*Tai Hang Café*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
Tai Hang is one of the most endearing areas in Hong Kong island, at the same time old and gentrifying. Car repair shops sit next to quaint (or trendy) coffee places. This is (obviously) the latter. I love the lattice on the coffee shop doors.
*Car seat repairman*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
I was so happy with this shot. See, I noticed this guy the first week I was in Hong Kong back in 2016, and I tried to take a shot of him multiple times over the years, but never managed to get it right: the lighting was off, he wasn’t looking in the right direction, he was looking at me, etc. Getting this shot on my last week in Hong Kong was something special.
*A Ladder*
Canon EOS300 + Rollei RPX25
This is one of the last rolls I shot in Hong-Kong. For about a year now, I have shot mostly very slow films for street, forcing me into shallow depths of field and different subjects. Rogue ladders are so Hong-Kong, you’ll like see some more.
*Star Ferry in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fujifilm X-TRA 400
This image was one of the last of the roll, shot on the very last day before I packed all my cameras for the move. By the time I reached TST, the weather had turned and it was cloudy and hazy. But that’s Hong Kong too, and nothing is more iconic than the Star Ferry, so of course I had to bottle it.
*Cyclist in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400
(As I leave Hong Kong this week I wanted to share an experiment, inspired by the wonderful series by Chris Relander entitled Bottled. These are film double exposures of scenes of Hong Kong that will always for me evoke the city I loved and am now leaving. This is my first ever attempt at the technique, and it needs perfecting, but I hope you will see them as the work in progress that it is).
I remember my first few weeks in Hong Kong. I was convalescing from a major operation, and tried to walk around everyday as much as I could to get better faster. The Shelter St. tram stop was our local one, and that day I didn’t have a camera with me. I saw this cyclist in front of a tram on the tram line and wished I’d had a zoom lens to shoot it with. On my last week, I saw nearly the same scene at the nearby Victoria Park tram stop, and captured it in a bottle. A circle complete…
*Graham St. in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400
(As I leave Hong Kong this week I wanted to share an experiment, inspired by the wonderful series by Chris Relander entitled Bottled. These are film double exposures of scenes of Hong Kong that will always for me evoke the city I loved and am now leaving. This is my first ever attempt at the technique, and it needs perfecting, but I hope you will see them as the work in progress that it is).
Graham St. in central has this mural that I found striking when I first arrived, after having seen it in one of Kai and Lok’s videos. But every time I went there, other people were taking photos as well and I came to see it as a little trite. More recently, as the mural degraded, less people were interested in taking photos and I became more so. So it made sense to bottle it as well as a piece of the Hong Kong that was.
*Tram in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fuji Superia X-TRA 400
(As I leave Hong Kong this week I wanted to share an experiment, inspired by the wonderful series by Chris Relander entitled Bottled. These are film double exposures of scenes of Hong Kong that will always for me evoke the city I loved and am now leaving. This is my first ever attempt at the technique, and it needs perfecting, but I hope you will see them as the work in progress that it is).
The Hong Kong trams are special. Many of them are still old, wooden and rickety and they’re my favorites. A tram in Hong Kong to me is not just a way of getting somewhere, it’s an experience in and of itself. One I was keen to bottle and keep in my souvenir cabinet.
*Lantern in a bottle*
Canon EOS300 + Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400
(As I leave Hong Kong this week I wanted to share an experiment, inspired by the wonderful series by Chris Relander entitled Bottled. These are film double exposures of scenes of Hong Kong that will always for me evoke the city I loved and am now leaving. This is my first ever attempt at the technique, and it needs perfecting, but I hope you will see them as the work in progress that it is).
Tin Hau Temple (at least the temple of that name in Tin Hau, there are many temples dedicated to Tin Hau around Hong Kong) is a place I photographed many times. It used to be on my way home as we lived in the street just above it. Felt like these lanterns needed to be bottled for a souvenir to take with me.
*The clock, the door and the ladder*
Cyanotype on Bockingford HP 300gsm
One of the things I love in the Hong Kong backalleys is a very particular jumble of odd items that I’ve only seen here. This was shot in Tai Hang and is very representative of those backalleys. You might think that this could be anywhere, but trust me, only in Hong Kong.
*Boxed-In Blues*
Cyanotype on Bockingford HP 300gsm
This was my first attempt at a large format street photo on cyanotype (this is an A2 size image). And it got me so excited that I’ve been revisiting my Hong Kong photos for some soon to be delivered prints. I loved the original image, I think I love the cyanotype print even more.
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