(Ricoh GX200)A recent conversation with a chatty medical laboratory scientist who is an experienced photographer may confirm the author's opinion that Hong Kong, or any city with a comparably easily accessible countryside, is a great place for photography. An animal in the scene, said the scientist friend moving back from the States, will give a better picture. He will have problem with that in Hong Kong for the chance to see an animal in the countryside, except for some stray cows, is not a lot above zero. But then if he means a subject to make the scene lively, he will surely come across a person of two even in the remotest village of this city.
Hong Kong has some beautiful country parks, which are large pieces of areas excluded from development, while the busiest streets are either full of activities or in the old areas unruly scenes. All present great chances for photographers.
As for the author, Hong Kong is best for doing street scenes, the most readily available genre for any photographer to do on a daily basis. Street shots open to the viewers a window to peek into other people's lives, of which the most revealing are shots of the common folks. Human activities have a charming, always intriguing and down-to-earth quality. On the last element, the author has often noticed what George Eliot has put with lucidity in Adam Bede, her works about common folks:
I have seen many and excellent matron, who could have never in her best days have been handsome, and yet she had a packet of yellow love-letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks. And I believe there have been plenty of young heroes, of middle stature and feeble beards, who have felt quite sure they could never love anything more insignificant than a Diana, and yet have found themselves in middle life happily settled with a wife who waddles.
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