*Bodhisattva Bokeh*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I love the subtle bokeh of the GW690iii, but it’s not always easy to find the right conditions. It took me a long while to find a statue at the 10000 Buddhas Monastery that was not leaning against a corrugated iron fence, that was in the shadows enough that I could open up the lens and that looked good. But I did (this was the last shot in the roll!)
*Buddhist Trio*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I was quite taken by these three statues and the sign above their heads. I kind of wich I hadn’t cut down the base of the statues, but my angle of view wasn’t wide enough. Still, there’s a serenity here that I find quite striking.
*Bearded Bodhisattva*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
So all of the statues that line the path up to the 10000 Buddhas temple are painted gold, but some of them are fresher than others. I think the ones I liked the most were the older ones where the pain was seriously flaked already. They had a more statuesque feel to them, especially in Black & White.
*Sweeping the Nun’s Shadows*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
I’m not actually sure that these female figures represent Nuns, or if they are female Bodhisattva, but I liked the alignment of statues casting shadows, and the leaning broom breaks that alignment nicely.
*Flaky Abbott*
Fuji GW690iii + Rollei RPX400
Despite our inability to travel over the christmas holiday (same as everybody else) we tried to make the most of it and check out HK spots that we’d missed so far. Such was the 10000 Buddhas temple in Sha Tin. A long strip of concrete path lined with lifesize buddhist statues leads to the temple itself up the hill. Fascinating place and great opportunity to shoot portraits of monks, abbots and stranger things.
*Nature takes back*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Portra 400
I never really had the opportunity to do much urbex, and I don’t suppose it’s qualified as urbex when it’s a few houses from an abandoned village on a jungle island, but I quite enjoyed our short trip to Yim Tin Tsai and while the village was both more recent and smaller than what I expected, I still found it fascinating.
*Mobile Softee*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Portra 160
Yes, we still have ice cream vans in Hong Kong. There’s not a lot of choice, mind you, it’s Italian style vanilla ice cream or… Italian style vanilla ice cream. But my daughter loves it, and she’s not the only one in any age group, it seems.
*A man and a scooter*
Fuji GW690iii + JCH400
One of the real challenges of shooting street is this ability to take shots « en passant » as we would say in French, and that’s made even harder when you’re fully manual and your camera is as large as a large brick. So even though there’s nothing spectacular about this shot, just the fact that it’s in focus and framed properly makes me happy!
*HK Verticals*
Fuji GW690iii + JCH400
HK is a vertical city, but that’s not something I find easy to capture on camera. It’s harder to frame and often the frame cuts don’t convey the sense that these scrapers go one forever. That’s one reason I really like this shot, which I think does convey the verticality, probably in large part because of the high vantage point.
*Graffiti Jumble*
Fuji GW690iii + JCH400
The backalleys of Central are a treasure trove for graffiti lovers, which is not what you’d necesseraly expect of this otherwise affluent neighbourhood. I regularly roam the area, and quite often find that black and white is just as interesting as colour despite the polychromatism of the original.
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