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Showing posts with label Black and White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black and White. Show all posts
14 May 2012
8 May 2012
More Braun Ultralit
Photos I took with a cheap Braun Ultralit point and shoot. I think I will retire this camera now. The focus is off so many times and it's not very good in low light. All together it's just not that much fun if half of the photos in one roll are messed up somehow.
6 May 2012
Double Exposure
1-3 Lago di Como & Lamma Island
4- St Gotthard & Lamma Island
Eposed during my trip to Italy with the Nikon, forgotten and exposed again on Lamma with a P&S Braun Ultralit.
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Hong Kong,
Ilford,
Iso 400,
Italy,
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Nikon Fm3a,
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Switzerland
16 April 2012
11 October 2011
Graham Street Market
1- Fruit stalls at Graham Street Market
2- Flower Shop at Graham Street Market
3- Wing Woo Groceries
4- Dai Pai Dong close to Graham Street Market
The pictures are of Graham Street Market in Central. Graham Street Market is one of the oldest outdoor markets in Hong Kong. It's been around for 160 years. Even before Hong Kong became a British colony there was a bazaar on this site, selling provisions to the ships arriving in Hong Kong. Unfortunately the Urban Renewal Authority is planning to redevelop Graham Street and Peel Street. When they say redevelop they actually mean tearing down the old buildings and building higher, more profitable high-rises instead. This will affect 37 building and 78 shops. It will start 2015 and be completed in 2021.
Instead of just renovating the buildings, like it is done in most places in the world the URA instead tears down most of the ones built in 50s and 60s, keeps the facade of the pre-war buildings and fills in the rest with hotels, luxurious apartments and other crap not catered to the existing residents of that area, but for richer class with more consumer power. Local residents are relocated and compensated. If compensation for something like that is even possible.
The corner house of Wellington Street and Peel Street was housing one of the oldest shops in that area selling eggs, groceries and dried goods called Wing Woo Groceries, which was in business for more than 80 years and closed in 2009. The URA offered the owner compensation and he retired due to old age. The shops interior will be preserved for a museum.
1 April 2011
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