Category: Travel

Taken on vacation trips

Symphony Of Lights

Apologies for the recent lack of updates to the photoblog as I have been overseas on vacation in Hong Kong… Expect to see some new pictures that I took during my trip!

The above picture was taken at the Avenue Of Stars located at the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. “A Symphony of Lights” is a multi-media light and sound show that runs daily at 8pm, showcasing the key buildings along the waterfront of the Victoria Harbour. Ideally, the picture should have been taken during dusk hours to achieve a brilliant, deep blue in the skies. However, since the sun sets early before 6pm in the winter season, I had to make do with darker skies. I love the patterns cast by the brilliant search beams and lasers fired from atop the buildings.

Life Is But A Walking Shadow


“Life Is But A Walking Shadow” … This is actually a quote from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth which one of my old friends would used to quote very often whenever he was in a philosophical mood. This became a theme for some of the silhouette pictures I took with my Powershot G3. This particular one was taken at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia in September last year. I like the effect of the clean silhouettes juxtaposed against the patterned pavement.

Pelican Gossip


Australia remains as one of my favourite holiday destinations for photography… My visit to both Sydney/New South Wales and Perth/Western Australia last year were fruitful photographic trips. The above picture of pelicans preening their feathers by the harbour was taken at Kiama, south of Sydney. Waking about at about 5.30am in the morning, we encoutered a large flock of pelicans perched by the waterside grooming their feathers. Taking cautious steps towards them, we were pleasantly surprised that they ignored us totally as we snapped picture after picture of them, squawking away in their own chattery gossip.