Hong Kong Market

My beautiful picture

 

Momentarily when I arrived home, I was happy to see the internet had been fixed…then I sat down and it stopped again. Perhaps its some radio wave I emit when I enter the house!? Its working right now at least, so I will get on with todays post.

Shot back something like a decade now in Hong Kong on my Minolta Dynax, I captured this image from one of the local market streets. It had been raining, and I vaguely recall walking up behing the old lady with the brolly to frame her in the shot looking up the street.

Originally shot in colour film, after it being scanned in, I converted to B&W in gimp, and slightly cropped the aspect of the image.

I’d love to get the opportunity to stop over at Hong Kong again. Its a world apart from here in New Zealand, and perhaps its that difference that makes it so appealing. I love the contrast of buildings and people around. Following various bloggers and youtube channels, I like to see what is changing and what is the same. One day I’ll head back.

The Green Lagoon

So its really more a pond then a lagoon, I think. Ive been battling a bit of a cold these last few days, today being the worst of it so far. I spent all the day inside, and when I was feeling up ‘enough’ to go for a stroll with the camera it started raining and getting dark. Ive been sitting on a bunch of negatives from many years gone by and took the opportunity to start converting them to digital.

Todays image was captured in a small bush walk in Singapore several years ago. What stunned me when scanning it was how green everything is! Coming from New Zealand I’m used to ‘green’, but the combination of the film used and how it was developed really gave this place a lush look that had slipped from my memory. As with some of my Hong Kong images I have posted, this was taken on my old Minolta 7si 35mm slr.

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