mother and son

it suddenly turned cold in the last days of 2007. However, the slightly chilly weather has only made the scenes look warmer...

... at a tram stop, des voeux road west, shek tong tsui.

on one of its last days...

"You are so beautiful to me... " But no matter how beautiful we might think it is, nobody can change its fate; this part of the harbour will be gone forever when the 'Central Reclamation' is completed. All I could do was to take a few shots on one of its last days...

schoolboy going home

it was a dark cool lonely evening. Despite being in a hurry to attend a meeting in Tokwawan, I still tried to see what I could get on the way... I was drawn to the texture and peeling paints of an old factory building wall, brightened up by some strong advertising spot lights...

... but I was only saddened in the end, by the scene of a schoolboy walking home all alone and disapppearing in the darkness...

shadows of father & son...

it was a relaxing sunday afternoon and I took the chance to prowl the streets around Pokfulam... the windows pattern, newly painted walls (Lee Sing Primary School), lightened by the beautiful afternoon sunlight caught my eyes...

... but I didn't expect that my heart would be so touched in the end, by the shadows of this father and his son; didn't know why, I felt that my father was still by my side, though I could not hold his hand anymore...

mood of the night

A road sign, a tree, a bus stop... a local barber or just a street corner... No matter how ordinary or familiar they might seem in the daytime, the night is somehow like a magician turning them into an allure... or is it just me?

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shooting for pleasure...

A friend found two commentaries on my photos:
"All he did was walk around photographing things in his life with no concern for being a 'photographer'... " How accurate! I'm doing all these for pleasure!
"(He is) looking to observe existence, with some wit, and a light touch... " I wish I had the wit... but this explains perfectly well why I have never been interested in planned, arranged or manipulated photographs.
A few recent snapshots... just trying to enjoy myself in observing the existence of my everyday life, with a light touch, and hopefully with some wit...

on the morning bus

bright steps

"envy..."

"if life is a game..."

an onlooker... expecting the unexpected?


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victoria harbour & the star ferry

I can't remember a single day that I haven't had at least a glimpse of the harbour since I was a school boy; and I don't recall a single time that I've lost a sense of wonder when I went aboard the Star Ferry... They're another subjects that I have never stopped photographing.

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enjoying the ISO 1600 of the F30...

Notwithstanding that the image quality of the F30 ISO 1600 isn't comparable to that of a good dSLR, the unique way the F30 is rendering its high ISO images is often adding a special flavour to a night picture. Such special effect (painting like, water coloury or whatever one may describe it) helps conveying the mood of a night scene so well that I have had little reluctance to bump to ISO 1600 in capturing real low light street scenes such as the followings. I must say that the little F30 seldom lets me down.:-)

"But if anyone from Fujifilm is listening, please, please don't give up on the pursuit of usable high ISO image quality in compact cameras - you were our last hope... " Simon Joinson

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the tram road

Johnston Road, more commonly known as the "Tram Road" - the Tramway has been running through it for more than one century since the opening of tram service in 1904. It's such an old road; it must be one of earliest road of the 'Colony'. Yet, it's full of life as ever, and like it or not, it's changing face at an amazing pace. It's such a familiar place to me; I'm in fact passing by it everyday to my office. Yet, the scenes along it have never stopped to intrigue me...
Like 'Two IFC' the pics of which I posted last time, this is another subject that I simply can't stop photographing since taking pics became a hobby/passion...

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a building i fall for

... when I scanned through the photos I took, I noticed that I have kept photographing a building - Two IFC. In fact I have never stopped shooting it since I took up photography in 2005. And, despite having photographed it so many times, I'm still having that urge to get more shots of it almost every time and everywhere I see it...

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