*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.
*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.
*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…
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