed, it was the scene of daily sortees flown out to the limits of the Russian border flown by B-52's carrying nuclear payloads. Détente forced the closing of the base.
Cold, cold winters and lack of any maintenance these non museum workhorses stand their ground.
Please forgive the work product. Using a laptop, no mouse and small screen!!
HK's Chi Lin Nunnery on a very wet, grey, and overcast day.
The weather was less than ideal for the first day of a vacation.
Upside was that the place was basically empty.
Adjacent to the Nunnery is the Nan Lian garden.
Again, hardly anyone around.
A place of tranqility amonst the towering housing blocks that surround it.
