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Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Friday, February 22, 2019
An Unexpected Visit to the Sunshine Kowloon Bay Cargo Centre in Hong Kong
I hadn't expected to arrive in Prince Edwards, Hong Kong, at 11:30 a.m. yesterday.
Oh, the location was expected. But the time was not since I had departed Jiangmen only 3.5 hours before, and a similar recent trip from a closer location, Zhongshan, had taken longer. Arriving earlier than expected was grand though.
I had expected to stop by the Mongkok Computer Centre yesterday afternoon. I had also expected during this visit I wouldn't be able to fully resolve the problem which had brought me there. But I hadn't expected that after some assistance, I would head to Kowloon Bay.
And I hadn't expected that yesterday I would find myself at the Sunshine Kowloon Bay Cargo Centre.
Some readers must be wondering if the Sunshine Kowloon Bay Cargo Centre is a fine building. It is.
After entering the building, I hadn't expected that finding a way to the upper levels would be slightly tricky. Here is a later photo I took which which I believe captures somebody receiving friendly assistance to reach those levels:
After finding the elevator and exiting it on the 2nd floor (what would be labeled the 3rd floor in the U.S.), I hadn't expected to see no signs of my intended destination. So I picked a direction and found myself in a distribution centre for Circle K, a convenience store chain.
Soon a person who hadn't expected me to be in the Circle K distribution centre explained (hollered) that I shouldn't be there. Then an older man who presumably wasn't surprised to see yet another person in the wrong place immediately guessed my intended destination and directed me there.
Thank you, sir.
Shortly after that, I found my destination.
When I left Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year holiday I hadn't expected to return so soon. I also hadn't expected that I would have significant problems with an external hard drive I had bought there. I had expected that having discarded the box would make resolving the problem more challenging. It did, but I hadn't expected that things would go as smoothly as they did nonetheless.
In short, the external hard drive I had bought has been replaced. As soon as I feel reasonably confident all is OK with it, I will be heading out of Hong Kong once more. While I wish the drive I had bought before had lived a long life, at least the experience of replacing it afforded opportunities to open my eyes to new things.
More about some of those things and also the new travel options in and out of Hong Kong someday.
I expect.
Oh, the location was expected. But the time was not since I had departed Jiangmen only 3.5 hours before, and a similar recent trip from a closer location, Zhongshan, had taken longer. Arriving earlier than expected was grand though.
I had expected to stop by the Mongkok Computer Centre yesterday afternoon. I had also expected during this visit I wouldn't be able to fully resolve the problem which had brought me there. But I hadn't expected that after some assistance, I would head to Kowloon Bay.
And I hadn't expected that yesterday I would find myself at the Sunshine Kowloon Bay Cargo Centre.
Some readers must be wondering if the Sunshine Kowloon Bay Cargo Centre is a fine building. It is.
After entering the building, I hadn't expected that finding a way to the upper levels would be slightly tricky. Here is a later photo I took which which I believe captures somebody receiving friendly assistance to reach those levels:
After finding the elevator and exiting it on the 2nd floor (what would be labeled the 3rd floor in the U.S.), I hadn't expected to see no signs of my intended destination. So I picked a direction and found myself in a distribution centre for Circle K, a convenience store chain.
Soon a person who hadn't expected me to be in the Circle K distribution centre explained (hollered) that I shouldn't be there. Then an older man who presumably wasn't surprised to see yet another person in the wrong place immediately guessed my intended destination and directed me there.
Thank you, sir.
Shortly after that, I found my destination.
When I left Hong Kong during the Lunar New Year holiday I hadn't expected to return so soon. I also hadn't expected that I would have significant problems with an external hard drive I had bought there. I had expected that having discarded the box would make resolving the problem more challenging. It did, but I hadn't expected that things would go as smoothly as they did nonetheless.
In short, the external hard drive I had bought has been replaced. As soon as I feel reasonably confident all is OK with it, I will be heading out of Hong Kong once more. While I wish the drive I had bought before had lived a long life, at least the experience of replacing it afforded opportunities to open my eyes to new things.
More about some of those things and also the new travel options in and out of Hong Kong someday.
I expect.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
40 Photos Taken With a New Camera and Lens in Hong Kong
I had not originally planned to spend time in Hong Kong so early this year, but an urgent need for a new camera and lens changed things. Both in terms of options and prices, purchasing a camera in Hong Kong was a far better option than doing so in mainland China, especially given what I was seeking and that I was relatively close to Hong Kong. My previous camera and lens had both been in far-from-ideal states for some time. Although I found workarounds for some problems such as malfunctioning dials, dust buried deep in the sensor, and problematic autofocusing, their state certainly had affected how and what I photographed for a period of time. So there was some good that matters had reached a state where I was forced to upgrade (repairs weren't sensible given what they would cost).
I only stayed in Hong Kong long enough to purchase the camera & lens and to feel reasonably confident all was well with them. So below are 40 photos presented in the order they were taken with the theme "photos I took while testing my new camera and lens for a few days in Hong Kong", although I hope in the process to share yet a little more about Hong Kong. I won't get into technical details, but I'll share that all of the photos are unaltered "as is" from the jpeg files the camera produced, except reduced in size.
Scenes and locations were motivated by a variety of factors, including simply testing the camera under certain conditions and other pragmatic matters. I would have set the camera differently if I took some of these photos now or if I had known all of those pigeons were going to suddenly take off in my direction. I covered far fewer locations than typical for a Hong Kong stay. Still, I managed to capture scenes in areas such as Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, and Kowloon City.
Anyway, the photos are what they are. And of course, more will come.
I only stayed in Hong Kong long enough to purchase the camera & lens and to feel reasonably confident all was well with them. So below are 40 photos presented in the order they were taken with the theme "photos I took while testing my new camera and lens for a few days in Hong Kong", although I hope in the process to share yet a little more about Hong Kong. I won't get into technical details, but I'll share that all of the photos are unaltered "as is" from the jpeg files the camera produced, except reduced in size.
Scenes and locations were motivated by a variety of factors, including simply testing the camera under certain conditions and other pragmatic matters. I would have set the camera differently if I took some of these photos now or if I had known all of those pigeons were going to suddenly take off in my direction. I covered far fewer locations than typical for a Hong Kong stay. Still, I managed to capture scenes in areas such as Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, and Kowloon City.
Anyway, the photos are what they are. And of course, more will come.
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| Red lanterns at Lee Tung Avenue |
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| Photographic moment at Lee Tung Avenue |
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| Birds at . . . |
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| Kwan Kee Birds & Small Animals |
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| Tram and Five Guys |
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| Vendor in Wan Chai |
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| Arsenal Street tram stop on Hennessy Road |
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| Playing in the fountain at Hong Kong Park |
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| Playing in the sand at Hong Kong Park |
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| Running at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden |
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| De Brazza's monkey spotting a human at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden |
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| Below the Glenealy Flyover |
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| The Glenealy Flyover |
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| Above the Glenealy Flyover (and a change of light) |
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| Looking up from the parade ground at Tai Kwun |
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| A local Young Master IPA at HK Brew Craft |
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| Fruit loops cones at Emack & Bolio's |
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| Topman and Topshop |
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| The Lunar Fantasy with Ancient Auspicious Animals at Times Square |
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| Sea of flowers at the Lunar Fantasy with Ancient Auspicious Animals |
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| Advertising in front of Times Square |
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| Multistory escalator in Hysan Place |
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| View of Ma Tau Wai Road from the upper level of a Hong Kong double-decker bus |
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| Herbal tea stand in Kowloon City |
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| Art at the Cattle Depot Artist Village |
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| Ma Tau Kok Road |
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| Footbridge on a Sunday in Mong Kok |
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| Fish for sale at the Fa Yuen Street Market |
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| Junk in Victoria Harbour |
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| Lunar New Year pig sculpture at Harbour City |
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| Photographing the Symphony of Lights from a Star Ferry boat |
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| Pedestrian subway in Tsim Sha Tsui |
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| Looking down at the ground floor of the Chungking Mansions |
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| Top of the The Masterpiece skyscraper seen through the Victoria Dockside |
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| Photographic opportunity with the pig cartoon character McDull at the Avenue of the Stars |
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| Pigeons taking flight at Kowloon Park |
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| Miss 13 Dots at the Hong Kong Avenue of Comic Stars |
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| Looking down at a multistory escalator in Langham Place |
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| Fa Yuen Market |
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| Minibus and crowd in Mong Kok |
Monday, February 11, 2019
Scenes from Piggish Hong Kong Lunar New Year Fairs at Victoria Park and Fa Hui Park
As in the past, Hong Kong recently held Lunar New Year Fairs in 15 locations for a period of seven days. Five years ago I shared a number of scenes from the Victoria Park Lunar New Year Fair and the Fa Hui Park Lunar New Year Fair in Hong Kong. This year I had the chance to visit both again. Below is a set of photos capturing a variety of scenes from the two fairs. I visited Victoria Park Saturday evening and Fai Hui Park Sunday afternoon just before the Lunar Near Year. In general, the fairs were much as they were five years ago with the exception that were many more pig-themed items for sale — not surprising since it is now Year of the Pig. Like before, the photos capture a variety of stalls and the large crowds. And of course there a few scenes from their respective flower markets. One thing is deliberately missing though. The politically themed stalls at Victoria Park, which I featured five years ago, will appear in a later post.
And that's all for now. For Lunar New Year Fair photos taken in other locations, last year I visited the Taipei Lunar New Year Festival at Dihua Street and Macau's Lunar New Year Festival at Tap Seac Square.
Fa Hui Park Lunar New Year Fair
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| One of the entrances to the fair |
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| A dense crowd |
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| Basketball is off limits |
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| Pigs and more |
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| Giant stuffed ancient coins |
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| More pigs |
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| One of the locations to get some fair food |
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| Ah Tak - the green “keep clean ambassador” for Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department |
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| Some of the many flowers for sale |
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| Not all flowers found a home in time |
Victoria Park Lunar New Year Fair
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| Simply making one's way from one side of the aisle to the other through the very dense crowd proved quite challenging. |
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| Yes, pigs |
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| Some Hong Kong pride |
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| Bubbles abounded |
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| Slower than a crawling pace |
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| Shirts with messages of some sort |
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| Putting ladders to use to sell pigs |
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| One last pig-themed stall |
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| The trash overflowed |
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| Non-trashy and unwilted colors |
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| These flowers sold shortly after I took the photo |
And that's all for now. For Lunar New Year Fair photos taken in other locations, last year I visited the Taipei Lunar New Year Festival at Dihua Street and Macau's Lunar New Year Festival at Tap Seac Square.
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