Another shot taken close to midnight. So if it is very cloudy, the reflected light in a city like Hong Kong is so much that the sky actually has the right illumination, just as within blue hour...I want just want to dilute my bold statement I made here :) www.flickr.com/photos/move_lachine/8181704629

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So this is the view from my last appartment. After so many viewpoints it is hard for me to decide if it is worthwhile or not. I mean you see some signature skyline elements of Hong Kong, but somehow it feels just like any Hong Kong image to me right now...

It is so hard to balance the bright street lights and the ambient light around the buildings...I hope it is easyer with a higher resolution image on my real computer...just tweeking around a bit on my laptop right now...
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Today it was so cloudy, that you could not see the IFC II and on top of that it was even too windy for the large format camera (see the other side on my facebook page: www.facebook.com/ThomasBirkeUrbanPhotography
So I could just take some shots that I have already taken in 2010 ( www.flickr.com/photos/move_lachine/4842952029 ).

What I find a bit disturbing is that the colour always comes out different depending on the medium. My aspiration is to shift colours in a way that they resemble a representation of my perception at the time of the shot, but you can see that the digital photo of today yielded a totally different result than the analog on Ektar 100 in 2010. Got to work on my perception I guess.

This is a stitch of two vertically shifted exposures.
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This is really one of the best locations I could find on the Kowloon side, I wonder why I didn't find it before. I first saw it here www.flickr.com/photos/21437472@N07/4387189534 .It is a reservoir on Tai Po Road just behind the Mei Ho House, which is the last remaining Mark II Type building - from the starting era of Hong Kong public housing. Anyway, the view is spectacular, not blocked by trees and you can see all of Kowloon. If there just was not such a bad weather with such low visibility. But I can be happy anyway, as it at least stopped raining right with the beginning of twilight.

It is a stitch of two horizontally shifted exposures.
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So today I switched Islands, from Central to Kowloon. And it is a little bit like from Manhattan to Brooklyn, just more dramatic. All of the posh office towers in Central and all the order, and then the real life and absolutely organic city growth in the heart of kowloon, Sham Shui Po. It's incredible to see how the buildings don't look built, but really evolved over time. Graffitti and all these antennas, makeshift balconies and illegal rooftop dwellings. I absolutely am looking for this crazyness in urban development :)
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