*Stairs in the Wild*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Fujicolor C200
A lot of the hiking paths on Hong Kong Island have stairs here and there (indeed some are nothing but stairs) and they usually jar with the wild surroundings, but the gentle curve of this particular set of stairs seemed appropriately wild itself…
*Tram within Tram*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Fuji C200
I’ve always loved frame within frame shots, but they’re not easy to pull off. I’m retrospectively surprised I never tried this shot before, when the trams are lined up one after the other. I wish there’d been people in the second tram, but even without them there something about this shot that works, I think.
*Invertigo*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Portra 160
I remember that when I first started photography I use to love these dramatic bottom views of skyscrapers. Then I stopped doing them for some reason but a few months ago on a stroll around Central I looked up and realised all the reflections on this particular one made the view interesting despite the simple composition.
*Glorious Fast Food*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Kodak T-Max 400
There’s lots of street art in Central if you know where to look. I loved how the light was hitting this little street food stall’s painted wall.
*Afternoon Light*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Kodak T-Max 400
There’s a wall alongside this stairwell in the lower reaches of Sheung Wan that looks amazing in early after light. I’ve tried to take the shot many times but every time I go there there are cars parked in front and the effect of the long shadows of the vents on the white wall is ruined. I happened to walk past later in the afternoon one day and was simply enraptured by the light itself on the wall. It’s one of those quiet shots that doesn’t say much except that it’s quiet and all’s well for a moment…
*Sweeping Tools*
iPhone SE
I’ve started to walk up Braemer Hill every morning to get my heart rate going. More often than lot lately I’ve done this in the rain or drizzle. Last week as I was walking back down to a well deserved shower, I spotted this little nook in between two rusty sewer conduits where the people who clean the leaves in the streets keep their tools. I quite liked the visual appeal of these rusty colours in the damp post-rain atmosphere.
*Reduce Speed Now*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Kodak T-Max 400
One of the fun aspects of street photography is to hunt for visual or cognitive clashes. This sign in the middle of a derelict pedestrian district was such a clash.
*Advert Wall*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Kodak T-Max 400
In the last few months I’ve taken to exploring the alleyways of Hong Kong, those narrow pedestrian passages between two high buildings where much more life happens than what one would imagine at first (and I don’t just mean cockroaches, although there are certainly a lot of those…) This set of metal doors covered with tiny ads struck me as being so Hong Kong…
*A Quiet Spot*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Kodak T-Max 400
The upper reaches of Sheung Wan, in between Hollywood Road and Caine Road are narrow, steep and riddled with stairs. As I was walking around there a few weeks ago, with a great light ahead of me, I spotted this woman reading her phone on a bench in the middle of the stairs. It felt so quiet…
*Shadow Fighter*
Rolleiflex SL35 + T-Max400
I already took a colour photo of this great piece of street art found in one of the Mid-Level’s backalleys, but the last time I walked past it there were amazing shadows cast by the trees above, which (I feel) gives the same piece of art a radically different look.
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