Bird's Nest at night - Part 2

Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - East View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 2.5 sec, 5.9 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 19:58 31 May 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - South East View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 5 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 20:04 31 May 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - South East View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 6 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 20:04 31 May 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - West View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 13 sec, 7.9 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 21:01 31 May 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - West View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 1.3 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 19:48 1 June 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - West View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 2 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 19:52 1 June 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - West View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 2.5 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 19:54 1 June 2009

Bird's Nest at night - Part 1

Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - South View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 15 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 20:21 31 May 2009


Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest) - South View
Leica D-LUX4, F/8.0, 15 sec, 5.1 mm, ISO 80, Pattern Mode, 16:9, 20:25 31 May 2009

Crowne Plaza Guihe at night

Crowne Plaza Guihe Jinan (济南贵和皇冠假日酒店)
3 Tian Di Tan Street, Jinan, China
Ricoh GR Digital, F/2.4, 1/3 sec, 5.9 mm, ISO 64, Spot Mode, 20:15 19 June 2007
* Originally photographed by Xueyou WANG, and published under his permissions.
* Image has been cropped, resized, and modified.

Daming Lake at night

The Primary Gate of Daming Lake (大明湖)
271 Minghu Road, Jinan, China
Canon IXUS 50, F/2.8, 1/10 sec, 5.8 mm, ISO 50, Pattern Mode, 20:35 28 March 2007

My favorite tea cafe

Shunshan Tea Cafe (舜山茶人)
27 Qianfoshan East Road, Jinan, China
Canon IXUS 50, F/2.8, 1/6~1/13 sec, 5.8 mm, ISO 50, Pattern Mode, 16:46 24 March 2007

Transit via Beijing

A cop standing on the Chang'an Street, Beijing
Canon IXUS 50, F/4.9, 1/250 sec, 17 mm, ISO 50, Spot Mode, 10:56, 11 March 2007

Jinan's winter in my imagination

The Moat at early morning, Jinan, China
* Originally photographed by WANG Xueyou, photoshopped by CHEN Jing.
* Published under authors' permissions.

Jinan's winter

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The Moat at early morning, Jinan, China
Ricoh GR Digital, F/8.6, 1/2 sec, 6 mm, ISO 64, Spot Mode, 07:48, 30 December 2006
(Photographed by WANG Xueyou, published under author's permission)
* The next post, Jinan's winter in my imagination is located here.

A digital photographer just loves DV

One of my good friends, Yao, who loves photography since teenage years with an old American camera got from his grandfather, had focused on choosing his first digital camera (DC) for eight years before making his decision to own one. In the meantime, he reviewed all the DCs he ever knew or tried, and advised various people to buy their cameras. He loves comparing technical specifications of digital cameras, especially CCD's type, size, resolution and material.

What kind of great digital camera did he finally choose? Canon DC40, a DVD video camcorder, not a dedicated camera! Of course, Canon DC40 can be a digital camera, if the user uses it for stills.

Although I am afraid that it might not be a good choice for me or other people but it seems to be a right choice for him. I think it is just a compromised solution. However, some of his pictures show that using a DV as a DC is workable.

All the photos in this post were taken with video camcorders, in The Park of Spring City (former Jinan Botanic Gardens) or The Park of Daming Lake in Jinan, China. The author is Yao Xiang; and the pictures have been reposted here under his permission. Click on the pictures to view them in original size, 2304*1763 or 2048*1536.


Waterdrop on lotus leaf
Canon DC40, F/2.8, 1/720 sec, 61mm, Spot mode, 10:00, 9 August 2006.


Duckweed
Canon DC40, F/2.8, 1/600 sec, 13mm, Spot mode, 10:58, 9 August 2006.


A swimming duck
Canon HV10, F/5.2, 1/120 sec, 61mm, Pattern mode, 21:44, 18 August 2006.


A dragonfly staying on its boat, a floating leaf
Canon DC40, F/2.8, 1/720 sec, 61mm, Spot mode, 11:56, 9 September 2006.


A couple of geese
Canon DC40, F/2.8, 1/400 sec, 61mm, Spot mode, 09:49, 24 September 2006.


A goose looking for its partner
Canon DC40, F/4, 1/120 sec, 36mm, Spot mode, 09:59, 24 September 2006.


Air pollution in Jinan
Canon DC40, F/4, 1/400 sec, 6mm, Pattern mode, 08:48, 1 October 2006.


Umbrellas
Canon DC40, F/4, 1/100 sec, 12mm, Pattern mode, 09:26, 1 October 2006.


An unknown photographer (about 40 metres away)
Canon DC40, F/4, 1/210 sec, 61mm, Pattern mode, 10:58, 1 October 2006.

I Love Beijing Tiananmen

"I Love Beijing Tiananmen", this is the title of a well-known Chinese nursery rhyme, especially for those people like me who born in China before 1970s. Tiananmen is a symbol for China, as the Opera House for Australia.

On 18 September 2005, one year ago today, I took the following night scene of Tiananmen while standing at the west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. That day was also the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Chinese lunar calendar. We, two workmates and I, just flew back to Beijing from Urumqi, after attending the workgroup conference of GB/T 19668, a set of Chinese national standards specialising on auditing and monitoring information system.


Canon IXUS 50, F/4.9, 0.6 sec, Exp +2 step, ISO 50, 21:24, 18 September 2005.
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Yesterday, as I mentioned in my last post, I took a picture of Sydney Opera House while on the Harbour Bridge. It was a coincidence that I recorded two symbolized buildings of two countries just at the beginning and the end of a one year time period.

The beautiful Xinjiang

Where was I today in 2005? Kanas! Time flies.

Kanas is a very small town located at the most north-west corner of China, the heart of the Altay Mountains in Xinjiang Autonomic Region of the country. and bordering Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

(to be continued)