SMLProjects photos on Flickr

Project Rebirth (www.ProjectRebirth.org)

Chronicling the Rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City

Screens (11 Total)

+ 5. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Documentary

+ 6. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal

+ 7. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail

Awards

+ Web Marketing Association's WebAwards 2005: Best Non-Profit Website

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson / LBi International)

+ Leslie Freeman (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Larry Burks (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Miles Kafka (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Paul Wood (Google)

信號山信号山 Signal Hill (HDR) / 青島青岛 Qingdao / 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121013.G12.00880-00881-00882.HDR.ChinaTourism.CN.Qingdao.SignalHill by See-ming Lee

Design Interact: Web Site of the Week (www.designinteract.com/sow/122004/)

Week of December 20: Project Rebirth Web Site

Project Rebirth is an online chronicle of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. As immediate and compelling as a physical visit, this project gives people the opportunity to observe and share in the progress of the reconstruction.

Newly released at the time the team was considering technical specifications, thisProject Rebirth Web site site uses the FlashMX development environment to full effect. Functioning as a portal to extensive content, the beauty of this Web site lies in its ability to be current and historical. With a visual design that appropriately takes a back seat to the content, it records ideas, images and interviews in their original context while also allowing for their evolution.

Primary content consists of a series of video images (presented in a timeline format) captured by six, 35mm time-lapse cameras positioned by Project Rebirth around the World Trade Center site. They shoot one frame every five minutes—and will continue to do so for ten years. The images enable the viewing of the rebuild as it occurs on any date; in seconds, visitors can see the footage of a single day. There are also interviews with reconstruction overseers, journals by filmmakers and video of major milestones in the redevelopment efforts.

Project Rebirth Web siteThe key challenge for the developers was to create an interface that would incorporate what would ultimately be ten years of film footage, that didn’t inundate visitors and yet communicated the passage of substantial amounts of time. Their solution is an interactive, XML-driven timeline that delivers fluid viewing of time-lapse footage. It provides an appropriate time-based metaphor that also does a nice job of integrating video, audio, imagery and text-based content into a single interface. The time-based experience allows access to any moment in time and provides the ability to navigate the Web site by date and/or event. Our one complaint: The link from the home page, to this main feature, looks far too much like header art. We would have liked to see billing more in line with its importance.

This collaborative effort between Project Rebirth and IconNicholson began in the summer of 2003 and the site launched in September 2004. On average, visitors are staying on the site 19 minutes, which is significant in comparison to Internet-wide stays at sites with similar content. Interestingly, international users comprise 30% of all visitors.

Robert Fisher, creative director

Claudia Chow, art director

See-ming Lee, timeline art director/developer

Larry Burks, information architect

Miles Kafka, CGI programmer/engineer

Tim Murtaugh, HTML developer

Leslie Freeman, producer

Katharine English, Project Rebirth, general manager

Paul Wood, Project Rebirth, technical producer

IconNicholson, site design and development

Web site: www.projectrebirth.org

Web site: www.iconnicholson.com

SML Copyright Notice

“雨過藍天白雲錦” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130430.6D.03713.SQ by See-ming Lee

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The incredible cloudscape today after the storm has passed.

# SML Translate: 雨過藍天白雲錦

+ 雨: rain.

+ 過: after (the rain).

+ 藍: blue.

+ 天: sky.

+ 白: white.

+ 雲: clouds.

+ 錦: brocade (describe the clouds).

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-30T11:26:10+0800

+ Dimensions: 3553 x 3553

+ Exposure: 1/3200 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°25'3" N 114°13'25" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Subject: Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130430.6D.03713.SQ

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity

“雨過藍天白雲錦” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130430.6D.03713.SQ

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #自然 #Nature #CUHK #SciencePark

信號山信号山 Signal Hill (HDR) / 青島青岛 Qingdao / 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121013.G12.00880-00881-00882.HDR.ChinaTourism.CN.Qingdao.SignalHill

信號山是中國山東省青島市市中心的一座山頭公園，正門設在龍山路17號。海拔98米，1984年開闢為公園，山頂修建3幢紅色的蘑菇樓，1989年建6層旋轉觀景樓，為登高觀賞青島建築及海景的佳處。信號山原名龍山（俗稱“大石頭山”），德國占領時期以艦隊司令命名為迪德里希斯山(Diederichs-Berg)（又名信號山(Signal-Berg)），日本佔領時期更名為神尾山，1922年，中國政府接收青島後，定名為信號山。

信号山是中国山东省青岛市市中心的一座山头公园，正门设在龙山路17号。海拔98米，1984年开辟为公园，山顶修建3幢红色的蘑菇楼，1989年建6层旋转观景楼，为登高观赏青岛建筑及海景的佳处。信号山原名龙山（俗称“大石头山”），德国占领时期以舰队司令命名为迪德里希斯山 (Diederichs-Berg)（又名信号山 (Signal-Berg)），日本占领时期更名为神尾山，1922年，中国政府接收青岛后，定名为信号山。

SML Translate:

Signal-Berg (literally Signal Mountain) is a park opened in 1984 and situated 98 meters above sea level at the top of a mountain in the center of Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China. Its main entrance located at 17 Longshan Road.

At the top of the mountain is three large red domes (pictured) and a 6-storey high rotating observation deck which provides an ideal spot for observing the architecture and harbor view of Qingdao.

The hill was originally called Longshan (literally dragon hill) which is also commonly known as “Large Stone Mountain”). During the German occupation period, it was named Mount Diederichs (Diederichs-Berg) (also known as Signal Hill (Signal-Berg). During the Japanese occupation period, it was renamed as 神尾山 (Kamio Hill). In 1922 when Qingdao was finally returned to China, the Chinese government official named it as 信號山信号山 Signal Hill.

SML References:

zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/信号山

SML Setup:

+ Canon G12 / handheld / HDR merged with Photoshop HDR Pro

+ SML.20121013.G12.00880 / ISO 80 - 6.1mm - f/4.5 - 1/80 sec

+ SML.20121013.G12.00881 / ISO 80 - 6.1mm - f/4.5 - 1/500 sec

+ SML.20121013.G12.00882 / ISO 80 - 6.1mm - f/4.5 - 1/100 sec

萬古挺立 (万古挺立) / 山東省泰山山东省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province / 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09496.PS.C23 by See-ming Lee

Original: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8369475568/sizes/o/ 3337 x 5005

# SML Translate

+ 萬: Ten thousand (count). Metaphor for a large number.

+ 古: Ancient, old.

+ 挺: straight, erect, stiff (as adjective)

+ 立: standing upright.

+ 萬古: For thousands of years

+ 挺立: standing up straight and stiff / not moving.

+ 萬古挺立: describes 泰山 Mount Tai standing tall for thousands of years despite everything that is happening in the world (e.g. wars, hazards, disasters which affect both nature and humanity); implies: the calligrapher praises the mountain for having a “principal” and being able to stand still and be itself regardless of external forces.

Most Chinese literature has an implied subtext. To understand precisely what they mean often it is useful to know about the person who wrote it. I don’t know who wrote this text so I can only interpret it in the most “objective” way.

# SML Workflow

This photo was taken into Photoshop for some H+S specifically for the shadow area. The color cast is somewhat troubling so it was taken into the L*a*b mode for curve adjustments — which is by far the best method to tweak Lightness curves without affecting color information. The Lab mode additionally allows for color contrast tweaks which are more natural because it does not affect the lightness information (unlike RGB mode where color + lightness is intertwined.)

# SML Data

+ Serial: SML.20121011.7D.09496.PS.C23

+ Date: 2012-10-11 08:46:56 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 3337 x 5005

+ Exposure: 1/500 sec at f/2.8

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Setup: Handheld

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

+ GPS: 36°15'32" N 117°5'57" E (approximate. GPS unit not available)

萬古挺立 (万古挺立) / 山東省泰山山东省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province / 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09496.PS.C23

# Related SML Universe

+ SML Flickr Set: 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism: sml8.it/smlflickr-chinatourism

“Serenity time-lapse work in progress” / SML.20130308.IP3.09675 by See-ming Lee

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I have been cheating and doing time-lapse videography with video sped up at 1000% but it does not have the quality which I seek. So now I am doing things the proper way.

Pictured is the Canon EOS 7D + the Canon EF 17-40 f/L USM mounted on tripod and set to shoot at 10-second intervals using the Canon TC-80N3 remote.

This way I get full resolution RAW for every frame, thus good enough even to play as a 4K cinema movie while having the sharpness I needed for the video and require no unnecessary time spent rendering the 10x speed increase inside Premiere. Not to mention that it saves space also.

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-08

+ Camera: Apple iPad 3

+ Workflow: Snapseed

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Serial: SML.20130308.IP3.09675

+ Series: Workflow

“Serenity time-lapse work in progress” / SML.20130308.IP3.09675

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #workflow

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #Landscape

“輕風綠葉水流間” / 寧 Serenity (ND LE 30-sec) / SML.20130410.7D.37678.SQ by See-ming Lee

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30-second long exposure on tripod with ND400. This was mainly used to illustrate more clearly how blurry the leaves can get with just a little bit of breeze.

With this capture, I figured out why it is that people who does ND LE always have a bit of architecture or rocks in the scene that sit still, as they provide interesting contrast to an exposure which looks almost fake otherwise.

It is an interesting way to show motion also, as I have learned.

I will take my tripod to the shore as requested. Stay tuned.

# SML Translate: 輕風綠葉水流間

+ 輕: light (describes the wind).

+ 風: wind.

+ 綠: green.

+ 葉: leaves.

+ 水: water.

+ 流: flow.

+ 間: in between (the rocks).

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-10T14:41:57+0800

+ Dimensions: 3439 x 3439

+ Exposure: 30.0 sec at f/22

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Remote, Manfrotto Tripod, H&Y ND2-ND400

+ GPS: 22°25'8" N 114°13'16" E

+ Altitude: 21.9m

+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山恆明街2號聽濤雅苑二樓花園 Garden, 2nd Floor, Vista Paradiso, 2 Hang Ming St, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130410.7D.37678.SQ

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

“輕風綠葉水流間” / 寧 Serenity (ND LE 30-sec) / SML.20130410.7D.37678.SQ

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #水 #Water #石 #Rocks #山水 #Landscape #longexposure #ND

Forms in Green / Historic Brewery Tank, Tsingtao Beer Museum / SML2Qingdao / SML.20121009.7D.08785 by See-ming Lee

56号 Dengzhou Road

Shibei, Qingdao, Shandong, China

0532-8383 3437

“Aerial timelapse setup” / SML.20130314.IP3.09791 by See-ming Lee

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Why should you invest on a good tripod? Well, for situations like these where you need to give 100% trust that your camera won’t accidentally drop from the sky and fall onto people on the street.

Pictured is the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender mounted on Manfrotto tripod + doing aerial timelapse of 1-second intervals of people jogging + bicycling down on the Ma On Shan Promenade 27 floors below.

I am shooting JPEGs for this round so hopefully I won't spend the whole day exporting JPEGs from Lightroom again.

Photographed with iPad 3.

“Aerial timelapse setup” / SML.20130314.IP3.09791

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #延時 #TimeLapse #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLVideography #SMLProjects #Workflow #SMLLab

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #setup #config #Canon #Manfrotto IP3

Caught Fish. Little Egret in Flight. Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong / SML.20130809.7D.49397 by See-ming Lee

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I bought the 100-400 to photograph birds. Most of the time is waiting for them to do something interesting. Some people go fishing. I stand around all afternoon waiting for the birds to go fishing.

It’s harder than you think. Occasionally, I get lucky.

- Camera: Canon EOS 7D

- Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

- Exposure: 400mm, 1/640 sec, f/8, ISO 320

- GPS: 22°23'25" N 114°12'3" E

- Location: Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong

- Date: 2013-08-09

Caught Fish. Little Egret in Flight. Shing Mun River, Shatin, Hong Kong / SML.20130809.7D.49397

Olek + Crocheted “Pet” / SML.20121109.7D.15996 by See-ming Lee

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Olek “petting” her crocheted “guest” at her art installation currently on display at Elements — a shopping mall in Hong Kong

“Canon EOS M on the beach” / 寧Serenity / SML.20130407.IPH5.11326 by See-ming Lee

The sand is a super sturdy tripod for the Canon EOS M, apparently.

I discovered today that there is a beach near me in walking distance. So I took my EOS M to see if it is too far to lug my SLR with me. 15 minutes. Not too bad at all. Expect to see some long exposure photography with water soon.

Photographed with the iPhone 5, processed in Snapseed.

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

“Canon EOS M on the beach” / 寧Serenity / SML.20130407.IPH5.11326

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #SMLSetup

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #夜 #Night #山水 #landscape #IPH5 #CanonEOSM #beach #water

“Happiness is an inside job” by Olek / pano-002-SML.20121218.7D.19984-SML.20121218.7D.19989 by See-ming Lee

圓方 Elements

香港九龍尖沙咀柯士甸道西1號

1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Project Rebirth: Screen 10 of 11: The Rebuild about Ground Zero / 2004 / IconNicholson by See-ming Lee

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Project Rebirth (www.ProjectRebirth.org)

Chronicling the Rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City

Screens (11 Total)

+ 5. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Documentary

+ 6. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal

+ 7. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail

Awards

+ Web Marketing Association's WebAwards 2005: Best Non-Profit Website

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson / LBi International)

+ Leslie Freeman (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Larry Burks (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Miles Kafka (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Paul Wood (Google)

中國深圳地鐵華僑城站A出口 Exit A, OCT Station, Shenzhen Metro, Shenzhen, China 中国深圳地铁华侨城站A出口 / SML.20121216.7D.Pano.HumanLogistics.SML.20121216.7D.18746-SML.20121216.7D.18772 by See-ming Lee

Design Interact: Web Site of the Week (www.designinteract.com/sow/122004/)

Week of December 20: Project Rebirth Web Site

Project Rebirth is an online chronicle of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. As immediate and compelling as a physical visit, this project gives people the opportunity to observe and share in the progress of the reconstruction.

Newly released at the time the team was considering technical specifications, thisProject Rebirth Web site site uses the FlashMX development environment to full effect. Functioning as a portal to extensive content, the beauty of this Web site lies in its ability to be current and historical. With a visual design that appropriately takes a back seat to the content, it records ideas, images and interviews in their original context while also allowing for their evolution.

Primary content consists of a series of video images (presented in a timeline format) captured by six, 35mm time-lapse cameras positioned by Project Rebirth around the World Trade Center site. They shoot one frame every five minutes—and will continue to do so for ten years. The images enable the viewing of the rebuild as it occurs on any date; in seconds, visitors can see the footage of a single day. There are also interviews with reconstruction overseers, journals by filmmakers and video of major milestones in the redevelopment efforts.

Project Rebirth Web siteThe key challenge for the developers was to create an interface that would incorporate what would ultimately be ten years of film footage, that didn’t inundate visitors and yet communicated the passage of substantial amounts of time. Their solution is an interactive, XML-driven timeline that delivers fluid viewing of time-lapse footage. It provides an appropriate time-based metaphor that also does a nice job of integrating video, audio, imagery and text-based content into a single interface. The time-based experience allows access to any moment in time and provides the ability to navigate the Web site by date and/or event. Our one complaint: The link from the home page, to this main feature, looks far too much like header art. We would have liked to see billing more in line with its importance.

This collaborative effort between Project Rebirth and IconNicholson began in the summer of 2003 and the site launched in September 2004. On average, visitors are staying on the site 19 minutes, which is significant in comparison to Internet-wide stays at sites with similar content. Interestingly, international users comprise 30% of all visitors.

Robert Fisher, creative director

Claudia Chow, art director

See-ming Lee, timeline art director/developer

Larry Burks, information architect

Miles Kafka, CGI programmer/engineer

Tim Murtaugh, HTML developer

Leslie Freeman, producer

Katharine English, Project Rebirth, general manager

Paul Wood, Project Rebirth, technical producer

IconNicholson, site design and development

Web site: www.projectrebirth.org

Web site: www.iconnicholson.com

SML Copyright Notice

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中國深圳地鐵華僑城站A出口

Exit A, OCT Station, Shenzhen Metro, Shenzhen, China

中国深圳地铁华侨城站A出口

Full res 25403 × 2136:

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8300195591/sizes/o/

360-degree panoramic stiched using 27 fullres RAW image shot with the Canon EOS 7D and Canon EF 24-70 f2.8L. Processed in Lightroom, stitched using freeware Hugin—because Photoshop could not handle it.

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“海中島” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130204.7D.21254.P1 by See-ming Lee

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An island was discovered near the water surface yesterday when I was testing with my new toy—the Canon EF 1.4x Extender III which turns my 70-200 f/4 L lens into an effective 98-280 f/5.6L lens.

I don’t really know what it is. From the angle I was shooting from on the 27th floor, it is hard to tell exactly how closed by it is. Is the Hong Kong Government doing some deep sea research? WTF is that? This “island” spans at least 100m in length and is seen very close to shore (10m). It first appeared yesterday but it is no longer present today.

# SML Translate

+ 海: sea, ocean.

+ 中: centre, middle, inside.

+ 島: island.

# SML Workflow

Photographed handheld with the Canon EOS 7D + EF 70-200 f/4L + EF 1.4x Extender III. Noise reduction in Lightroom 4. Processed in Photoshop CS6.

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-4 16:30:03 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 280 mm

+ ISO: 640

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + 1.4x

+ GPS: 22°25'11" N 114°13'24" E (SML Universe HKG)

+ Serial: SML.20130204.7D.21254.P1

“海中島”

/ 寧 Serenity

/ SML.20130204.7D.21254.P1

/ #寧 #Serenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #海 #sea #沙田海 #ShaTinHoi #吐露港 #ToloHarbour #香港 #HongKong #中國 #中国 #China #馬鞍山 #MaOnShan #自然 #nature #山水 #landscape #WTF #攝影 #摄影 #photography

“黑雲掛明月” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130324.7D.36231.P1.L1.C23 by See-ming Lee

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The moon shines brightly amidst the cloudy dark sky from last night.

# SML Translate: 黑雲掛明月

+ 黑: black, dark.

+ 雲: clouds.

+ 掛: hang, hanging (verb).

+ 明: bright, clear.

+ 月: moon.

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-24 00:05:18 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 3086 x 4828

+ Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 280 mm

+ ISO: 3200

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + Canon EF 1.4x Extender III

+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3 Time Remote, Tripod

+ GPS: 22°25'8" N 114°13'27" E

+ Altitude: 59.7 m

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Serial: SML.20130324.7D.36231.P1.L1.C23

+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

“黑雲掛明月” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130324.7D.36231.P1.L1.C23

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #夜 #Night #月 #Moon #天 #空 #sky #雲 #云 #clouds

“日高月同” / 山東省泰山 Mount Tai, Shandong Province 山东省泰山 / 中國旅遊中国旅游 China Tourism / SML.20121011.7D.09564.ChinaTourism.CN.QingDao by See-ming Lee

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Public calligraphy is generally reserved for the VIPs in China. The text usually references the beauty of the landscape, but since they are recorded somewhere, they often also works as landmarks in the wild before the age of GPS.

# SML Translate:

+ 日: sun

+ 高: high up

+ 月: moon

+ 同: together

# SML Opinions:

Broadly speaking this suggests the sun is far up in the sky, but the moon is also very nearby. So the writing was probably written some time during the evening, where you can see the sun and the moon together. I don’t know what the calligrapher’s original intention is, but to me it implies a bit of romance.

# SML Notes:

I shot this photograph before I bought the GPS unit for my 7D, so the GPS coordinates here is approximate.

“空清水靜如龍鳳夜夢金輝滿江紅” / 香港中文大學全景夜之寧 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Panoramic Night Serenity / SML.20130306.7D.26377-SML.20130306.7D.26385-Pano.003.Rectilinear.90x94.P1.L1 by See-ming Lee

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This is a night-time panorama of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK 香港中文大學).

It is stitched together using 7 RAW captures of 20-sec long exposures mounted on a tripod near my bedroom window. This time I braved it and stuck my camera all the way outside the window so I was able to do it at the same position without using two windows.

Floating on the sea on the left you will see the floating light anchor seen earlier in my stream [1].

# SML translate:

空清水靜如龍鳳

夜夢金輝滿江紅

+ 空: air, sky.

+ 清: clear. Describes the sky.

+ 水: water. sea.

+ 靜: quiet. Describes the water.

+ 如: (appears) like.

+ 龍: dragon.

+ 鳳: phoenix.

+ 空清水靜如龍鳳: the sky is clear, the harbour is quiet, the colors make the scene looks like dragon and phoenix (because of the lights of the Tolo Highway).

+ 夜: night.

+ 夢: dream.

+ 金: gold, golden. Describes the color.

+ 輝: shiny. Describes the light.

+ 滿: entire, full.

+ 江: lake. Tolo Harbour.

+ 紅: red. the color of the lake.

I’ve tried to get the 平仄 right this time. Not sure if I did though? :)

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-06 12:41:54 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 4801 x 2290

+ Exposures: 20.0 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 19 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ Panorama FOV: 90 degree horizontal, 94 degree vertical (though cropped further in Lightroom so actual vertical degree unknown)

+ Panoramic Projection: Rectilinear

+ GPS: 22°25'10" N 114°13'25" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Subject: 香港中文大學 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

+ Serial: SML.20130306.7D.26377-SML.20130306.7D.26385-Pano.003.Rectilinear.90x94.P1.L1

+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

# Notes

1. “冬夜萬物寧金輝獨詠春” / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130208.7D.21344: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8455872022/in/set-721576...

“空清水靜如龍鳳夜夢金輝滿江紅” / 香港中文大學全景夜之寧 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Panoramic Night Serenity / SML.20130306.7D.26377-SML.20130306.7D.26385-Pano.003.Rectilinear.90x94.P1.L1

/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #全景 #SMLPano #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #CUHK #夜 #Night

“Serenity time-lapse work still in progress 2 hours later” / SML.20130308.IP3.09690 by See-ming Lee

Two hours later, and it is still going. Let’s see if there is enough footage for now:

10-sec interval = 6 frames per minute.

6 frame per minute x 120 minutes = 720 frames.

If playing at 24fps then I should have approximately 30 seconds worth of video.

The full sunset should have been captured. Now at night time not much is happening and I need the camera to go photography later tonight so I will stop it soon. This is just a first test after all. If this works well trust that I will be doing more of it in the future. :)

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-03-08

+ Camera: Apple iPad 3

+ Workflow: Snapseed

+ Location: SML Universe HKG

+ Serial: SML.20130308.IP3.09690

+ Series: Workflow

“Serenity time-lapse work still in progress 2 hours later” / SML.20130308.IP3.09690

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects #workflow

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #Landscape #夜 #Night IP3 SQ

山河怒雲天 / 香港中文大學日落之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Sunset Serenity / SML.20130529.6D.15289.BW by See-ming Lee

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Daily drama theater outside my window. Cloudscapes tend to be tricky to work with so I did most of my processing in Photoshop CS6.

# SML Transalate: 山河怒雲天

+ 山: mountains.

+ 河: lakes.

+ 怒: angry.

+ 雲: clouds.

+ 天: sky.

+ 山河怒雲天: mountains and waters with a vigorous cloudscape in the sky.

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-29T18:57:26+0800

+ Dimensions: 5212 x 3475

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 170 mm

+ ISO: 250

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG (Vista Paradiso, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China)

+ Workflow: Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130529.6D.15289.BW

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 自然 Nature

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

山河怒雲天 / 香港中文大學日落之寧 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Sunset Serenity / SML.20130529.6D.15289.BW

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #自然 #Nature #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #雲 #Cloud #天 #空 #Sky #山水 #landscape #CUHK #sunset

“日落雲錦水靜山寧” / 香港全景之寧 Hong Kong Panoramic Serenity / SML.20130402.7D.37445-SML.20130402.7D.37452-Pano.Rectilinear.76x50.P1.L1 by See-ming Lee

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GettyImages: gty.im/166771257

As promised, here is the panorama shot at the same time earlier. The clouds are the focus here so it is exposed for it instead of the buildings on the mountain (which is part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong).

Technically speaking it should be possible for me to do an HDR to expose for both, which I will try in the future. The last time I try to do HDR with panorama though it was insanely complicated, as I ended up having 100+ images to stitch then HDR with and I feel like that it was not really worth the trouble after working on them for a while. But if I have a day’s time I will probably try to do it again. And definitely for this series I would because some images are worth the trouble, and the scenery like this most definitely is.

Stitched using eight 7D full-resolution RAW captures.

# SML Translate: 日落雲錦水靜山寧

+ 日: sun.

+ 落: down.

+ 雲: clouds.

+ 錦: brocade (describe thickness of clouds).

+ 水: water (the ocean).

+ 靜: quiet.

+ 山: mountains.

+ 寧: serene (also title of series)

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-04-02T18:12:22+0800

+ Dimensions: 9583 x 3651

+ Exposure: 1/60 - 1/80 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 40 mm

+ ISO: 125

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

+ Accessories: Canon TC-80N3, Manfrotto tripod

+ Panorama FOV: 76 degree horizontal, 50 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Rectilinear

+ GPS: 22°25'9" N 114°13'25" E

+ Location: SML Universe HKG, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130402.7D.37445-SML.20130402.7D.37452-Pano.Rectilinear.76x50.P1.L1

+ Workflow: Hugin 2012, Photoshop CS6, Lightroom 4

+ Series: 寧 Serenity, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

“日落雲錦水靜山寧” / 香港全景之寧 Hong Kong Panoramic Serenity / SML.20130402.7D.37445-SML.20130402.7D.37452-Pano.Rectilinear.76x50.P1.L1

/ #寧 #Serenity #SMLSerenity #全景 #Pano #SMLPano #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #山水 #landscape #雲 #Cloud #Cloudscape #自然 #Nature

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8613908994/

www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8613908994/sizes/o/ (9583 x 3651)

中國山東省青島萬達廣場全景攝影中国山东省青岛万达广场全景摄影 Wanda Plaza, Qingdao, Shandong, China (Pano Photography) / SML.20121012.IPH5.00315 by See-ming Lee

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It was the first time I have been to Qingdao, and I did not realize how busy the streets at night were. The China I had rememebered visiting 20 years ago has evolved a whole lot. Which is more the reason why I feel that it is important for me to record its change through photography for my 10-year long project.

Morgan Stanley Van Kampen Investments / Concept: Folders / Banner Ad 728x90 / Preview / 2005 / SML Advertising by See-ming Lee

SML Pro Blog: Morgan Stanley: Van Kampen Investments: 2005 Concept: Folders

Client = Morgan Stanley / Van Kampen Investments

Project = Banner Ads 2005 Concept

Concept = Folders

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson.com)

Robert Fisher / Sean E. Duffy / See-ming Lee

Copy (provided by Morgan Stanley)

Dig... Deeper... That's our investment philosophy.

Over 400 portfolio managers, research analysts and traders.

Each one commited to leaving no stone unturned.

Van Kampen Investments.

Shine.

See what Van Kampen can do for you.

SML Flickr Tags

MSVK.2005.Folders

SML Flickr Sets

Morgan Stanley Van Kampen Investments / 2005 / SML Projects (Set)

SML Universe

SML Advertising (Set)

SML Collection (Collection)

SML Projects (Collection)

Copyright Notice

Black Watch / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30929.P2.BW by See-ming Lee

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A matter of coincidence. A black woman watches the crowd below from the top deck of the “Black Watch” cruise ship.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch_(ship)

MS Black Watch cruise ship. Photographed at the Rocks with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM.

Black Watch / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30929.P2.BW

“混合媒體死園之形混合媒体死园之形 Mixed Media Deadyard Forms” / SML.20121011.G12.00730 by See-ming Lee

I cannot always explain why I photograph the things which I do. Photography is my canvas. I paint on it through photographing existing forms, but the forms itself may not be a representation of anything. I just like the way the lines intersect in space.

The photograph is of something, so it is not intrinsically abstract, but what I wish to say is. As such it is abstract. Often people comment on the fact that abstract photography does not exist, in reality it does — it is the intention of the photographer which matters.

This was taken on a trip to Jinan, Shandong Province, China with the Canon G12 while I was smoking outside after lunch. It is the wall of a back alley where the kitchen is.

“混合媒體死園之形混合媒体死园之形 Mixed Media Deadyard Forms”

/ SML.20121011.G12.00730

“Happiness is an inside job” by Olek / pano-001-SML.20121218.7D.19796-SML.20121218.7D.19805 by See-ming Lee

圓方 Elements

香港九龍尖沙咀柯士甸道西1號

1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

Project Rebirth: Screen 9 of 11: The Film: Cameras / 2004 / IconNicholson by See-ming Lee

Project Rebirth (www.ProjectRebirth.org)

Chronicling the Rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City

Screens (11 Total)

+ 5. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Documentary

+ 6. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal

+ 7. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail

Awards

+ Web Marketing Association's WebAwards 2005: Best Non-Profit Website

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson / LBi International)

+ Leslie Freeman (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Larry Burks (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Miles Kafka (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Paul Wood (Google)

Design Interact: Web Site of the Week (www.designinteract.com/sow/122004/)

Week of December 20: Project Rebirth Web Site

Project Rebirth is an online chronicle of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. As immediate and compelling as a physical visit, this project gives people the opportunity to observe and share in the progress of the reconstruction.

Newly released at the time the team was considering technical specifications, thisProject Rebirth Web site site uses the FlashMX development environment to full effect. Functioning as a portal to extensive content, the beauty of this Web site lies in its ability to be current and historical. With a visual design that appropriately takes a back seat to the content, it records ideas, images and interviews in their original context while also allowing for their evolution.

Primary content consists of a series of video images (presented in a timeline format) captured by six, 35mm time-lapse cameras positioned by Project Rebirth around the World Trade Center site. They shoot one frame every five minutes—and will continue to do so for ten years. The images enable the viewing of the rebuild as it occurs on any date; in seconds, visitors can see the footage of a single day. There are also interviews with reconstruction overseers, journals by filmmakers and video of major milestones in the redevelopment efforts.

Project Rebirth Web siteThe key challenge for the developers was to create an interface that would incorporate what would ultimately be ten years of film footage, that didn’t inundate visitors and yet communicated the passage of substantial amounts of time. Their solution is an interactive, XML-driven timeline that delivers fluid viewing of time-lapse footage. It provides an appropriate time-based metaphor that also does a nice job of integrating video, audio, imagery and text-based content into a single interface. The time-based experience allows access to any moment in time and provides the ability to navigate the Web site by date and/or event. Our one complaint: The link from the home page, to this main feature, looks far too much like header art. We would have liked to see billing more in line with its importance.

This collaborative effort between Project Rebirth and IconNicholson began in the summer of 2003 and the site launched in September 2004. On average, visitors are staying on the site 19 minutes, which is significant in comparison to Internet-wide stays at sites with similar content. Interestingly, international users comprise 30% of all visitors.

Robert Fisher, creative director

Claudia Chow, art director

See-ming Lee, timeline art director/developer

Larry Burks, information architect

Miles Kafka, CGI programmer/engineer

Tim Murtaugh, HTML developer

Leslie Freeman, producer

Katharine English, Project Rebirth, general manager

Paul Wood, Project Rebirth, technical producer

IconNicholson, site design and development

Web site: www.projectrebirth.org

Web site: www.iconnicholson.com

SML Copyright Notice

Project Rebirth: Screen 1 of 11: Home / 2004 / IconNicholson by See-ming Lee

Project Rebirth (www.ProjectRebirth.org)

Chronicling the Rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City

Screens (11 Total)

+ 5. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Documentary

+ 6. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal

+ 7. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail

Awards

+ Web Marketing Association's WebAwards 2005: Best Non-Profit Website

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson / LBi International)

+ Leslie Freeman (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Larry Burks (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Miles Kafka (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Paul Wood (Google)

“Copper vase as light fixture” #Crazyisgood / 中國飲食文化中国饮食文化 Chinese Food Culture / SML.20130121.IP3.SQ by See-ming Lee

Design Interact: Web Site of the Week (www.designinteract.com/sow/122004/)

Week of December 20: Project Rebirth Web Site

Project Rebirth is an online chronicle of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. As immediate and compelling as a physical visit, this project gives people the opportunity to observe and share in the progress of the reconstruction.

Newly released at the time the team was considering technical specifications, thisProject Rebirth Web site site uses the FlashMX development environment to full effect. Functioning as a portal to extensive content, the beauty of this Web site lies in its ability to be current and historical. With a visual design that appropriately takes a back seat to the content, it records ideas, images and interviews in their original context while also allowing for their evolution.

Primary content consists of a series of video images (presented in a timeline format) captured by six, 35mm time-lapse cameras positioned by Project Rebirth around the World Trade Center site. They shoot one frame every five minutes—and will continue to do so for ten years. The images enable the viewing of the rebuild as it occurs on any date; in seconds, visitors can see the footage of a single day. There are also interviews with reconstruction overseers, journals by filmmakers and video of major milestones in the redevelopment efforts.

Project Rebirth Web siteThe key challenge for the developers was to create an interface that would incorporate what would ultimately be ten years of film footage, that didn’t inundate visitors and yet communicated the passage of substantial amounts of time. Their solution is an interactive, XML-driven timeline that delivers fluid viewing of time-lapse footage. It provides an appropriate time-based metaphor that also does a nice job of integrating video, audio, imagery and text-based content into a single interface. The time-based experience allows access to any moment in time and provides the ability to navigate the Web site by date and/or event. Our one complaint: The link from the home page, to this main feature, looks far too much like header art. We would have liked to see billing more in line with its importance.

This collaborative effort between Project Rebirth and IconNicholson began in the summer of 2003 and the site launched in September 2004. On average, visitors are staying on the site 19 minutes, which is significant in comparison to Internet-wide stays at sites with similar content. Interestingly, international users comprise 30% of all visitors.

Robert Fisher, creative director

Claudia Chow, art director

See-ming Lee, timeline art director/developer

Larry Burks, information architect

Miles Kafka, CGI programmer/engineer

Tim Murtaugh, HTML developer

Leslie Freeman, producer

Katharine English, Project Rebirth, general manager

Paul Wood, Project Rebirth, technical producer

IconNicholson, site design and development

Web site: www.projectrebirth.org

Web site: www.iconnicholson.com

SML Copyright Notice

“Copper vase as light fixture” #Crazyisgood

/ 中國飲食文化中国饮食文化 Chinese Food Culture

/ SML.20130121.IP3.SQ

Cloud forms division / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30983.P2.BW by See-ming Lee

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Clouds divided by lines in space.

Sydney Business School. Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM near Circular Quay Station, Sydney, Australia.

Cloud forms division / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140315.6D.30983.P2.BW

Boat + Rocks at North Head / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140317.7D.51837.P1.BW by See-ming Lee

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The ferry ride to Manly offers scenic views along the way. Unlike the harbours in many cities where commercial transports dominate, the Sydney Harbour is well used by its occupants for leisure purposes, and there are sail boats everywhere.

Pictured is a fragile sail boat near some beautiful rocks at the tip of an island. Backtracking on the GPS shows that this tip is called the North Head and is part of the Sydney Harbour National Park.

Photographed on the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly, with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM.

Boat + Rocks at North Head / Sydney, Australia / SML.20140317.7D.51837.P1.BW

花旗銀行大廈 Citibank Tower / 香港商業建築之形 Hong Kong Commercial Architecture Forms / SML.20130524.7D.42089.BW by See-ming Lee

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Citibank Plaza (花旗銀行大廈) is a modern glass and steel office complex in Hong Kong that comprises Citibank Tower, ICBC Tower, a 3 level basement garage capable of accommodating 558 vehicles, as well as a retail podium. With a gross floor area of almost 1,600,000 sq ft (150,000 m2)., Citibank Plaza is one of the biggest office complexes in Hong Kong, capable of serving a working population of over 10,000. At 205 metres tall, Citibank Tower reaches up to the 50th floor. The highest floor on ICBC Tower is the 40th. Completed in 1992, it was one of the first office buildings in Hong Kong to incorporate intelligent building and environmentally friendly features.

# References

+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citibank_Plaza

+ zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/花旗銀行大廈

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:40:16+0800

+ Dimensions: 3375 x 5063

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/9.0

+ Focal Length: 17 mm

+ ISO: 160

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'47" N 114°9'39" E

+ Location: 香港金鐘花園道3號花旗銀行大廈 Citibank Tower, 3 Garden Road, Admiralty, Hong Kong

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130524.7D.42089.BW

+ Series: 形 Forms, 建築 Architecture

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

花旗銀行大廈 Citibank Tower / 香港商業建築之形 Hong Kong Commercial Architecture Forms / SML.20130524.7D.42089.BW

/ #建築 #建筑 #Architecture #形 #Forms #SMLForms #黑白 #BW #SMLBW #CreativeCommons #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects

/ #中國 #中国 #China #香港 #HongKong #攝影 #摄影 #photography #城市 #Urban #中環 #Central #花旗銀行 #Citibank #lines

Project Rebirth: Screen 7 of 11: Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail / 2004 / IconNicholson by See-ming Lee

Project Rebirth (www.ProjectRebirth.org)

Chronicling the Rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City

Screens (11 Total)

+ 5. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Documentary

+ 6. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal

+ 7. Timeline: Project Journal: 2003-11-23: Event: Opening of the PATH Train: Journal Detail

Awards

+ Web Marketing Association's WebAwards 2005: Best Non-Profit Website

IconNicholson Team (IconNicholson / LBi International)

+ Leslie Freeman (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Larry Burks (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Miles Kafka (Google / LinkedIn)

+ Paul Wood (Google)