As posts continue to percolate in my swollen, post-vacation glob of a brain, I bring you more purty pictures from abroad. After Thailand I flew on a ludicrously nice plane to Hong Kong and stayed (for freesies!) with a friend in his family’s apartment. We explored the islands, and my shoes got wet, and also it was Lunar New Year, so there were craptons of rabbits and dragons all over the place. We didn’t eat stinky tofu, but we smelled it. Cadbury’s chocolate was widely, gloriously available. I will expand upon these in my later posts, but those are the (only) important aspects. For now, bask a hobbyists futile, masturbatory attempts to be arty.
Yer pictures sure are purty!
Thank you! It’s nerdy, but any time I see a blogger I recognize in the comments here, I get childishly excited.
Love the shot of the trees!
I lived in Vietnam for 11 months and missed Tet by one week–the biggest event of the year! Damn schedules!
blogging from Haiti,
Kathy
Ahh, a shame. Pretty much anywhere in Asia you’re bound to see something cool and weird around Lunar New Year.
Lovely shots
Thank you!
Loved the photos; my favourite is the light bulb. Your talent grows grasshopper; soon you will be able to walk the rice paper and take photos without leaving a mark or making a sound!
Can I also eat the rice paper?
The lightbulb was the first shot I took in Hong Kong. I arrived, we ate dinner, and walked in the night markets, and I saw nice bare lightbulbs dangling around.
Actually, you’re quite a wonderful photographer…thanks for offering this up.
I’m going to quit yammering about myself in self-deprecation as it begins to approach it’s own self-absorption, but thank you very much! I’m so used to photography as a hobby I only take seriously as far as I don’t have to learn about it too much, so I’m quite flattered.
wow…amazing shots once again. Keep impresseing me!
-Tia
http://www.tiallarising.wordpress.com
I will do what I can!
Gorgeous pictures. I am completely jealous! =)
Why thank you!
Nice pics! Seems like you had a great trip in HK! Good you got there to see the night markets for Chinese New Year! Did you see the fireworks?
I only saw them on TV. I was staying with a friend, and he was to meet his Hong Kong relatives for the first time that night. His mother called him, and then called her siblings, and suggested, “Why not bring whitey?” Indeed, he did bring whitey, and we had New Year’s dinner at his relatives’ home while the fireworks were on.
That sounds like a pretty good New Year dinner with your friend’s family. This year’s fireworks were pretty cool with the bunny faces and words. I saw it near the harbour.
Yeah, I saw some of them on TV, they did look pretty impressive.
Hey buddy, awesome photos, and im not just being nice, I’m actually kinda jealous, as someone who tries to sell my photography, you have an abundance of beauty to photograph and honestly, you’re doing it justice…. I’m sooo glad you got that camera, and I am looking to paint something, any favourite photos you would like painted with proper credit and a copy =) ???
miss u much !! =) – insert interweb hug here-
Part of it, and this is from my friend Faith, “If I take photos of a pretty thing, then I’ve pretty much got a pretty photo.” There’s no specific one that I really want painted, I was crazy satisfied with a lot of these (and my personal favourites might not translate perfectly into paint, as I loooved the one of the people on the beach as soon as I took it). The bamboo one might be good, but I don’t want it to be too similar to any of your other pieces.
Hey, I think your photography’s great!
Thank you very much!