A Friday Said to be Good

(Taken with GX200, edited in PhotoScape for the flare)

Today is Good Friday, a day when the Christians remember the nailing of Jesus Christ on the cross some thousands of years ago. Religion is something which cannot be seen or touched but trusted. Where are we from and where are we going to after this life have been the eternal questions asked by believers and non-believers alike.

So, where are we going to?

(The road is leading to where? I thougt to mself when I took this photo on a hill at night)

For a lot of times, we may think that things are under control in our hands. But we just even don't know what is going to happen to us the next minute. I have a friend who celebrated for his newborn one day but cried over the baby's loss of over 50% of the degestive system the other day for no apparent reason. It happened some years ago. He is still facing the consquences with an iron mind. Another friend of mine in Australia lost her son who died after falling from height at home. She won't have expected it the minute before, would she?

(The warm glow of the cross and the environment colours in late evening that day caught my attention. This is an old chruch building tucked away in a rather quiet neighbourhood which used to be a residential area popular among the British migrated to Hong Kong from their homeland)

So when someone argue with cogent reasons against Jesus Christ, I doubt if that person really knows that religion is something to be trusted. If God is the one that a person can know by just reasoning, that god will be no smarter than the person is.

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A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

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