two weeks before i arrived, a cable car service from 東涌 (tung chung) to 昂坪 (ngong ping) opened. the trip takes around twenty-five minutes during which you can see the walkway underneath you. it’d be a great walk but would takes ages. the scenery is fantastic.
if you look closely at the large picture of the buddha, you’ll see a blue blob at the bottom. that’s a person. it was a very big buddha.
there are quite a few scenery pictures here along with a sneaky one of my friend chi facing the buddha.
the cable car goes over a shallow coastline where there are hundreds of people cockling (my best guess). the high viewpoint makes for great pictures (you should look at the larger pictures for more detail - click the magnifying glass).
that night, the moon was the closest to the earth it’s been for eleven years so there was a family bbq. all the children were playing with cyalume sticks and i hoped to get a few more good pictures, but just the one came out well.
on the last day, we went out with chi’s family for a day on a boat. we dropped anchor near one of the southern bays and spent the afternoon swimming and eating. a pretty perfect day.
i’ll be going back

the sun was out on saturday so i trekked all the way north to regents park. there are the best of the bunch…

edit: i’ve reframed one of the fountain images a little. it’s tacked on the end…

just the one…

the first pic is an HDR image composed of several bracketed exposures. the second is the image from which the sky was extracted (for those who prefer silhouettes to grainy foregrounds).

driving home tonight the sky ran an excellent blue through red. i stopped in a few different places and managed to get these.

some simple pictures from a park in ealing

guernsey’s a summer place really but the little chapel and the cliffs do give you something to look at during the winter. the little chapel is the smallest consecrated church in the world (so i’m told) and is only big enough for the minister, a couple getting married and the two witnesses. it’s completely decorated with shells and broken pottery.