I Have A Life.

Should be taken in 2002 summer. In a former fortress, now a museum, in Hong Kong Island. These photos are the details of two uniform of high-ranking military officers of Ching Dynasty.



The craft shown on these clothes are splendid!

This is a grotesque on the door of a Temple. People use it to drive the bad luck away from the temple.It looks scary, but gorgeous. It is shameful to tell people that this level of craftmanship is hardly found in new Chinese-style buildings in both Hong Kong and China. Even when people repair old chinese historial buildings, they are not willing to put in money to reconstruct the valuable artworks. People just use concrete to build the shape of a building as cheap as possible, then use paints to paint something on it.

The original picture was taken with TMAX 100 in Nikon F100. The negative was also scatched. It was recovered by shooting the 3R color print with D70.

F100 :: AFD 50mm F1.8 :: TMAX 100 :: f8 :: -0.7ev :: point-metering :: on 3R color photo paper



Taken in 2003

Original: FM2 :: AFD 50mm F1.8 :: F8 :: EV=-1.0 :: Kodak EBIII 100

Recovered by : D70 :: AF 105mm F2.8

Edited with PS-CS



Today I tried to copy my old slide with D70, but the result was not good. Not even 50% of original image quality can be recovered. XP



Anyway, here is one of resized photos. Salted fishes. Taken in T.O..



I love slides.



中華の名物



「塩魚」が好きですが、大嫌いです。

それはおいしいです。しかし、塩気が重く過ぎです。



食べ過ぎる時、癌がひく事が可能です。そして、高血圧を得るでしょう。



ははの友たちの血圧はたかいです。しかし、塩魚がすきだから、時々たべます。ははは心配するね。



「塩魚」の写真が上にあります。頭は紙によって包まれます。だから、昆虫は魚頭に卵を置くことができない。



「塩魚」が高いものだ。「咸魚雞粒炒飯」が香港にポピュラーですね。機会があれば、たべてみましょう。

D70 :: AFD 18-35 F3.3-4.5 @24mm :: ISO1000 :: F4.5

1/60s :: 0ev :: Portrait :: flash :: SB-800 in i-TTL

auto-focus :: hand-hold



A very vivid cafe with gift shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.

Taken on 4.4.2004

D70 :: AFD 18-35 F3.3-4.5 @18mm :: ISO1000 :: F8

1/60s :: 0ev :: Portrait :: flash :: SB-800 in i-TTL

auto-focus :: hand-hold



This is also a restauant with gift shop and all-teddy-bear exhibition area. It is at Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon.

Taken on 4.4.2004

D70 :: AFD 18-35 F3.3-4.5 @24mm :: ISO1000

F8 :: 1/60s :: 0ev :: Portrait :: flash

SB-800 in i-TTL :: manual-focus :: hand-holdThis statue moves its right hand slowly as it is telling story.