Saturday, September 17

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…

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Like the nice décor..

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And finally, the fish.

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

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

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Here it goes :)

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These 2 are badly tilted.

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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!)!