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March 2, 2014

Walking Around Hong Kong

I’m spending the day in Hong Kong, on my way home from nearly two weeks in India, travelling around Delhi and Rajasthan. The weather isn’t all that great, misty, humid and of course, polluted. But, I decided to take my camera out and go for a little walk around town. Hong Kong is an extremely […]

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I’m spending the day in Hong Kong, on my way home from nearly two weeks in India, travelling around Delhi and Rajasthan.

The weather isn’t all that great, misty, humid and of course, polluted. But, I decided to take my camera out and go for a little walk around town.

Hong Kong is an extremely photogenic city, but most of the memorable photos I created when I lived here where either created at night, or on the rare days (often after typhoons), when the air is really clean and you can see for miles.

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What I didn’t ever do was create a lot of images at street level, partly because locals notice and are usually not too happy about having big dSLR cameras pointed at them. Fair enough, neither am I, to be honest.

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But, at the risk of sounding like an advertisement, people react differently when I walk about with the Fuji x100s (and this would be true with other smaller cameras as well. My feeling is because they can see more of my face, my intentions and attitude are easier to read and perhaps less threatening.

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Or perhaps it’s just because, when you live somewhere for a while, you start move through the environment far too quickly, trying to get from A to B, without stopping to take in the details all around you?

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Responses
Paul Fox (Foxlore) 11 years ago

Wish I had know you were coming through, would have loved to meet up for tea. Though I am sure you had little free time on your hands. Enjoying living vicariously through your lens. 🙂

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