Friday, May 27
Tuesday, April 24
Red Leaves at Lion’s Nature Education Centre
Date: 28 January 2012
Venue: Lion’s Nature Education Centre, Sai Kung
There are actually quite a few places where you can go in Hong Kong to see red leaves. If you are as poor as I am, you just have to adapt and live - exploring my own beloved Hong Kong!
Of course I was invited again to go with my photographer crew: Chan-sir, Anna, Rosanna and Dennis. To be honest, if they didn’t tell me, I couldn’t have known that there are red leaves in Sai Kung - it’s so close to where I live! Anyway, here we go :)
It was a bit cloudy at the beginning, and a bit chill when we arrived, but we were determined to find the plum blossoms, which are also quite famous. Oh well. It turned out to be a disappointment. There were a few spare plum blossoms… after we have been to Huhan and all, these plum trees were nothing in comparison! I basically just gave up and shot butterflies instead, which was more interesting anyway. My most beloved and talented Chan-sir went shooting red leaves while Anna, Rosanna and Dennis tried their best to shoot plum blossoms. They have some quite nice shots as well!
Here are my butterfly shots.
Owing to the weather, my pictures are over-exposed but that’s the way I like them! Very dreamy.
My mood was so-la-la… so I just shot around playfully :)
The education centre is quite big, and there are many different things to shoot. Flowers, grasses, trees, birds, lotus, bamboos… you name it! And of course red leaves!
There were many red leaves!
My red leaves pictures are then again so-la-la! Not very impressive but I can’t deny the fact that taking photos calms my soul and makes me happy! Later on the sun came out and I was like a bird again :)
There were many leaves fell on the floor…. making it a beautiful disarrayed map!
…along with many nameless trees.
Many red leaves :)
Shall go again next year when I am around :D Hong Kong is such a pretty place! Just go out and explore!
Sunday, March 18
The Journey of Flowers
Went to Victoria Park with Yan the other day. It was of course packed with people, as expected. I really am tired of the crowds in the city. The nice weather eased things up for us: we were wearing dresses and it felt exactly like summer!
Didn’t take many shots… I wonder where the hyacinths were while they were the theme this year… It was so crazy how few hyacinths were in the show! Yan commented that there are more hyacinths in the park near where she lives than in the show, haha.
Green always attracts my attention, it’s my favourite colour :)
And here we go… some hyacinths!
Of course then I wondered why there were so many…
They are very very beautiful actually and hyacinths are not my flowers…. I am sorry to say.
There were many different types of TULIPS! They are elegant and beautiful…
…and are always crowded by people (the red is too crazy)!
And here comes the end of the journey…
Saturday, March 3
Sakura in Hong Kong
Was invited by Anna to Cheung Chau for the Sakura. We have Sakura in Hong Kong! I can’t remember the history of the only Sakura tree here, but undoubtedly it is always surrounded with people when it blossoms. It was so incredible, it also shows how much Hong Kong people love following the smoke.
People, people, people. I wonder how do they get to know about the tree too. It was easy for me to answer, obviously Anna lives in Cheung Chau and she knows all about the tree.
The truth is, I didn’t think the tree looked like the *real* Japanese Sakura. I still don’t think it does. It must have been one of the species.
I’ve got a few nice pictures… and here they come!
They look alike because they are my pictures!
The whole time I thought about how to take nicer pictures. I noted their pattern of growth, they blossom in bunches and that they have really nice curves. And the whole time we ate. We ate, we ate and we ate, we had snacks and drinks, seafood dinner, desserts, then was invited to Häagen-Dasz for dessert again! Life is just beautiful, what more can I ask for?
My day was a bliss!
P.S. I had accidentally adjusted my camera with EV-3, thus all the pictures looked kind of overexposed. I suppose they have their own of beauty, yeah?
Sunday, January 29
Tuesday, October 25
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!
Friday, October 21
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!)
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