Hong Kong in Pictures

Here are some of the pho­tos I took in Hong Kong, in Feb­ru­ary 2009. I was plan­ning on writ­ing more about it, describ­ing the pho­tos, but some­how life got in the way. So here they are, without much in the way of embel­lish­ment. The things that caught my eye: mostly con­trasts. I was fas­cin­ated by the con­trast between the old and the new, old build­ings reflec­ted in shiny new win­dows, cats sit­ting in stores calmly watch­ing the bustle in the street out­side, the rick­ety old ferry in the reclaimed har­bour, palm trees and gar­dens over­shad­owed by sky­scrapers whose tops are lost in the clouds. A fas­cin­at­ing city, I’d like to go back some time.

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