Don Ellis
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Taken in Western District, Hong Kong -- specifically Sheung Wan, a rustic neighborhood and one of the older districts of Hong Kong that is just next door to the island's Central Business District with its towering banks and skyscrapers and vast, gleaming shopping malls with their designer-label shops.
Hong Kong viewed from the air is laid out almost like a department store -- find one hardware shop and you'll probably find many. The same is true for marble, glass, coffins, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, watches and anything else you can think of.
The Sheung Wan District is home to tiny wholesale warehouses and tea shops (selling wildly expensive tea and crockery) and snake shops and Chinese medicine shops and dried fish shops and a whole line of small stalls just big enough for one person to sit in and make business cards and Chinese chops -- in a word, exotic. I loved it and lived there for six years, from 1986 to 1992.
Leela and I wandered back a year or so ago and saw these fish drying on the other side of the curb (red brick) in the street on double-yellow lines that normally mean no stopping or parking... but perhaps that's just for cars.
Canon G9, in my pre-DP2 days. Click image for larger image.
Don
Hong Kong viewed from the air is laid out almost like a department store -- find one hardware shop and you'll probably find many. The same is true for marble, glass, coffins, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, watches and anything else you can think of.
The Sheung Wan District is home to tiny wholesale warehouses and tea shops (selling wildly expensive tea and crockery) and snake shops and Chinese medicine shops and dried fish shops and a whole line of small stalls just big enough for one person to sit in and make business cards and Chinese chops -- in a word, exotic. I loved it and lived there for six years, from 1986 to 1992.
Leela and I wandered back a year or so ago and saw these fish drying on the other side of the curb (red brick) in the street on double-yellow lines that normally mean no stopping or parking... but perhaps that's just for cars.
Canon G9, in my pre-DP2 days. Click image for larger image.
Don
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