GX GARNERINGS

(Leica D-Lux 5) Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread And having once turned round walks on Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Poet in The Ancient Mariner

(Ricoh GRD4) Everything around the base camp of the occupiers at Admiralty is so still and motionless that one can almost smell the chilling smell of an imminent storm wafting in the air. Two big trucks were seen quite near the area this morning.  A police enforcement order  additional to an injunction per private application has been granted by the court.  It is reported in today's newspaper that Judge Henry Litton, Non-Permanent Judge of Hong Kong's Final Court of Appeal, questioned the technicality of the court order at a law conference yesterday. The Honourable Henry Litton was "mystified" over the court order. His views were shared by the ex-law faculty dean of the Hong Kong University questioned. Link to the news report: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1638381/top-court-judge-questions-odd-injunction

(Ricoh GRD4) The Chinese characters on the yellow flyer reads, I want genuine universal suffrage. Well, is this becoming real only in the parallel universe?

(Leica D-Lux 5) No, she didn’t. I just run into her working around the base camp at Admiralty this evening. Her face has become so recognisable after her arrest.

(Leica X1) The pro-democracy protesters have braved all the challenges carrying on with the Umbrella Movement into the third week.  Visiting the occupied area has become a routine for lots of people.  Seeing the younger faces full of life, hopes and determination is as encouraging as worrying to the older generations who experienced the horror in the history of modern China and the 1989 massacre in Tianamen Square.  It is so.  It is so.

(Ricoh GRD4) My GRD4 and Lr5 are up and running, but our city is very sick. Sick, very sick of the patronising top officials unlashed by the dictators. There are lots of photo opportunity around. But as anyone sane living in the city, one almost can’t bear the intense power and uncertainty from the silence and calmness of the protesters in the occupied street while shooting. Just this afternoon, it was reported that seemingly concerted efforts between the law enforcement and the suspected triad- and Mainlanders-affiliated anti-protesters were made to remove barricades and stormed the occupied sites. At night, protesters started to fortify. This is as worrying as saddening.