This is a view of Hong Kong from my room there at The Ritz-Carlton on my last morning there. It was absolutely surreal to watch the fog roll in and out of the buildings on the other side of the river. I was on the “Kowloon” side and across the water there is the Hong Kong side. It was pretty fun taking the photo because the fog was moving very fast, hiding and showing different buildings every few seconds. So, rather than “guess,” I just took about 100 photos and found the best one later in Lightroom. I’m lazy like that. 🙂

Hong Kong in the Fog

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• Date Taken2018-03-16 13:25:41
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/640
• Aperture4.5
• ISO200
• Focal Length31.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I’ve been taking more and more photos when I don’t show the horizon. So many cities are recognizable by their skyline… so sometimes I like to obscure that information. Hong Kong is also known for this particular shape of building. I think in the 70’s and 80’s that the Chinese government built about 100 buildings of this same design and crammed them all together like this.

Hong Kong Forever

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• Date Taken2018-03-16 00:20:27
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time8
• Aperture6.3
• ISO200
• Focal Length240.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias+2

One day my friend Simon started showing lots of cool secret spots all over Hong Kong. Some of these places were really hard to get into… especially because it was illegal. I don’t know why I keep engaging in illegal activities in China. It doesn’t really seem that smart, now that I think about it!

Exploring Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-15 20:30:58
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/20
• Aperture3.5
• ISO200
• Focal Length16.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

This was my first time to visit this radical area of Hong Kong. I think I had maybe been here ten years before, but that was in the middle of the daytime in the sweltering heat. You can only hang out in Chinese fish markets in blazing heat for a short time before you’ve had enough. I had never thought about how beautiful it would be at dusk with all the colorful lights spilling into the streets, though.

Alley in Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-14 23:44:39
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture4
• ISO3200
• Focal Length98.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

I took this on my last morning there before catching the ferry over to Macau. That turned out to be one of the longest days of the trip because it was nonstop action in Macau. We had dinner with the PR guy that works for the Ritz-Carlton there. He told us some of the CRAZIEST STORIES about what happens in Macau… my goodness… it makes Vegas look like a kindergarten playground.

Foggy and Moody Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-16 13:25:17
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/640
• Aperture5.6
• ISO200
• Focal Length80.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Here’s a new shot that I recently processed from a rather exciting quad flight over some government housing in Hong Kong. I was standing in the sun, and it was pretty hard to see the screen to see what I was capturing. This is actually a common problem. I’ve been meaning to pick up a hood, the cool Smart Controller or maybe even one of those FPV headsets.

Hong Kong From Way Above

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• Date Taken2018-03-15 17:25:30
• CameraFC220
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/297
• Aperture2.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.7 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias-0.344

Here’s a fun new photo I’m quite happy with! I took it about half a year ago when I was in Hong Kong, but haven’t processed it until recently. I used one of my Luminar presets from above!

Shopping Street in Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-14 23:46:59
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/60
• Aperture4
• ISO3200
• Focal Length82.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

Drone photography is so fun! In some ways, almost anything is interesting from a top-down perspective. One of my challenges with this is to choose the MOST interesting things. I like to try to find simple patterns or interesting colors that are a bit confusing. Like, what kind of court is that on the top of the photo? I’m really not sure… is it badminton? I always thought that was such a silly sport, but what do I know? I mean, why not play Tennis or Ping Pong, each of which seems to be a lot more fun to me.

Colorful Courts

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• Date Taken2018-03-13 17:20:37
• CameraFC220
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/270
• Aperture2.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.7 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias

…with a 1% chance it is Tokyo. I have a ton of photos like this from Tokyo, and I don’t exactly remember taking this photo. I mean, I know I took it because it ended up on my camera. It might have been after one of those long nights out with the guys, taking photos and then having a long dinner with a lot of wine. I usually like to take a long walk back to the hotel and take photos along the way, and maybe this is how this photo came to be!

I’m 99% Sure this is Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-13 23:55:57
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time30
• Aperture14
• ISO100
• Focal Length26.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias+2

I feel like this Blade Runner trope is getting old. I wish I had another comparison to make. Fifth Element, maybe? Yeah, either way, even though I am a total introvert, I do enjoy spending a bit of time in these crazy cities. Maybe because I live in a tiny town of less than 50,000, I get overly excited with my camera when hitting these megacities in China.

Blade Runner in Hong Kong

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• Date Taken2018-03-16 00:16:35
• CameraILCE-7RM3
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time8
• Aperture6.3
• ISO200
• Focal Length141.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias+2