Trip down home lane

Back in April, before the Heavens opened up and poured a ton of water over Hong Kong, the weather was pretty fine.  We had lots of Sun without it being unbearably hot.  So naturally, we took the opportunity to wander down the mountain road where we live and grab some pictures.

Bananas (no, not you)

There are actually lots of banana trees on the road near our home.  Most of them are still very green but there were clearly some bananas which were ripe as they had been cut from the tree.

Does anyone know what part of the banana tree this is?

In addition to banana trees, there are lots of other types of fauna near our home as well.  Some of them are just the ordinary trees but there were some which had interesting shapes and colours.

This isn't a trick of the light - the tips of these are actually lighter

Didn't see any worms but they are clearly there based on that leaf

Gordon and the sports day

After several "arty" pictures, it's time to go back to showing pictures of the kids!  Huzzah!!

The event itself is surprisingly big although this shouldn't really be a surprise given that the school now has 4 separate locations.

Lookit all the kids!

As you can expect with a sports event targeted at kids, everyone got a medal.  Gordon was still delighted to get his though.

Winner!

After the opening ceremony, the kids get to split up and take part in various games and activities.  With the number of kids, a lot of time is actually spent queuing up.

Go push that ..,. thing - yeah!

What is done really well is that many of the games actually let the parents get involved as well.  As you can imagine, the kids love being able to play with daddy and mummy.

That baseball cap falls off about 1 sec later

They even had "proper" sports events such as the long jump.

Picture taken after the long jump - Gordon is happy with his "record"

Playing around with my camera - May 2015 - Part 2

This was a picture taken in Ma Wan.  We were taking the kids to the Solar Tower camp there and came across this flower on the route.

Ma Wan is a great place for pictures of flowers.  Lots of greenery etc.  There were actually quite a lot of these particular flowers dotted around the place but this was the only one which was standing on its own which made it more convenient to take a photo of.

A loner - just like me. :)

Playing around with my camera - May 2015

Some more playing around with tiltshift photography.

This is a picture taken from a sports ground.  Again, its amazing how much this looks like a picture of a miniature sports stand.

Da da da da daaaa da

Playing around with my camera

Back to playing around with my camera.

In this case, I'm playing around with tiltshift photography.  Tiltshift photography is a technique where the end picture looks like its taken of a miniature landscape.  Pretty cool effect and can result in some nice pictures when done properly.

View from near my home

Gordon ponders the meaning of life

Managed to capture this picture of Gordon.

I have no idea what he is thinking but he looks as if he is pondering something fairly heavy.  His navel perhaps?

The answer is 42

Lunar New Year 2015 - Playing with my camera

First off, a quick note to let you know that I will be changing my blogging schedule starting from next week.  Instead of posting 3 updates across my blogs on Sunday, I will be using the below schedule.  In brief, this will allow me to spread out my posts as well as work load.

• Meister Hobbies - Sunday
• Meister Speaks - Tuesday
• Meister Games - Thursday

And now - back to your regular scheduled program!

This should actually have gone into last weeks post but for some reason, I forgot to include.  Another picture taken while playing around with my camera.  This was actually taken at the hotel lobby.

In case, you are wondering, these are chocolate coins.  What I liked about the picture though is the amount of "shiny" that comes out.  Pretty cool.

So shiny