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Photography

My travel photos, mostly taken on a Fujifilm X-S20.

Dense high-rise towers climb a dark, forested hillside at dusk above a busy road with a sign pointing to Mid-Levels and Central
Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
A red Hong Kong taxi on an empty multi-lane road beneath flyovers, with blue direction signs for Western Reclamation, Central and Sheung Wan, and a large government billboard above
Central, Hong Kong The billboard overhead, dated 15 April 2026, ties the 15th Five-Year Plan to "development and security."
A double-decker bus wrapped in a government advertisement passes under grey skies, with the Chinese and Hong Kong flags on a building behind and a figure holding an umbrella in the foreground
Hong Kong The bus ad reads "Uphold the foundation of One Country, make good use of the advantages of Two Systems."
A red double-decker bus blurs past a street corner lined with pink and beige tenement buildings covered in air-conditioning units
Hong Kong
A mosaic-tiled stairwell entrance beside a metal shutter, with a flyer on the wall and Chinese characters handwritten on a white pillar
Hong Kong The graffiti on the pillar is a line from the Heart Sutra, 遠離顛倒夢想, "far from upside-down dreams."
A closed shopfront of pale blue panels under grey pressed-metal tiles, with a small red plaque reading 生意興隆
Hong Kong The red plaque reads "prosperous business," 生意興隆.
Rows of rusting crane barges and a pile of scrap metal moored in dark water, with high-rise housing blocks behind under an overcast sky
Hong Kong
Visitors in silhouette at a dim museum exhibit showing posters from the Hong Kong flag and emblem design competition and a Basic Law poster, one person photographing it with a phone
Hong Kong Posters from the competition to design the Hong Kong SAR flag and emblem, and one reading "The Basic Law matters to you and the next generation."
A nearly dark station platform, lit only by a row of ceiling lights and a glowing arrivals screen in the distance
Hong Kong Hong Kong MTR Platform of the East Rail Line. The screen displays upcoming train departures to Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau, the border checkpoints between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
A dark street front at night lit by shop signs, including a duck blood vermicelli soup restaurant, a crab-roe noodle shop, and two glowing blue signs advertising psychological counselling
Nanjing · May 2026 Between the noodle shops, two lit signs: "For depression, come to Shenkang" and "Xiaoran Psychological Counselling, 20+ years focused on mental health."
A dim fourth-floor electronics market hall with rows of laptops on display counters, bright advertising screens and a few vendors
Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen · June 2026
A white-tiled back corridor with a green exit sign, a red stall sign reading 国货耗材 13C124A, and cardboard boxes stacked in the next room
Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen · June 2026 Behind the market floor. The red sign reads "domestic consumables."
A man pushes a cart piled high with flattened cardboard past the SEG electronics market, under a blue banner reading "Huaqiangbei of the World, New Home of AI"
Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen · June 2026 The banner outside the SEG market announces "Huaqiangbei of the World, New Home of AI."
A red sign on a bookstore wall reading 您已进入重点监控区域, next to a framed poster of the Core Socialist Values
Shenzhen · June 2026 The red sign reads "You have entered a key surveillance area." Beside it is a poster of the Core Socialist Values.
A shelf of orange Lu Xun paperbacks in a bookstore, with a red banner about Xi Jinping Thought visible in the background
Shenzhen · June 2026 A shelf of Lu Xun beneath a banner for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Motorbike riders blur through a crosswalk at dusk on a tree-lined boulevard, as two men cross behind them and a car waits at a red light
Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street, Ho Chi Minh City · June 2026