[Leica] Russell's Hong Kong Visit

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Nice. Kseniya looks really Eastern European in the family picture?I 
recognise her facial features as very Polish/Belorussian.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 03 Mar 2015, at 13:32, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> 
> HI Luggers,
> 
> Russell, my number one (and only) son came down from Tokyo with his girl 
> friend, Kseniya, for a short weekend visit.
> Keniya is a Byelorussian lady who took her MBA in Japan - in Japanese - 
> and presently works for an American company selling medical equipment - so 
> not only is she beautiful but she?s very smart too.
> Some pictures:
> 
> We went up to the Peak on Sunday when there was a break in the weather - 
> which has been misty and damp. Here?s Russell and Kseniya taking a selfie.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/RussSelfieKsen.jpg.html>
> 
> Here?s the family, Esther, Kseniya, me and Russell at the lookout point on 
> the peak. Later in the day we went across the harbour to the ICC building 
> - just behind Kseniya?s head in the picture - and had a drink in the Ozone 
> Bar located at the 118th storey of the Ritz Carlton.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/EKHRPeak.jpg.html>
> 
> Here?s a six panel panorama of Hong Kong harbour from the Western side of 
> the Peak looking toward Kowloon.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/6PanHarWes.jpg.html>
> 
> And here is the view from Kowloon across the harbour looking back at Hong 
> Kong Island and Victoria peak.
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/4PanOzone.jpg.html>
> 
> This is a four panel panorama processed in CS 6. I took a lot of photos to 
> make panoramas but window reflections from inside the bar made the 
> assembly of the wider
> panos impossible. And there was no way to step outside on the 118th floor 
> to view without glass in order to avoid the reflections. If there had been 
> a way I would have, of course, despite the height and the wind at that 
> altitude!!
> Ozone, at the Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong(118/F, International Commerce 
> Centre, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, opened in March 2011, tops the list 
> of the highest bar in Asia at 118 floors, beating out Shanghai Grand 
> Hyatt?s Cloud 9 (87 floors) and the Shanghai Park Hyatt?s 100 Century 
> Avenue (92 floors). (The highest bar in the world is At.Mosphere, on the 
> 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai). Highest, in this scenario, 
> means from street level, not sea level.)
> 
> Please look large.
> C&C always welcome. All pictures taken with the Fuji XT 1 and the 
> redoubtable 35mm 1.4 which is, at present, my favourite walk around kit.
> 
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