Cloud dance

 

Coming up next week is the exhibition of our photos in the Exhibition Gallery in our very own Cultural Centre, TST.

 

 

A few of my pictures will be exhibited :)  I am a virgin in this and am very excited about it!  Well, may be I should try letting more people know about this exhibition first… but, I will survive if I didn’t!

 

The “Cloud dances” was one of the 3 sets which I wanted to submit to the exhibition, I gave it up in the end thinking the other set is better - of course you will let me know which set do you like better.  I love the idea though, the changing shapes of clouds, so mesmerising.  These pictures were taking during my wander-abouts in Hong Kong, the sky was so blue, the clouds so white, and the dance so elegant.

 

 

See you sometime in the exhibition hall next weekend!

Heart of Hong Kong

Date: 21 August 2011

Venue: Sai Kung, Hong Kong

 

The weather was amazingly beautiful: super blue sky with patches of clouds dancing around.  Ban-sir nearly killed me when I arrived at the pier, I was about 10 minutes late, but luckily I wasn’t the last one to join this beautiful tour!  3 other students were also late… it was quite comforting :p

 

 

It was a truly wonderful experience, to witness the growth of the earth, with the traces left visible to the naked eyes.  There is nothing anyone can do but to sigh and praise the wonder of Nature.  Hong Kong is one of the best places to admire old rocks - millions of years of work.  It wasn’t a very easy journey, with many people trying to get the best view (to shoot pictures) of those rocks on a BOAT!  Chan-sir had to remind people to keep the balance of the boat :)  Sometimes it wasn’t so easy but it was always fun

 

 

 

Look at the sea!  The serenity of it and how small we humans are!  How can we ever fight with the nature?  How would we stand a chance?  Compare to the vast of the universe, we merely are dusts.

 

 

 

Fishing has never been a hobby of mine, I suppose I will never understand those people!

 

 

 

Standing on the deck, my seasickness almost drown me!  Poor Chan-sir was really seasick!  You can see many our my classmates shooting at the rocks and the imbalance of the boat! :)  Apart from our boat, there are little boats like that sailing next to us, just in case anyone wants to land.  They charge you a small fee though - not sure how much, we didn’t really use their service.

 

 

 

You can see “The Heart of Hong Kong” in the picture on the right.  It was a natural mountain with the shape of a heart :)  Very romantic place, isn’t it?  We stayed there for a while to take pictures.  It was like another world - to land finally, my poor head!

 

 

 

The picture on your left is our group of people, haha, every one was very busy engaging in their own business!  On the right was a team of mountaineers, they were well equipped and looked like they were really experienced!

 

   

 

Reflections.  Anna & Ricky.  Dr Wong.  Chan-sir. :)

 

 

Since we were all taking pictures on the boat, all our pictures are more or less the same - depends on where you actually shot at of course.  After we landed, our techniques, equipment, i.e. the model of cameras and lenses, from all these things you can tell good photographers from the bad.  Of course most of us are only amateurs, but some of us do take very nice pictures.  My pictures are not as impressive as I thought but they are not bad of course.  Going to see those rocks on a boat is not a every-day experience, it was my first time to explore this part of Hong Kong, it was so amazing!  I have enjoyed it and was so glad I didn’t throw up.  When I was shooting (with all my concentration), I thought little about the sea, but after a while my head just went spinning.  Haha luckily I didn’t embarrass myself!

 

Last… here is a picture of me - sunburnt horribly :)  Picture by Anna (yes, I looked awful!)

 

Mid-Autumn Festival

 

Date: 4 September 2011

Venue: Victoria Park, Causeway Bay

 

I was an hour early for the shoot.  But then I really couldn’t get myself to work on my assignment anymore.  I waited patiently in the MTR station, leaning on the wall, drinking Vita lemon tea and reading one of my favourite Jinyong book (The return of the condor heroes 神雕俠侶), I really was enjoying myself, until… when my beloved Chan-sir found me hiding from the crowd - he was about half an hour early :)

 

It was a total disappointment in Victoria Park, to me anyway.  There was only a really really really huge fish made of a thousand lanterns, and few lanterns of small fish, that’s IT.  Geez.  I stood there and thinking what to shoot, when I saw this guy…

And he was clearly enjoying himself (though he was swearing when he saw us shooting at him).

  

 

While we were waiting for the real, paid model… here came another: less sophisticated yet more interesting one!

  

She was just a doll!  So cute!  Very curious too, when we took her pictures and my teachers showed her her own pictures, she just kept coming back for more.

The gold in her hair!!

 

I wasn’t interested in taking  pictures of our model.  I am not going to say anything bad about her, it’s just I wasn’t interested in her.

 

Well, I found things to shoot in the “nothingness” of the park.

 

Like the nice décor..

 

And finally, the fish.

Look at this Guinness-record-breaking giant fish, it’s outrageous, isn’t it?

  

While we were all waiting for the lanterns to lit up…

 

Here it goes :)

 

These 2 are badly tilted.

   

 

It wasn’t so bad actually.  It was just so different from what I had in mind before I went.  Anyway, Mid-Autumn festival is over now, I hope you all had a great time and had a lot of mooncakes (no, thanks!)!

time

 

is passing by.

Good bye July.

 

Shek O

 

Date: 15 May 2011

Venue: Shek O

 

Photography class.  We went to Shek O while it was drizzling.  Luckily the rain stopped a while after.

 

We were exercising with the shutter speed with the wave.  Here are what I’ve got:

      

 

Shek O is a famous place for barbequing.  Actually I’ve been there for quite some times yet I haven’t been to the other side of the island, where there were full of rocks and there was even a nice little bridge.

 

Later I learned that it is a very famous spot for wedding pictures.  I can’t imaging myself taking my own wedding pictures there but… well, obviously it isn’t or others.

 

 

The rocks were crazily slippery.  I almost felt, my right knee got a huge bruise but well, I got lucky and didn’t fall of course.  But the picture taken on the right was quite worth it!

 

This actually is one of my favourite picture of the day :)