Early last December, I went on a trip to Hong Kong with my Australian friends. As usual, I tried to capture as much of the city as I could while I was there.

Travelling with friends who love street photography meant that it was a good opportunity to give it another go as well, and I did. I liked a few of the shots I got (Including the four shown below), even though my attempts at it weren't particularly successful. It was also a lot of fun to be wandering around the city with my friends, and watching them capture their shots.

Apart from attempting street shots, I also got a few opportunities to shoot some of my long exposure shots. I particularly liked the one below. It was shot from Tsim Sha Tsui a few minutes before sunset, with the partially hidden sun giving a warm contrast to the blue shadows of the skyscrapers and the rest of the city.

I also attempted a few more abstract architectural shots, including the two below, where I tried to isolate patterns and lines from the building facades to make them look like artistic shots. Let me know if you think they worked.

In our wanderings around Hong Kong, we also went to the Sky 100 Observation Deck to get views of the city. Much of the cityscape was partly shrouded by smog (as was expected of Hong Kong), but the views were still fairly fantastic. It was difficult to get good shots, however, due to the reflective glass windows.

One final 'highlight' of the trip was the attempt to shoot the sunset from Victoria Peak, which was an absolute fail due to the cloudy and smoggy weather that we got on the day we chose to go up. Of all the days for the weather to be at its worst, it had to be that one day (We had sunny weather for a number of other days). So the end result of about an hour's waiting was the below shot, where the only sign of sunset was the slight purple cast that you see in the photo.

Overall, the trip wasn't the most successful photography-wise, as I had way more failed shots than successful ones that I liked. However, it was an absolute blast travelling with my university friends, especially since I hadn't seen most of them for more than a year. Being able to hang out and talk photography stuff (and other things) was great. I hope to be able to do so again sometime soon.

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Till the next time,

Raylen