^Largo do Senado (Senado Square), the unmistakable landmark of Macau, has been the town's urban centre for centuries. The square is surrounded by neo-classical buildings in pastel colour, giving the place a consistent and harmonious Mediterranean character
We got a glimpse of Macau yesterday. The town is worthy of introducing to our readers, through words and most importantly some more photos by, this time, a GX100.
Macau to Hong Kong is like what Hawaii to US or the less populated cities to UK where people go there on vacation. It is located some 45 minutes ride on a catamaran from Hong Kong and has been a quieter small town until recent years when the gambling industry there is picking up and overtkaing the scale of Las Vegas
^A woman walking up the stairs to the second floor of the Edificio do Leal Senado (Leal Senado building) smacked of a very Portuguese taste
Fishermen from the China costal town Fujian and Guangdong were the first known settlers in Macau, when it was known as Ou Mun in English/ Portuguese (literally Trading Gate), because of its location at the estuary of the Pearl River running from Guangzhou (aka Canton)
^Macau consists of several small islands connected by bridges
In the early 1550s the Portuguese reached and took Ou Mum, which the locals then also called A Ma Gao (place of A Ma) in honour ofthe Goddess of Seafarers, whose temple stood at the entrance to the sheltered Inner Harbour. The Portuguese adopted the name, which gradually changed into the name Macau, for which rumour has it that the Cantonese original came from the local vuglar expression comparable to "What the fxxx" in English.
Comments
How are you. My name is nxlutz and owner of several pictuires you post on the top right of this blog under GX shots. You have not mentioned anywhere that these are somebody else's shots and let people assume they are yours. You simply took them from my flickr account. I noticed that your images posted in the body of your blog have your watermarks and copyrights plastered all them. I wish you would show the same respect to other photographers in the same way you protect yours. Would you please remove my images and email me for permission should you wish to use them. I will be posting a notice in flickr about this if I do not hear from you about this.
nxlutz (http://www.flickr.com/photos/23178229@N07/) for those who want to see my images
I think that a solution to this might be for you to add a line somewhere near where these photos appear giving credit to flickr owners of the photos. Maybe a line like "All copyrights of images shown belong to respective photographers."
No need to feel threatened.
Cheers,
nxlutz
Thank you for your understanding and reminder. The credit line has been added.
With regards,
Nevin
Much appreciated. Just saw it.
Cheers,
nxlutz