A view of Shantou + Xiamen + Gu Lang Yu with my trusty LX2

[Wolfgang]

Street-side Sunset in Xiamen - I love this shot because while i was composing the shot, a loud noise caused a flight of small birds to take flight...


Street Side Sunset in Xiamen


I'm not too sure if this came across by i saw the chance for a quick snap, capturing the divide of the kinds of vehicles as well as the obvious socio-economic gulf between the people in China...

[Wolfgang]

Taken on Gu Lang Yu, a beautiful & romantic island with fabulous architecture...

[Wolfgang]

A church on Gu Lang Yu, this looks so amazingly similar to Chjimes...

[Wolfgang]

This fabulous looking fluffball is a resident of NaYa hotel, a boutique hotel on Gu Lang Yu itself...



This is the skyline of Shantou... It was very disconcerting yet vaguely familiar. This sense of disconnect could be felt as acutely as one would feel when reading a Haruki Murakami novel....

[eosdigital]

Hi,when you entered Gu Lang Yu,were u pestered by the crowd of touts?

[Wolfgang]

Originally Posted by eosdigital Hi,when you entered Gu Lang Yu,were u pestered by the crowd of touts?

Thankfully, no. We hired a guide from the hotel desk which helped i reckon.

[Wolfgang]

You can almost imagine martial pugilists dueling over these roofs from movies of a bygone era...

[Wolfgang]

A streetside wet market in one of the side streets of Xiamen.... The cacophony of noise was something to behold, with voices of people bargaining, fowls clucking irritably in cages and even toots of bicycle horns... The was most definitely a feel of festivities in the air...

[Wolfgang]

A group of ladies making "Ang Ku Kway" by the street... The was something entreating about the way she looked at the camera which i was trying to brandish as discreetly as possible...

[Wolfgang]

A view of canvas sheets strung up as makeshift shelters at the market....

[Wolfgang]

I took a wrong turn somewhere in the market and i chanced upon an old house with very a very interesting balcony...

[Wolfgang]

A street side "Ang Ku Kway Stall"

[Wolfgang]

A snap of the Xiamen skyline.... observe the contrast between this & the one from Shantou and the obvious divide and gap of affluence...

[Wolfgang]

A night shot of "Zhong Shan Lu". Its the equivalent of what we have in Orchard and they do have pretty up market boutiques and street side food vendors which gave the entire place a bustling feel.

[Wolfgang]

We're at the end of the series that i took with my LX2 & I do hope you have enjoyed viewing the pictures.

Happy Lunar New Year.

[zoossh]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang I'm not too sure if this came across by i saw the chance for a quick snap, capturing the divide of the kinds of vehicles as well as the obvious socio-economic gulf between the people in China...

this catches my eye. i like the glare of the sun.

but wonder if the black portion on the left has retrievable details or is details seen on your monitor due to difference in calibration? the same issue for the centre of "A group of ladies making "Ang Ku Kway" by the street".

[zoossh]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang I took a wrong turn somewhere in the market and i chanced upon an old house with very a very interesting balcony...

and very interesting shot. thinks the "tilt" works great in this upward looking shot. can i ask for permission to post it in the newbie thread to illustrate the use of tilts in dynamic angles?

[Wolfgang]

Originally Posted by zoossh and very interesting shot. thinks the "tilt" works great in this upward looking shot. can i ask for permission to post it in the newbie thread to illustrate the use of tilts in dynamic angles?

Sure.

[Wolfgang]

Originally Posted by zoossh this catches my eye. i like the glare of the sun. but wonder if the black portion on the left has retrievable or is it seen on your monitor due to difference in calibration? the same issue for the centre of "A group of ladies making "Ang Ku Kway" by the street".

Well, I adjusted the contrast/curves during PP and thats how it turned out in the end.

[U-nik]

Nice series.