*Drying Fish*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Ferrania P30
Ferrania P30 is very contrasty, especially on a bright and sunny day, but it has this old timey quality that makes it perfect for shots of the traditional Hong Kong. These frames of drying fish, just laid out in the street by the harbor in Cheung Chau are part of the charm of that island, and I really like how this image taken in 2021 could have been taken 50 years ago or more.
*Latticed*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Ferrania P30
Ever since I started photography seriously I have been fascinated with doors: old doors, unusual doors, ornate doors… I don’t quite know why, the idea of entering or exiting probably speaks to me on an unconscious level. A few months ago I spent an afternoon in Cheung Chau and discovered plenty of doors worth looking into.
*Cardboard Stack*
Rollefliex SL35 + Lomography Fantome 8
I know this image is nothing to write home about, but it’s soooooo Hong Kong. I’ve not seen this kind of cardboard collection anywhere except here, so see it as a documentary photography (that’s my excuse for it being bland!)
*Pawn Shop*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Lomography Fantome 8
One of my favourite walls and sign in Hong Kong, the old pawn shop sign. The sign is designed to look like an upside down bat holding a coin. That is because, apparently, in cantonese where there are a lot of near homonyms (characters pronounced nearly the same with a slight tone variation), ‘upside down bat’ sounds virtually identical to ‘good fortune has arrived’!
*Snail Mail*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Lomography Fantome 8
One of the things I love about Fantome 8 is that even mild contrasts between sun patches and shadow result in very dynamic images. In this picture I used that to my advantage by shooting my favourite Hong Kong feature: the iron store curtains!
*Street Sign*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Lomography Fantome 8
Hong Kong is filled with visual signage. In fact, you could say it’s overfilled with it, a proper assault on the senses. So it’s quite refreshing to see handwritten signs once in a while. No idea what this says though…
*One More Tram*
Rolleiflex SL35 + Lomography Fantome 8
I love trams in Hong Kong, but I often feel I’ve done them to death… Shooting with Fantome 8, I could only shoot high contrast and slow moving (or not moving) trams, and this one came out really nice. I love how it’s decorated.
*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.
*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.
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