Faces of Hong Kong

I love Hong Kong—it’s one of my favorite cities in the world. And I’m very happy to say that I’ll be there again in September! In fact if you live there, let me know and we’ll plan a get-together. Kenneth if you’re reading this… I hope you’ll be in town; we’ll plan something.

This photo is one I’ve shown many times in seminars, but I don’t think it’s been on this blog before. I absolutely love the shot, his expression, his mouth, and especially his eyes. The look is bordering on sad, but I think in reality it’s more exhaustion, just a tired man at the end of a long day working the market.

I’ve always shown this in color, but decided to take it into Silver Efex Pro 2 to play with it. Now I love that shot too, and can’t decide which I prefer. Common problem. Which do you like better?

Hong Kong Market @ March 2010 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 70-200mm ƒ/4L IS @ ISO 1250, ƒ/4, 1/200

And here’s the alternate…

Hong Kong Market @ March 2010 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 70-200mm ƒ/4L IS @ ISO 1250, ƒ/4, 1/200

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The Face of the Hong Kong Sevens

I think this little girl pretty well sums it up! [Hong Kong Sevens]

I’ve been doing a fair amount of shooting on this trip and have barely been online, hence no blog posts. I’ll get photos up from Singapore and Hong Kong soon after my return home!

The Travel Junkie Travels Again

It’s almost shameful… it feels like it’s been ages since I’ve traveled at all, much less gotten a new stamp in my passport! Fortunately that dry run is about to end, and I can finally post something on the Travel Junkie blog that’s actually about travel! (And maybe even update those “feet” photos to the right.) Go figure…

As any regular readers know, I’m about to leave for a trip to Singapore, then Hong Kong. The Singapore trip has filled up amazingly well—other than the conference I’m speaking at, I’m leading two photowalks (one with over 40 people attending!), doing some Aperture 3 training, possibly speaking at a major corporation on small-flash lighting techniques, and shooting a group portrait of the entire conference attendees on the last day.

Hong Kong is a bit quieter though… one small photowalk in the works, plus a TWiP listener was kind enough to arrange a gathering of like-minded professionals for a casual meet-and-greet. Other than that I suppose I’ll have a suit made and stuff myself on the local street food!

The Things I’ll Eat…

In honor of this upcoming trip, I wanted to share a couple of old photos. The second you’ve seen before; it’s from the Beijing Olympics when I ate something… odd… at the Donghuamen market. The first is a photo my father scanned and sent me from an old photo album, dated 1985. I was 11 years old in this photo, taken in Gijon, Spain. Some things never change.

Pretending to eat a live crab (I hope I was pretending!) on July 19, 1985 in Gijon, Spain. I was 11 years old.Eating (actually eating this time) fried scorpion at the Donghuamen market in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics

Singapore and Hong Kong

Here’s a shot from my last trip to Singapore. It was taken from my hotel room as a storm rolled in just before sunrise.

Early morning lightning Storm, view from Pan Pacific Hotel

And a couple from previous trips to Hong Kong.

A hotel view

Ahhh, you see, now THIS is why I travel!More will follow!

View from Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong

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