Cheung Chau

The Island of Cheung Chau is an outlying island of Hong Kong, its nickname is the ‘dumbell island’ as it is shaped like a dumbell. It is a place where the locals often go to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and enjoy a day in the sunshine taking in some …

Shenzhen

This City is a mecca for nerds, it happening to look an awful lot like Gotham at night helps it here. I had the privilege of spending a weekend in the Electronics Manufacturing Capital of the world with a friend of mine before Chinese New Year Day 1 We arrived quite late in the day …

Chinese New Year Flower Fair

A shorter one this week, I went to the Flower Market here in Victoria Park a few weeks ago. It was an event for Chinese New Year however because of the size of my backlog I have only just gotten round to editing these This gave me an opportunity to practice my street portraits, I’ve …

Suicide Cliff II

This post is gonna be less story and more pretty because I didn’t take enough pictures to properly create a story but it’s worth the post anyway with just how pretty this whole day was This is one of the first few outings I did with my new lens (finally upgraded the stock 18-55 to …

Big Buddha, Po Lin Monastery, and Wisdom Path

This week we’re continuing our quest to get on top of all the trips I’ve done but not written up yet by jumping back to October when I hiked up to the Big Buddha with another friend of mine, we’ll meet her again in Shenzhen whenever I get round to writing that up. Now you …

Suicide Cliff I

As all things in Hong Kong do we started the day at an MTR station, in this case City One MTR in Sha Tin. Here I met up with a friend of mine from uni and we got going. We ended up choosing a great day for this hike, the weather was slightly cooler than …

Hong Kong: New Year 2019

Happy belated New Year, I am aware that my NYE post has come out after my Chinese New Year post but that’s poor planning on my behalf, and a warning that most of these blogs will be in a random order as I’m trying to clear a backlog of stuff while constantly shooting more Anyway …

Hong Kong: Victoria Peak I

From the HKU Campus up to Victoria Peak is a quick 45 minute hike, well more of a walk really but it reveals some spectacular views of Hong Kong and not just the one from the top The day started as many do in the learning commons at HKU which, if you get a space, …

Chinese New Year

Happy New Year of the Pig 2019 everybody, I didn’t take my camera up to the peak so you’ll have to deal with phone photos for this week. I have however been busy, Chinese New Year presents a lot of opportunities and you’ve got the week off which helps. The New Years Parade through Kowloon …