When I went to Hong Kong, I wasn't sure what to expect from a photographic aspect. Obviously there are loads to see in cities, so there wasn't going to be a lack of things, but I just not sure. I have been there before, indeed lived there briefly yonks ago, but I wasn't entirely sure after a 13 year absence. I had a very good time whilst I was there either way. I pretty much wandered around for 4 days with two cameras slung around my neck and just kind of had a nose around.
I only really have one other photo from a city in this kind of way and that was from New York, where I basically took one picture of buildings at funny angles. Here I was trying to do the same kind of thing.
Hong Kong island is a bit hilly (really hilly in fact), and you can kind of get a sense of the gradient by the distance of the people in the left hand side of this picture, but what I was more interested in is the bamboo on the right. I love the fact that you will always see bamboo on construction.
Cookie cutter concrete jungle.
Right, this is the observation platform on Victoria Peak. The picture's a little grainy, and even though it is pretty empty as a photo, but I was pretty fortunate to get the plane in it.
All the land in the bottom is reclaimed land.
Hong Kong will be great when they're finished building it.
The alleys are pretty cool to use a fish eye lens on. Just to get the street level and the tops of buildings in one shot. You get a much better idea of the scale of things.
So I've probably ripped off loads of other photos here, but whatever.
Whoever lives here is really bloody lucky. The views are great. Not that you can tell from the picture, but I was on the Peak, looking down, and you get a great view of Kowloon.
This view in fact...
