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On a wintery day in Beijing, a lone woman is on display along with an old steam engine. Many people stood in front of the old steam engine for a photo, because the old steam engine represented history, a moment in the past that has traveled to the present, unscathed. When a shutter goes off, it created another history of it's own, linking the past to the present. With that evidence of the moment in hand, we can now travel to the future in the comfort of knowing that we're now also a participant in history, and our existence seems just a little more tangible than a moment ago.
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No matter how you frame it, life becomes art, for art is every part of life when you're in Paris.
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I was walking around the Kennedy Town Piers last night, came across a huge pile of freshly arrived bamboos. No, they're not for eating, they're used for scaffolding during building constructions. Hong Kong is probably the only place in the world that still uses the bamboo scaffolding.
While I was shooting the bamboo pile with long exposures. A group of photographers with their model decided to set up their shoot against the same background. They set up their lights and flashes and promptly ruined my long exposure shots.
I was a bit annoyed, decided to wrap up and return to shoot the scene later.
As I was walking away, I looked back, and thought the scene looked a bit surreal. With that glowing red sky in the back, it's as if the bamboo wall was holding back Armageddon and the girl is single handily saving the world like the little dutch boy. And the photographers like a diligent news crew that's there to document the heroic effort.
Shortly after this shot was taken, the man in blue on the left, decided to stand in front of me, to block me from shooting. Claiming that they paid for the model, thus I'm not allowed to shoot any photo with her in it.
BTW, this is the shot I went back to shoot later:
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Actually, there was a real tragedy today, shortly after I arrived at the beach, someone was reported missing, in no time the beach was filled with emergency personnel. Divers started to comb the ocean to no avail. Of Course, the TV crew followed not far behind. They found the man more than 24 hours after he was reported missing. He was a retired Hong Kong University professor.
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