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[GaryJP]

I understand all about the pollution - I'm allergic to it.

My girlfriend had a life-threatening asthma attack last year that involved last minute resuscitation in a hospital emergency room. The most frightening experience of my life.

Outside Hong Kong she doesn't even get minor asthma symptoms. And she's FROM HK.

I know many people who have left the place because their children get asthma here they don't get anywhere else. The conductor of the HK Philharmonic relocated his kids outside of HK because they developed asthma here. And it's hardly the plant life causing it.

Dismal light is probably the least of the issues.

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[Jade Willow]

I understand all about the pollution - I'm allergic to it.

My girlfriend had a life-threatening asthma attack last year that involved last minute resuscitation in a hospital emergency room. The most frightening experience of my life.

Outside Hong Kong she doesn't even get minor asthma symptoms. And she's FROM HK.

I know many people who have left the place because their children get asthma here they don't get anywhere else. The conductor of the HK Philharmonic relocated his kids outside of HK because they developed asthma here. And it's hardly the plant life causing it.

Dismal light is probably the least of the issues.

My doctor told me never to go to HK or China again without a supply of Prednisone - the doctor in HK wouldn't give it to me for some reason. I don't think I could live there for that reason.

 

[Stephen 06]

ukdelboy wrote:

But beware - loyalties in this forum can change at the speed of light. One wrong word in favour of the opposition and you will be banished into the wilderness - or you can change camps. The desperate to be popular brigade choose to change sides, and start the whole process all over again.

Ha ha...know a certain lady that is an expert in that! On her "third" side now!

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Stephen

 

[GaryJP]

ukdelboy wrote:

But beware - loyalties in this forum can change at the speed of light. One wrong word in favour of the opposition and you will be banished into the wilderness - or you can change camps. The desperate to be popular brigade choose to change sides, and start the whole process all over again.

Ha ha...know a certain lady that is an expert in that! On her "third" side now!

Or maybe, for some people, it's about the specific issue, NOT the side.

There are people here with whom I have argued vociferously on some issues, but with whom I see very much eye to eye on others. Timur and I, for example, have different degrees of irritation regarding orbs but have discussed many aspects of the camera in a friendly manner.

I thought that was maturity. But I agree plenty here don't seem capable of it.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=40588113

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“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” Ernst Haas

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[Silent Oracle]

ukdelboy wrote:

But beware - loyalties in this forum can change at the speed of light. One wrong word in favour of the opposition and you will be banished into the wilderness - or you can change camps. The desperate to be popular brigade choose to change sides, and start the whole process all over again.

Ha ha...know a certain lady that is an expert in that! On her "third" side now!

Ha ha...I have a PM from a certain someone here making leud accusations about another female here. Wonder who? DPR might be keenly interested.....

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Jada

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[rattymouse]

I think the hardest thing to overcome in photography (besides orbs) is the mundaneness of your own surroundings. We all think the photographic grass is greener somewhere else.

I'd accept the mundane surroundings if we got decent light.

This time of year, the light is grey and filtered through blank white clouded skies. When we're not dealing with that, we're dealing with hideous air pollution our government will do nothing about because it comes from mainland China. That's why you end up deciding some of your best shot opportunities are indoors and at night, which is precisely the worst situation for this camera.

Funny, Hong Kong air always seems * a lot * cleaner since I live in mainland China. Except in deep summer. Then the ozone in Hong Kong can be oppressive.

 

[GaryJP]

This time of year, the light is grey and filtered through blank white clouded skies. When we're not dealing with that, we're dealing with hideous air pollution our government will do nothing about because it comes from mainland China. That's why you end up deciding some of your best shot opportunities are indoors and at night, which is precisely the worst situation for this camera.

Funny, Hong Kong air always seems * a lot * cleaner since I live in mainland China. Except in deep summer. Then the ozone in Hong Kong can be oppressive.

Ha ha. That's a common experience.

A friend of mine has just returned to Hong Kong after spending two years working in Beijing. She too feels she can breathe here.

On the other hand, some friends who have just returned from Switzerland are gasping here.

It's frightening what we get used to.
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“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” Ernst Haas

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[ukdelboy]

Okay, there's some jousting going on, it's not even so much about the camera anymore but about the posters. Still it's more amusing than appalling IMO.

Yep! Totally agree. Problem is, there are a few over sensitive types in here who become appalled over the slightest little thing. They take everything far too serious.
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Best regards,

Del