After a long 12 hour coach ride from Guilin, getting through passport control in Shenzhen, I was finally on the last metro train to Hong Kong, got to my hotel in Kowloon and hit the sack. Next day I visited the Central Business District (CBD) and was greeted by the sea of protesters tents covering the streets, things had almost died down here but the protesters weren’t giving up that easily. Luckly for me this gave an interesting spin on the photography side of things so I got snapping away and checked out what was happening then walked up to Causeway Bay to catch the classic tram. Next few days was full of checking out this amazing city & also a trip to see the Tian Tan Buddha, serious bit of bronze statue! and at night I watched the Symphony of Lights show on the Victoria Harbour.
This modern building of the central business district was overshadowed by the many tents of the protestersPoster of the ‘Umbrella Girl’ of the HK protestsThe umbrella, the symbol of the Hong Kong protestsThe story of the Umbrella Movement in plain EnglishWhat has been named as the 'Lennon Wall', thousands of stickie notes written by people from across the globe in support of the protestAs I arrived in Hong Kong one of the first things I noticed was the protest movement was still going on, it was in it's last stages but made for some interesting photos!This is cool, Studio Ghibli characters holding the yellow umbrellas!Tent TankOne of the protesters reading material, like the different shades of purple in this photoHotel stay 1 of 2 in Hong Kong, compact room!It's great that they still run the Hong Kong Tramways here, or 'Ding Ding's' as their knownThe famous Sogo building in Causeway Bay, this place is kinda like New York Times Square but there own one called 'Times Square Hong Kong'The Hong Kong Symphony of Lights show on the water frontThe famous HK river front lit up at nightBruce Lee coming at yer...The ever so colourful street life of Hong Kong, this street is in Mong KokHK public light busesClose-up of a HK public light busPublic light buses waiting to departHourly hotel signOne of the thousands of colourful fluorescent signs in Hong Kong ~ like the tea symbol in this oneDowntown Kowloon, Hong KongA classic HK building in Kowloon, this one's a hotelBack street around the corner from my hotel in Jordon, KowloonPoster for the Hong Kong French Film Festival I spotted in the metro stationLooking out of the cable car on the way to see the Tian Tan BuddhaSmall village at the foot of Tian Tan Buddha, Hong KongEntrance to Tian Tan Buddha, Hong KongStatue at the foot of Tian Tan Buddha, Hong KongThe Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island ~ isn't he something! wowClose up of the Tian Tan BuddhaThe Offering of the Six Devas, here's two of Buddhistic statues praising and making offerings to the Tian Tan Buddha with the backdrop of the Po Lin Monastery in the distanceThe huge Tian Tan Buddha of Hong Kong, the two guys in the bottom of the picture make me think of wise old martial arts teachers for some reason...Wire elephant sculptures outside Times SquareAwesome wire car scuplture, this reminded me of something out of the film Roger RabbitWoman shopping in a Hong Kong marketThe Muslim Cemetery in Hong KongI actually got locked into this cemetery with a mix up of the shutting times, getting out proved to be quite difficult as well but thats another story, it was all worth it to get this cool night shot!Set up my tripod and timer in the middle of the street to get this (Luckly the HK cops didn't mind!) light trail of a tram going past, happy with how the different colours turned out in thisDowntown Hong Kong
