yuen long – Hong Kong Lucida

Yuen Long Wet Market

Posted on November 27, 2014November 24, 2014 by eddietay in Colour

We were at a wet market in Yuen Long.

I walked past this shed and felt I really had to take a shot.

If you’re in construction, you have to be a bit of a Spiderman.

They’re very agile.

Chicken rice stall.

We walked through a wet market.

Straw hats for sale.

Very fried and oily calamari (or were they oysters)?

I thought the wall was rather beautiful.

I was having a William Eggleston moment here.

The second floor of a village house.

Dried seafood.

More dried seafood.

Some more dried seafood.

Dried seafood, anyone?

Last chance to buy dried seafood!

Scaffoldings offer lots of compositional possibilities.

I walked around to obtain different angles.

I have so many others but I’ll stop here.

The underside of awnings too, can be beautiful.

Check out the lines, colours and shadows.

Sometimes the most common of things can offer up beauty.

The blue and yellow above go very well together.

The arm offers a quirky variation to the scene.

Bamboo scaffolding.

Some more scaffolding.

Parking lot signage.

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All photographs here were taken with the now classic Canon G11.

Yuen Long: Hello Kitty Organic Farm and Harbin Ice Festival

Posted on November 25, 2014November 24, 2014 by eddietay in Colour

So, my family did the excursion package thing again and we went to the Hello Kitty Organic Farm and Harbin Ice Festival.

First stop – Hello Kitty Go Green Organic Farm.

Check out the landscape here – I’m beginning to think it’s a myth that Hong Kong does not have enough land.

This is usually cited as an explanation for high property prices.

I’m beginning to think: if this is indeed a myth, then who benefits from this?

There’re activities for kids here – they get a map and they’re supposed to get stamps at various stations.

There’re handmade toys for sale.

Plants for sale.

Turn left for Hello Kitty.

Turn right for Hello Kitty.

Walk ahead for Hello Kitty.

Run for Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty refreshment corner.

It’s actually a very beautiful and intriguing place if you’re into (street) photography.

Shady scarecrow.

You could rent a plot of land here for a few months to tend to your crops.

It’s all very properly laid out, with your name written down so you won’t end up tending to someone else’s plot.

Feed the goat!

Ditto what I said earlier about land in Hong Kong.

Look at my clever composition.

Tiny windmill, tiny scarecrow.

Ah – the pastoral life…

Chrysanthemum tea for sale.

Washing hands after feeding the goats.

My very suave shadow.

Our cheerful excursion guide.

Boredom in the tour coach.

Yes finally, we arrived at the Harbin Ice Festival.

The colours and lines look well-balanced to me.

Nice looking cable tower…

We were in the exhibition hall at Harbin Ice Festival.

It’s minus 10 degrees Celsius in here.

Psychedelic penguin.

Everything here is carved out of ice.

I paid close attention to the colours.

I’m having a Martin Parr moment.

Bye bye and thanks for stopping by!

All pictures were taken with Canon G11, which you could now call a classic camera.

Somewhere in Yuen Long

Posted on September 17, 2014September 12, 2014 by eddietay in Monochrome

Sometimes I don’t know where I am.

This place is accessible via a walking or biking trail.

And you get to see a sinking village house.

My wife organizes these day trips for the family and I simply tag along… I’m fortunate that way.

I’ll go anywhere as long as there’re things to see.

I know for sure this is somewhere in Yuen Long.

And the village is accessible only via a boat.

It’s another way of life.

It’s a “can do” DIY attitude I need to learn.

He saw my camera but basically ignored me and went on with his work.

I’m trying to improve my Chinese.

Assuming I got that right, it says “the only human-operated bumboat in the whole of Hong Kong, from 6am till 11pm”.

My set up for the day was a Contax TVS II loaded with Ilford XP2 400.

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