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Seat With View

(Leica D-Lux 5) Enjoy!

Four People

(Leica D-Lux 5) Enjoy!

And the Winner is ... Controversy

(Leica D-Lux 5) Seldom has it been that winning works cherry-picked for a competition are free of controversy, surely save ourselves being the winner. How many times we have seen the winning works in a photo contest too amateurish, off the mark or exceedingly post-processed is anybody’s guess. Now, there are two new fodders for the photography community to carry on the relay of mockery. This guy and this guy won the inaugural WYNG Masters Award for Photography on the theme of poverty for a prize of HK$125,000 each or, in a common international photography language, roughly two Leica M Monochroms (Well I wonder if the "s" can be suffixed this way). You could be thinking, well, lots of street photographers out there are way better than the first one and, wait a minute; did the other winner set up a CCTV for the eerie peeking shots? First, there is a thing called committee effect which is forever present in an adjudicator panel and shall be blamed for an always balanced c...

Office Politics

(Leica X1) Menacing attitude meeting sweet-dream quietude.  Aiyah, isn't this our common trick to negatively engage the office's higher commander?