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A trip to Birmingham which was my first reminded me of Hong Kong. I hopped off the train running in a rather "unBritish" fashion (=punctually) at the Birmingham New Street Station and landed at the shopping district resembling the busiest ones in Hong Kong.
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It was bustling with shoppers and activities but without the hectic thrust among the throng as in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the big chain stores were just too familiar to me.
Window-shopping was fun though.
So I made it neither much a shopping trip nor a photographic one. The skyline there was way better than in Coventry. But the sky was grey, which was great for doing portraits.
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^A tip on freezing people walking if you don't know is people walking past horizontally can be frozen at 1/30s and towards at half that speed. Any shutter speed lower than recommended will blur the movement.
With a bit wandering I ended up in Temple Row where a Louis Vuitton shop occupied a corner store. I went in to witness the rising economic power of the Chinese comrades who were the only patrons in the shop. They must have made up such an important portion of the LV profits that there was a specific Mandarin-spoken salesperson to serve them.
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